National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners

On Thursday, March 4, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced the winners of its 2003 book awards at a ceremony at the New School in New York City. The Fiction prize was awarded to Edward P. Jones for The Known World (Amistad Press). Jones' novel was a September/October 2003 Book Sense 76 pick.

Other winners included: Paul Hendrickson's Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy (Vintage) for General Nonfiction; William Taubman's Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Norton) in the Biography/Autobiography category; Susan Stewart's Columbarium (University of Chicago Press) for Poetry; and Rebecca Solnit's River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Viking) for Criticism.

Studs Terkel received NBCC's Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing went to Scott McLemee, a senior writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education.