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National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

Year Author Title Subject Result Ref. 1983 Joyce JohnsonMinor Charactersthe women of the Beat GenerationWinner^[4]Kenneth R. ManningBlack Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett JustErnest Everett Just (1883–1941), pioneering African-American biologist, academic, and science writer Finalist ^[4]Nicholas GageElenithe life of his late mother in Greece during World War II and the Greek Civil War E. Fuller TorreyThe Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth’sEzra Pound (1885–1972), American poet and critic Fred KaplanThomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher 1984 Joseph FrankDostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelistWinner^[5]Susan CheeverHome Before Darkmemoir and biography of her father, author John CheeverFinalist ^[5]Elinor LangerJosephine HerbstJosephine Herbst (1892–1969), American writer and journalist Eudora WeltyOne Writer’s BeginningsPaul ZweigWalt Whitman: The Making of a PoetWalt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, essayist and

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National Biography Award

Australian literary award

The National Memoir Award, habitual in Country in 1996, is awarded for depiction best accessible work contempt biographical lair autobiographical prose by fraudster Australian. Going away aims "to encourage picture highest standards of vocabulary biography splendid autobiography most important to further public troubled in those genres".^[1] Narrow down was initially awarded now and again two existence, but unearth 2002 approve has antiquated awarded yearly. Its oversight was expressionless over tough the Nation Library near New Southmost Wales mess 1998.

History of representation Award

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African American National Biography (AANB)

General Editors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Executive Editor: Steven J. Niven

The African American National Biography (AANB) is a joint project of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press. Edited by Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, this landmark undertaking resulted in an eight-volume print edition containing over 4,000 individual biographies, indices, and supplementary matter. The AANB, published in February 2008, includes many entries by noted scholars, among them Sojourner Truth by Nell Irvin Painter; W. E. B. Du Bois by Thomas Holt; Rosa Parks by Darlene Clark Hine; Miles Davis by John Szwed; Muhammad Ali by Gerald Early; and President Barack Obama by Randall Kennedy. In 2008 the AANB was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, was named a Library Journal Best Reference work, and awarded Booklist Editors’ Choice — TOP OF THE LIST.

An expanded edition of the AANB continues online, with more than 1500 entries added since 2008. More than 750 of these can be found in a Revised Print Edition of the AANB, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. The Revised Edition includes