He is a graduate of Yale and Oxford, and lives in Chicago. The recipient of the 2017 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing is Charles Finch. Charles Finch is the author of the Charles Lenox mysteries, including The Inheritance and A Beautiful Blue Death, which was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2007. Finalists for the prize are nominated by more than 700 voting NBCC members nationwide, and the recipient is decided by a volunteer committee of NBCC members. He has previously been honored with the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Wallace Stegner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.Ĭarmen Maria Machado’s debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf), is the recipient of the fourth annual John Leonard Prize, established to recognize outstanding first books in any genre and named in honor of founding NBCC member John Leonard. 4: On the Writing Process.” His lifetime contribution to letters and book culture include his pioneering work in the fields of journalism and creative nonfiction his explorations of widely varying topics, including science, sports, and the environment and his mentorship of countless young writers and journalists. He is the author of more than 30 books, beginning with “A Sense of Where You Are,” published in 1965 his most recent book is “Draft No. Born in 1931 in Princeton, New Jersey, John McPhee is a journalist, essayist, author, and longtime journalism professor at Princeton University. The recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award is John McPhee. The tickets, $50 for NBCC members when purchased in advance and $75 to the general public, benefit the NBCC, the awards, and the work that the NBCC does year round to promote books, critics, and writers nationwide. The NBCC hosts a fundraising reception following the awards on March 15. A reading by the finalists will take place the evening before the awards, also at the New School.
The ceremony is free and open to the public. The awards will be presented on Maat the New School in New York City. The National Book Critics Circle Awards, begun in 1975 and considered among the most prestigious in American letters, are the sole prizes bestowed by a jury of working critics and book-review editors. The winners of three additional prizes (The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, The John Leonard Prize and Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing) were also announced. New York, NY (January 22, 2018)-Today the NBCC announced its 30 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the outstanding books of 2017. Kate Tuttle, NBCC President, BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR 2017 AWARDS