Short story writer Edith Pearlman has won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction.
Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, science-technology writer James Gleick and the late historian Manning Marable were among the nominees announced for the National Book Critics Circle awards
Manning Marable didn't live to hear the praise, or respond to the controversy.
New England writer Edith Pearlman has won the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the "art of short fiction."
