The National Book Critics Circle has chosen Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, a collection of connected stories, the best fiction of the year.
In other categories, the winners were:
poetry- One with Others: (a little book of her days) [C.D. Wright]
general nonfiction- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Isabel Wilkerson]
biography- How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer [Sarah Bakewell]
autobiography- Half a Life [Darin Strauss]
criticism- Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West [Clare Cavanagh]
An honorary criticism prize was awarded to Parul Sehgal of Publishers Weekly.
The Ivan Sandrof lifetime achievement award was presented by author William Gass to the Dalkey Archive Press (which deals with experimental fiction, translation, and literary criticism).
The Circle counts more than 600 critics in the United States among its members.
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