National biography award 2011 dodge
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography
I:
Caro
Bix
II
Francine du Plessix Gray
Them: A Memoir of Parents
Daniel Mendelsohn
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Winner
Edwidge Danticat
Brother, I'm Dying
Winner
Joshua Clark
Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
Finalist
Anna Politkovskaya
Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia
Joyce Carol Oates
The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, –
Sara Paretsky
Writing in an Age of Silence
Ariel Sabar
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Winner
Honor Moore
The Bishop's Daughter
Finalist
Andrew X.
Pham
The Eaves of Heaven
Helene Cooper
The House on Sugar Beach
Rick Bass
Why I Came West
Diana Athill
Somewhere Towards the End
Winner
Edmund White
City Boy
Finalist
Kati Marton
Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
Mary Karr
Lit
Debra Gwartney
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Darin Strauss
Half a Life
Winner
Kai Bird
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis,
Finalist
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Hiroshima in the Morning
Christopher Hitchens
Hitch A Memoir
Patti Smith
Just Kids
David Dow
The Autobiography of an Execution
Mira Bartók
The Memory Palace
Winner
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Finalist
Luis J.
Rodriguez
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Diane Ackerman
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
Deb Olin Unferth
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
Leanne Shapton
Swimming Studies
Winner
Anthony Shadid
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Finalist
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
In the House of the Interpreter
Maureen N.
McLane
My Poets
Reyna Grande
The Distance Between Us
Amy Wilentz
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti
Winner
Jesmyn Ward
Men We Reaped
Finalist
Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of My Lives
Rebecca Solnit
The Faraway Nearby
Sonali Deraniyagala
Wave
Roz Chast
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Winner
Gary Shteyngart
Little Failure
Finalist
Lacy M.
Johnson
The Other Side
Blake Bailey
The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Meline Toumani
There Was and There Was Not
Margo Jefferson
Negroland: A Memoir
Winner
George Hodgman
Bettyville
Finalist
Helen Macdonald
H is for Hawk
Elizabeth Alexander
The Light of the World
Vivian Gornick
The Odd Woman and the City
Hope Jahren
Lab Girl
Winner
Jenny Diski
In Gratitude
Finalist
Marion Coutts
The Iceberg
Hisham Matar
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Kao Kalia Yang
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Xiaolu Guo
Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Winner
Henry Marsh
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
Finalist
Roxane Gay
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Thi Bui
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
Nora Krug
Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home
Winner
Nicole Chung
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
Finalist
Tara Westover
Educated: A Memoir
Nell Painter
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Richard Beard
The Day That Went Missing: A Family's Story
Rigoberto Gonzalez
What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood
Chanel Miller
Know My Name: A Memoir
Winner
Ronan Farrow
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Finalist
Laura Cumming
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Mira Jacob
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Cathy Park Hong
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Winner
Riva Lehrer
Golem Girl
Finalist
Alia Volz
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
Wayétu Moore
The Dragons, The Giant, The Women
Shayla Lawson
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Winner
Rodrigo Garcia
A Farewell To Gabo And Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
Finalist
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
A Ghost in the Throat
Hanif Abdurraqib
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Albert Samaha
Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
Hua Hsu
Stay True: A Memoir
Winner
Jazmina Barrera
Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes
Finalist
Dorthe Nors
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Darryl Pinckney
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Winner
Susan Kiyo Ito
I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
Finalist
David Mas Masumoto
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
Ahmed Naji
Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison
Matthew Zapruder
Story of a Poem: A Memoir