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