National Book Critics Circle Awards Presented to Yaddo Writers 1975-2012

CRITICISM

Meyer Schapiro, Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2), 1978
Helen Vendler, Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets, 1980
Virgil Thompson, A Virgil Thompson Reader, 1981
William Gass, Habituations of the Word: Essays, 1985
William Gass, Finding a Form, 1996
Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century, 1998
William Gass, Tests of Time, 2002
William Logan, The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin, 2005

FICTION

John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever, 1978
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, 1984
Philip Roth, The Counterlife, 1987
Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories, 1988
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn, 1999
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss, 2006
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Good Squad, 2010

GENERAL NONFICTION

Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, 1980
Jonathan Raban, Bad Land, 1996
Phillip Gourevich, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, 1998
Andrew Solomon, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, 2012

POETRY

Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III, 1976
Robert Lowell, Day by Day, 1977
Donald Hall, That One Day, 1988
Hayden Carruth, Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991, 1992
Mark Doty, My Alexandria, 1993
Mark Rudman, Rider, 1994
Mary Jo Bang, Elegy, 2007
Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains, 2011

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters, 1983
Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1984
Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, 1985
Richard Elman, Oscar Wilde, 1988
Philip Roth, Patrimony: A True Story, 1991
Edmund White, Genet, 1993
Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind, 1998

NONA BALAKIAN CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING

Laurie Stone, 1995
Maureen N. McLane, 2002
Joan Acocella, 2009

IVAN SANDROF AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN PUBLISHING

Donald Keene, 1990
Elizabeth Hardwick, 1995
Alfred Kazin, 1995
Bill Henderson, 2005