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
1993 Winners & Finalists
Fiction Winner
- Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying (Knopf)
Fiction Finalists
- E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News (Scribners)
- Bobbie Ann Mason, Feather Crowns (Harper)
- Frances Sherwood, Vindication (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet (Dalkey Archive Press)
General Nonfiction Winner
- Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began (Pantheon)
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Rosemary Mahoney, Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age (Houghton Mifflin)
- George B. Schaller, The Last Panda (Chicago)
- Russ Rymer, Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From Silence (Harper)
- David Remnick, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Random House)
Biography/Autobiography Winner
- Edmund White, Genet (Knopf)
Biography/Autobiography Finalists
- James Merrill, A Different Person (Knopf)
- James Miller, The Passion of Michael Foucault (Simon & Schuster)
- Alice Kaplan, French Lessons (Chicago)
- David Levering Lewis, DuBois: Biography of a Race (Holt)
Poetry Winner
- Mark Doty, My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press)
Poetry Finalists
- Donald Hall, The Museum of Clear Ideas (Ticknor & Fields)
- Linda Hogan, The Book of Medicines (Coffee House Press)
- Audre Lorde, The Marvelous Arithmetic of Distance (W.W. Norton)
- Jack Marshall, Sesame (Coffee House Press)
Criticism Winner
- John Dizikes, Opera in America: A Cultural History (Yale)
Criticism Finalists
- Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen’s Throat (Poseidon)
- Geoffrey O’Brien, The Phantom Empire (Norton)
- Mark Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Harvard)
- Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952-1992 (Random House)
Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award Winner
- Brigitte Frase