National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography

2007

Brother, I'm Dying Winner

Edwidge Danticat

Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone

Joshua Clark

The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 19731982

Joyce Carol Oates

Writing in an Age of Silence

Sara Paretsky

Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia

Anna Politkovskaya

2006

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Winner

Daniel Mendelsohn

The Afterlife

Donald Antrim

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters

Strange Piece of Paradise

Teri Jentz

2005

Them: A Memoir of Parents Winner

Francine du Plessix Gray

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

Fat Girl: A True Story

Judith Moore

Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk

Two Lives

Vikram Seth

Before 2005, the award was for Biography/Autobiography.

2004

• De Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Winner
• Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow
• Chronicles Vol. 1 Bob Dylan
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakepeare Stephen Greenblatt
• Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart John Guy

2003

• Krushchev: The Man and his era William Taubman Winner
• A Tragic Honesty: The Life and work of Richard Yates Blake Bailey
• The Life you save may be your own: An American pilgrimage Paul Elie
• Jonathan Edwards George Marsden
• Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake Carol Loeb Shloss

2002

• Charles Darwin: The Power of place vol. 2 Janet Browne Winner
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson vol. 3 Robert A. Caro
• The Last American man Elizabeth Gilbert
• Benjamin Franklin Edmund S. Morgan
• Will you miss me when I’m gone? The Carter Family and their legacy in American Music Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg

2001

• Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the life of Dr. Johnson Adam Sisman Winner
• Borrowed finery: A Memoir Paula Fox
• Positively 4th Street: The Lives and times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña David Hajdu
• Milking the moon: A Southerner's story of life on this planet Katherine Clark
• The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary life shattered by scandal Barry Werth

• 2000 Hirohito and the making of modern Japan Herbert P. Bix
• 1999 The Hairstons: An American family in black and white Henry Wiencek
• 1998 A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics Sylvia Nasar
• 1997 Ernie Pyle's war: America's eyewitness to World War II James Tobin
• 1996 Angela's ashes Frank McCourt
• 1995 Savage art: A Biography of Jim Thompson Robert Polito
• 1994 Shot in the heart Mikal Gilmore
• 1993 Genet Edmund White
• 1992 Writing dangerously: Mary McCarthy and her world Carol Brightman
• 1991Patrimony: A True story Philip Roth
• 1990 Means of ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II Robert A. Caro