2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction:	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain (Ecco)
General Nonfiction:	Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, Andrew Solomon (Scribner)
Biography:	The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf)
Autobiography:	Swimming Studies, Leanne Shapton (Blue Rider Press)
Poetry:	Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, D. A. Powell (Graywolf Press)
Criticism:	Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights, Marina Warner (Belknap Press: Harvard University Press)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award:	Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing:	William Deresiewicz