Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism.
The National Book Critics Circle Award
1992 Winners & Finalists
Fiction Winner
- Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (Knopf)
Fiction Finalists
- Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
- Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water (Dutton)
- Richard Price, Clockers (Houghton Mifflin)
- Robert Stone, Outerbridge Reach (Ticknor & Fields)
General Nonfiction Winner
- Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire (University of Chicago Press)
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Michael D. Coe, Breaking the Maya Code (Thames & Hudson)
- Donald Katz, Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America (HarperCollins)
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (University of California Press)
- Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (Harvard University Press)
Biography/Autobiography Winner
- Carol Brightman, Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World (Clarkson N. Potter)
Biography/Autobiography Finalists
- Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 (Addison-Wesley)
- Paul Hendrickson, Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott (Knopf)
- Walter Isaacson, Kissinger (Simon & Schuster)
- David McCullough, Truman (Simon & Schuster)
Poetry Winner
- Hayden Carruth, Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 (Copper Canyon Press)
Poetry Finalists
- David Ferry, Gilgamesh (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Maxine Kumin, Looking for Luck (W.W. Norton)
- Sharon Olds, The Father (Knopf)
- K.C. Williams, A Dream of Mine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Criticism Winner
- Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remand America (Simon & Schuster)
Criticism Finalists
- Frederick Crews, The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy (Random House)
- Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (Graywolf Press)
- Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War (Doubleday)
- Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (Random House)
Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award Winner
- Elizabeth Ward
Ivan Sandrof Award Winner
- Gregory Rabassa