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	The Book Award Annals
		Peruse the Pulitzer Prize annals, the Booker Prize annals, and the National Book Critics Circle Award annals.
		Book recommendations from friends are nice, and buying books with interesting pictures on the cover is okay, but what if you had access to a list of books that had been read and ranked by experts?
		Each book listing contains only the information necessary to someone browsing a book list looking for some reading pleasure�a picture of the cover (yes, I always look at the pictures first), list of honors, a synopsis, and the most available editions on Amazon.com.
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	The National Book Foundation
		On March 15, 1950, a consortium of book publishing groups sponsored the first annual National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
		Since then, The National Book Awards have become the nation's preeminent literary prizes, and The National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner the most important event on our literary calendar.
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	www.nationalbook.org /nba.html

	Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter N
		This organization, made up of book critics and book review editors, exists to raise the standards of book reviewing and book criticism and to foster public appreciation of literature and book criticism.
		The National Writers Association has two categories of members: professional members, who have either been published in national magazines, had a book published on a royalty basis, or had a stageplay, screenplay or teleplay produced; and associate members who have a serious interest in writing.
		Books written for children (excluding picture books) are divided into two groups according to the ages of the readers: novels written for children younger than twelve years of age and those written for children older than twelve years of age.
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	National Book Critics Circles nominees / Poetry csmonitor.com
		National Book Critics Circles nominees / Poetry
		The poetry finalists for this year's National Book Critics Circle awards have very little in common, at least on the surface.
		In "Impossible Dream," he writes: "I was reading a book about pleasure,/ how you have to glide through it/ without clinging,/ like an arrow/ passing through a target,/ coming out the other side and going on." A few more moments of such simple brilliance would have really lit this collection.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0224/p17s01-bogn.html

	National Book Critics Circle Awards
		The National Book Critics Circle Awards winners are chosen by more than 700 book reviewers.
		Every year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English.
		The National Book Critics Circle Awards were established in 1981 to honor the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography - autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
	www.literature-awards.com /national_book_critics_circle.htm

	The Book Award Annals
		Peruse the Pulitzer Prize annals, the Booker Prize annals, and the National Book Critics Circle Award annals.
		An alphabetical listing of book awards is always available in the menu to the left.
		Each book listing contains only the information necessary to someone browsing a book list looking for some reading pleasure�a picture of the cover (yes, I always look at the pictures first), list of honors, a synopsis, and the most available editions on Amazon.com.
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	National Book Critics Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Book Critics Circle ( NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers.
		Every year, it makes an award, the National Book Critics Circle Award to the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
		This page was last modified 19:56, 3 Apr 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle

	National Book Critics Circle Awards -- ReadersRead.com
		The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, consists of nearly 700 active book reviewers, interested in communicating with one another about common concerns.
		In recent years, the NBCC has made efforts to become a truly national organization by offering forums in locations outside of New York.
		The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
	www.readersread.com /awards/nbcc.htm

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	National Book Critics Circle Award
		The National Book Critics Circle consists of more than 700 book reviewers.
		Since 1981, the NBCC's centerpiece has been annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography - autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
		Regular voting membership ($40 a year) is open to professional book review editors and book reviewers.
	www.literature-awards.com /national_book_critics_circle_awa.htm

	CNN.com - Jones' 'Known World' wins book award - Mar. 5, 2004
		Edward P. Jones, winner of this year's National Book Critics Circle fiction prize, took 10 years to write his novel and felt so embarrassed about the delay that when he finally finished he couldn't bear to tell his agent, Eric Simonoff, on the phone.
		The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a not-for-profit organization of about 750 book editors and critics.
		Jones, 53, won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1993 and was a finalist for the National Book Award for his first book, "Lost in the City," a collection of short stories about life in 1950s-1970s Washington, where Jones grew up.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/books/03/05/bookcriticsawards.ap/index.html

	The National Book Foundation
		Since then, The National Book Awards have become the nation's preeminent literary prizes, and The National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner the most important event on our literary calendar.
		On March 15, 1950, a consortium of book publishing groups sponsored the first annual National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
		The Winners, selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre, receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture.
	www.nationalbook.org /nba.html

	THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY: 365 Fifth
		Hacker's many awards include a National Book Award, two National Book Critics' Circle Award nominations, an NEA grant, an Ingram-Merrill grant, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
		Hacker has published more than twelve books of poetry including Presentation Piece, 1974; Separations, 1976; Taking Notice, 1980; Assumptions, 1985; Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons, 1986; Going Back to the River, 1990; Winter Numbers: Poems, 1994; Squares and Courtyards, 2000; First Cities: Collected Early Poems, 2003; and D esesperanto, 2003.
		Her poems, essays, and translations of other poets have been published in Poetry Daily Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Poetry London, Clarion, Commonweal, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker.
	www.gc.cuny.edu /365_Web/2004_may/hacker.htm

	About Paul
		A member of the National Book Critics Circle since 1985, Paul's reviews of literary fiction and nonfiction have been published by The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Chicago Sun-Times Book Week, Detroit News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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		He is an author and co-author, creative editor, novelist, anthologist, publishing consultant, magazine writer, essayist, book critic, literary, film and television agent, and public speaker.
	www.mccarthycreative.com /paul.htm

	Athens Literary Festival -----Featured Authors-----
		Baby of the Family was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1989, and in 2001 was chosen by the Georgia Center for the Book as one of the Top 25 Books Every Georgian Should Read.
		His first book of poems, All Roads at Once, appeared in 1976, followed by A Call in the Midst of a Crowd (1978), The Various Light (1980), and Notes from a Child of Paradise (1984), all published by Viking, and The West Door (1988), and Autobiographies (1992), published by Penguin.
		Some of his other books are Romancing Reality: Homo Viator and the Scandal Called Beauty (St. Augustine Press, 2002), Making: The Proper Habit of Our Being: Essays Speculative, Reflective, Argumentative (2000), and The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and the Recovery of Reality (Spence, 1999).
	www.athensliteraryfestival.org /authors.htm

	Powell's Books - Award Winners - National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
		Together, over 700 book reviewers chose the National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are offered in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
		Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso.
		Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country, with a new companion CD from Rounder Records.
	www.powells.com /prizes/nbcca_nonfiction.html

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		During the 19th century, many new states were added to the original thirteen as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions.
		After long debate, this was supplanted by the Constitution of a more centralized federal government in 1789.
		Two of the major traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the American Civil War ( 1861 - 65) and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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	Encyclopedia: National Book Critics Circle Award
		Every year, it makes an award, the National Book Critics Circle Award to the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
		The National Book Critics Circle ( NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/National-Book-Critics-Circle-Award

	Amazon.com: Welcome
		Here's a list of books, movies, and CDs (including Barenaked for the Holidays by the Barenaked Ladies) that help us appreciate the lighter side of the season.
		The 10-disc set delivers 35 hours of extra features, including 100 new featurettes and 2 new commentaries for each film, making this collection a must for under the tree (or a really big stocking).
		This critically acclaimed epic trilogy follows the quest undertaken by the hobbit, Frodo Baggins, and his fellowship of companions to save Middle-earth by destroying the One Ring and defeating the...
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	Powell's Books - Award Winners - National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
		Together, over 700 book reviewers chose the National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are offered in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
		Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso.
		Powell's Books - Award Winners - National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
	www.powells.com /prizes/nbcca_nonfiction.html

	Library of Congress Publishes Historic Documentary Color Photographs of America
		"The color work by the FSA and OWI photographers remains little known and not enough appreciated," said National Book Critics Circle award-winner Paul Hendrickson who wrote the book�s introduction.
		The book is available for $35 in bookstores nationwide and in the Library�s Sales Shop.
		"Bound for Glory," a 192-page hardcover book with 175 color photographs, includes a Library of Congress reference number for each of the photographs, which enables readers to search for the specific image online or order photographic prints from the Library�s Photoduplication Service ( www.loc.gov/preserv/pds).
	lcweb.loc.gov /today/pr/2004/04-100.html

	index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA194558&publication=libraryjournal
		The National Book Critics Circle has released the names of the authors in the running for the 2001 awards.
		"We are very pleased by the diversity of publishers, and especially the number of university press titles on this year's list," said NBCC Board Member and Vice President for Awards Rebecca Miller, also an associate editor in Library Journal's Book Review.
		In addition the group will present its Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing to Michael Gorra and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award to Jason Epstein.
	libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com /index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA194558&publication=libraryjournal

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	Barnes & Noble.com - National Book Critics Circle Award
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	Bookwire
		A listing of all National Book Award winners since 1969, maintained by Wordsworth Books of Cambridge, MA.
		The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America gives an annual book award for outstanding books published each year which extend our understanding of the root causes of bigotry and of the range of options we as humans have in constructing alternative, shared power relationships.
		The Boston Book Review's Second Annual award winners for Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry.
	www.bookwire.com /bookwire/otherbooks/Book-Awards.html

	The William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition
		Adelaide was an early Chair of the Executive Board, and among the first to recognize the value of a national literary competition operated out of New Orleans, knowing, of course, that if such a venture were successful, it could only enhancethe image of the city as an important intellectual and cultural destination.
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	National Book Critics Circle Award - Christchurch City Libraries
		National Book Critics Circle (United States), founded in 1974, consists of nearly 700 active book reviewers, interested in communicating with one another about common concerns.
		National Book Critics Circle Award - Christchurch City Libraries
		The centrepiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in five categories:
	library.christchurch.org.nz /LiteraryPrizes/BookCritics

	Athens Literary Festival -----Featured Authors-----
		He has won the Ohioana Poetry Award, the Larry Levis Editors’ Prize from Missouri Review, the Open Voice Poetry Award from The Writers’ Voice, the State Street Press Chapbook Competition, and Ohio Arts Council Grant, and he was the 1994 Georgia Author of the Year.
		His first book of poems, All Roads at Once, appeared in 1976, followed by A Call in the Midst of a Crowd (1978), The Various Light (1980), and Notes from a Child of Paradise (1984), all published by Viking, and The West Door (1988), and Autobiographies (1992), published by Penguin.
		Baby of the Family was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1989, and in 2001 was chosen by the Georgia Center for the Book as one of the Top 25 Books Every Georgian Should Read.
	www.athensliteraryfestival.org /authors.htm

	About the Book Contents About the Author
		The Book Sense Book of the Year, Booker Prize, Nobel Prize, PEN/Faulkner Award, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
		National and international events, regional events, etc. Do you have any idea how many book events take place around the country each year?
		The lists of award winners presented here is your guide to the gold in the major genres.
	www.abouttheauthor.com /thebook_contents.htm

	Wild Writing Women - Salons
		The book includes interviews with Bill Bryson, Frances Mayes, Paul Theroux, Peter Matthiessen, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, Isabel Allende, and Simon Winchester, among many others.
		Michael’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and several national magazines.
		In January, award–winning author Michael Shapiro will discuss “The Art of Interviewing,” a skill he put to good use in his most recent book, A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Lives, Craft and Inspiration (2004 Travelers' Tales).
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