Nat'l Book Critics Circle Awards

The winners of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced.

Fiction: The March by E.L. Doctorow. Doctorow also won an NBCC Prize in. 1989 for Billy Bathgate. The March has won the PEN/Faulkner fiction award and was shortlisted for the National Book Award.

General Nonfiction: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

Biography: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Autobiography**: Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray .

Poetry: Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert and Criticism: The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin by William Logan

The NBCC also awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award to Bill Henderson, founder of the Pushcart Press, editor of the annual Pushcart Prize anthology and trumpet player extraordinaire.

The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing went to Wyatt Mason, a contributor to Harper's, the New Yorker and the New Republic.

**The autobiography category is new this year.