The National Book Critics Circle Award

Fiction Winner

• Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday)

Fiction Finalists

• A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne (Morrow)
• Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector (Harmony: Crown)
• J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Viking)
• David Gates, The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories (Knopf)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (Knopf)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Jane Brox, Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History (Beacon)
• John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Norton)
• Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory (Norton)
• Jean-Paul Kauffmann, The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena (Four Walls Eight Windows)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Henry Wiencek, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White (St. Martin’s)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Vol. II: Darker Reflections (Pantheon)
• Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (Random)
• Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf)
• Susan E. Tifft & Alex S. Jones, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times (Little, Brown)

Poetry Winner

• Ruth Stone, Ordinary Words (Paris Press)

Poetry Finalists

• Rafael Campo, Diva (Duke Univ. Press)
• Tory Dent, HIV, Mon Amour (Sheep Meadow)
• Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks (Norton)
• Susan Kingsolving, Dailies & Rushes (Grove)

Criticism Winner

• Jorge Louis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions (Viking)

Criticism Finalists

• Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order (Cassell)
• William Logan, Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry (Univ. Pr. of Florida)
• Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets (Knopf)
• David Shields, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season (Crown)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Benjamin Schwarz

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

• Pauline Kael
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti