|
FOR CRITICISM 1975-2003 |
 |
|
FOR CRITICISM 1975-2003 |
|
Awards are made by a 24 member board of critics from around the country. Books are often recommended to the board by the more than 500 general members of the Circle. The award for Criticism was first given in 1975.
| 2003 | Rebecca Solnit | River of Shadows |
| 2002 | William H. Gass | Tests of Time |
| 2001 | Martin Amis | The War Against Clishe: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 |
| 2000 | Cynthia Ozick | Quarrel and Quandry |
| 1999 | Jorge Luis Borges | Selected Non-Fictions |
| 1998 | Gary Giddons | Visions of Jazz |
| 1997 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Making Waves |
| 1996 | William gass | Finding a Form |
| 1995 | Robert Darnton | The Forbidden Best Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France |
| 1994 | Gerald Early | The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature and Modern American Culture |
| 1993 | John Dizikes | Opera in America |
| 1992 | Gary Wills | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America |
| 1991 | Lawrence L. Langer | Holocaust Testimonies |
| 1990 | Arthur C. Danto | Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present |
| 1989 | John Clive | Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History |
| 1988 | Clifford Geertz | Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author |
| 1987 | Edwin Denby | Dance Writings |
| 1986 | Joseph Brodsky | Less Than One: Selected Essays |
| 1985 | William H. Gass | Habitations of the Word: Essays |
| 1984 | Robert Hass | Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry |
| 1983 | John Updike | Hugging the Shore |
| 1982 | Gore Vidal | The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 |
| 1981 | Virgil Thompson | A Virgil Thompson Reader |
| 1980 | Helen Vendler | Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets |
| 1979 | Elaine Pagels | The Gnostic Gospels |
| 1978 | Meyer Shapiro | Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries, Selected Papers |
| 1977 | Susan Sontag | On Photography |
| 1976 | Bruno Bettelheim | The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales |
| 1975 | Paul Fussell | The Great War and Modern Memory |
| HOME |