Top NBCC Winners

Publishers Lunch 

The 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award winners were named at the New School in New York on Thursday night. The winners are:

Fiction
AMERICANAH, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf)

Nonfiction
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL, Sheri Fink (Crown)

Autobiography
FAREWELL, FRED VOODOO, Amy Wilentz (Simon & Schuster)

Biography
JONATHAN SWIFT, Leo Damrosch (Yale University Press)

Criticism
DISTANT READING, Franco Moretti (Verso)

Poetry
METAPHYSICAL DOG, Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus)