Critics Honor Best Books of 1992

Five books published in 1992 have received the 18th annual National Book Critics Circle Awards as the best books of the year. An awards ceremony will be held on March 25 in New York.

“All The Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) received the award in fiction. “Young Men and Fire” by the late Norman Maclean (University of Chicago Press) was the winner in general nonfiction.

The other winners were “Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World” by Carol Brightman (Clarkson N. Potter) in the biography/autobiography category, “Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991” by Hayden Carruth (Copper Canyon Press) in poetry, and “Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Worlds That Remade America” by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster) in criticism.

NBCC also will present the Ivan Sandrof/NBCC Board Award to Gregory Rabassa, whose translations over three decades include such works as “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” for having “done more than any other individual to make the great writing of Latin America available to English-language readers.”