National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · National Book Critics Circle · Since 1975 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2024	Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar	Cynthia Carr	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2023	Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage	Jonny Steinberg	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2022	G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century	Beverly Gage	Viking
2021	All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler	Rebecca Donner	Little, Brown
2020	Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World	Amy Stanley	Scribner
2019	The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth	—	Little, Brown
2018	Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous	—	Henry Holt
2017	Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Caroline Fraser	Metropolitan Books
2016	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life	—	Liveright Publishing
2015	Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley	—	Random House
2014	Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh	—	W. W. Norton
2013	Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World	—	Yale University Press
2012	The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV	Robert Caro	Knopf
2011	George F. Kennan: An American Life	John Lewis Gaddis	Penguin Press
2010	How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer	—	Other Press