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The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last night in New York. The all-volunteer organization of book reviewers and editors gave top honors to:
Fiction: Kiran Desai, for "The Inheritance of Loss."
General nonfiction: Simon Schama, for "Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution."
Biography: Julie Phillips, for "James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon."
Autobiography: Daniel Mendelsohn, for "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million."
Poetry: Troy Jollimore, for "Tom Thomson in Purgatory."
Criticism: Lawrence Weschler, for "Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences."
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