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National Book Critics Circle Award winners

  • Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges was born on the 24th of August 1899 in Palermo, a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires. His family lived in a large house filled with an…
  • Junot Díazthe 31st of December 1968 marked the birth of Junot Díaz in Santo Domingo. His family moved to Parlin, New Jersey six years later.
  • E. L. DoctorowEdgar Lawrence Doctorow was born on the 6th of January 1931 in the Bronx. His parents were Rose and David Richard Doctorow, second-generation Americans of…
  • Hilary MantelHilary Mary Thompson was born on the 6th of July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire. She grew up as a Roman Catholic in the mill village of Hadfield.
  • John Lewis GaddisJohn Lewis Gaddis was born on the 2nd of April 1941 in Cotulla, Texas. He began his higher education journey at the University of Texas at Austin.