2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction:	The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai (Grove/Atlantic)
General Nonfiction:	Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, Simon Schama (Ecco)
Biography:	James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St.Martin's Press)
Autobiography:	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins)
Poetry:	Tom Thomson in Purgatory, Troy Jollimore (Margie/Intuit House)
Criticism:	Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, Lawrence Weschler (McSweeney's)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award:	John Leonard, a contributor to Harpers, The New York Review of Books, and The Nation
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing:	Steven G. Kellman, a contributor to The Texas Observer and the San Antonio Current