The National Book Critic Circle Award
2012 Award Winners
Fiction
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Way by Ben Fountain
General Nonfiction
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search of Identity by Andrew Solomon
Biography
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
Autobiography
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
Criticism
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
Poetry
Useless Landscape, or A Guide of Boy by D.A. PowellCall