National Book Critics Circle Names Winners

“Gilead,” Marilynne Robinson’s poetic, modern-day testament of a dying Iowa preacher, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction.

The biography/autobiography prize was given to “De Kooning: An American Master,” by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. Patrick Neate won in the criticism category for “Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet.”

Diarmaid MacCulloch’s “The Reformation: A History” won for general nonfiction. Adrienne Rich was cited in poetry for “The School Among the Ruins.”