Critics Circle Honors Five New Books
The board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle has selected the winners of its 19th annual awards.
The organization of 580 professional book critics and book review editors each year honors the five best new books by American authors.
The 1993 winner in fiction is “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest J. Gaines (Alfred A. Knopf).
“The Land Where the Blues Began” by Alan Lomax (Pantheon), received the award for general nonfiction. The biography/autobiography award went to “Genet” by Edmund White (Alfred Knopf); the poetry award to “My Alexandria” by Mark Doty (University of Illinois Press); and the criticism prize to “Opera in America: A Cultural History” by John Dizikes (Yale University Press).
The authors will be honored at a ceremony March 10 at the Ethical Culture Society in New York City.
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