Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
| Fiction: | Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (Holt) |
| General Nonfiction: | The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, Richard Holmes (Pantheon) |
| Biography: | Cheever: A Life, Blake Bailey (Knopf) |
| Autobiography: | Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill (Norton) |
| Poetry: | Versed, Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan) |
| Criticism: | Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays, Eula Biss (Graywolf Press) |
| Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: | Joan Acocella, a dance critic for The New Yorker magazine |
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