NBCC Board member and biography committee chair Benjamin Moser announced the 2011 winner for biography:
John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (Penguin Press)
Finalists are:
Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution (Little, Brown)
Paul Hendrickson, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 (Knopf)
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking)
Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Belknap Press: Harvard University Press)