And the 2006 NBCC Award for Biography Goes to ...
This year's NBCC Award for Biography goes to James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, by Julie Phillips (St. Martin's Press). Click here for a response to Phillips's book by Jennifer Reese, NBCC board member.The finalists for the 2006 NBCC Award for Biography are:
Debby Applegate: The Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday)
Taylor Branch, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (Simon& Schuster)
Frederick Brown, Flaubert: A Biography (Little, Brown)
Jason Roberts, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins)
Labels: The 2006 NBCC Award Winners
posted by Rebecca Skloot 7:18:00 PM
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Wonderful! This was an amazing book about an amazing author.
The award signifies that serious criticism and history can be appreciated about formerly deprecated genre literature.
This goes hand in hand with, for example, the Library of America edition of H. P. Lovecraft, and the scholarly meetings of the Science Fiction Research Association
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Science Fiction is one of the ways in which the contemporary world examines itself, through dystopia and utopia.
"James Tiptree, Jr." gave an unsual insight into social roles, biological factors, gender bias, and other concerns. The biographer did an extraordinary job of uncovering hidden facts, and presenting them in a clear and fully contextualized way.
Bravo!
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