National Book Critics Circle Award

broke many records. Jerry Rice was an incredible receiver, he won many superbowls . One of those superbowls was Super Bowl XXII where he won the MVP award. He also won super bowl XXIX. In 1993 he was offensive player of the year. He is holding the record for most career receptions, 1,549. Jerry Rice has many more records, and won many more awards. That’s what made Jerry Rice one of the best receivers. Jerry Rice has broken thousands of records, but I can only tell you a few records. Jerry…

Alison Macor wrote on Edward’s acting role and the nicely arranged tension emerging before the release of the film. Despite the multiple reassessments, Edward was awarded the Golden Globe Award and was also selected for an Academy Award for being the Best Supporting Actor. In the same year of receiving those awards, Edwards acted the character of Alan Isaacman, an attorney in The People versus Larry Flynt. In the year 1998, Edward acted the character of Derek Vinyard, a renewed neo – Nazi,…

Alice Walker accomplished many achievements during her lifetime. She won the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Fred Cody Award for lifetime achievement in 1990, and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2006 (African American Poets). Most of her short stories expressed the struggles of black women and their lives in a racist, sexist, and violent society (Poem Hunter). “To Hell with Dying” was published when she was just twenty-three years old.…

When people listen to the word ‘autobiography’, they instantly expect a book which deals with the life story of the author. They believe that it must be a book of nonfiction. However, The Woman Warrior – Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts written by Maxine Hong Kingston is different than other autobiographies. First of all, it is an autobiography by a Chinese American woman. Then, she included lots of fantastic elements. Moreover, the protagonist of her autobiography is not only her, but her…

the voice of the Chinese-American woman who had a struggle to find her identity. Moreover, they express how she fight in order to have a balanced identity comes as a result of mixing two diversely cultures. For instance, she publishes her first book The Woman Warrior in 1976 and the scholars consider it as an autobiography, autobiographical novel, or memoir. The Woman Warrior is regarded as an iconic work of ethnic writing especially for the Asian American minority who flee China to America.…

As well, O’Brien’s work The Things They Carried is a well-known war novel. When the novel was released critics had things to say like, “At the time of publication, reviewers noted this novel’s ‘lean, vigorous style of O'Briens earlier books’;.”(Herzog, Tim 104). There was a certain order that O’Brein’s books got published, a critic says; “After publishing in 1985 his comic home-front novel about the Vietnam era, The Nuclear Age, O’Brien spent the next five years returning…

poet whose work has landed her numerous awards, teaching positions, and praise from all types of readers and will forever be recognized for her honest and riveting literary achievements. Now married with two children, Sharon Olds’s life started on November, 19th of 1942 in San Francisco, California. (Hsiao) Her upbringing was tumultuous from the beginning due to her “…father’s alcoholism” and “…her parents’ marital unhappiness….” (Hsiao)…

The novel I will be talking about is Bel Canto. I will be talking about the book’s identity, the author, and the context of the work. A detailed summary of the novel will be reveal later on. I will also talk about my experience of reading the book and my emotions on it. There will also of recommendations of why people should read it and reasons. This review is for people who did not read the novel. But also will convince the readers to read the novel, Bel Canto. This is the book’s identity and…

Carried is perceived as a war book, but truth of the matter is that it’s more than that. The Things They Carried is about burdens we carry as part of life. It blends truth and fiction to tell you about the Vietnam War. This book besides the fact that it was a Pulitzer Prize finalist has been banned across the country. One of reasons for banning the book The Things They Carried was the graphic description of the war. That same reason is also why readers enjoy the book so much, it brings life…

was unreal (Paper Masters). In Steinbeck’s first novel, Cup of Gold, it would focus on a seventeenth-century pirate adventures in Panama. His first novel that got the most attention was Of Mice and Men as he would receive his first award- Drama Critics Circle Award- as the novel had a stage version in New York (Shmoop Editorial Team). His success later on would make him earn more…