NBCC Award Winners

The 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced, and the winners are:

Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Autobiography: Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Biography: Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
Poetry: Elegy by Mary Jo Bang
Nonfiction: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross