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As part of the National Book Critics Circle's retrospective series on its book award winners, book/daddy's appreciation of Walter Jackson Bate's biography, Samuel Johnson is up on the Critical Mass website. It was a rare triple-crown winner in 1977, garnering the NBCC's award for general non-fiction, the Pulitzer and the National Book Award.

September 17, 2007 9:55 AM |

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Pat Barker, Frankenstein, Cass Sunstein on the internet, Samuel Johnson, Thrillers, Denis Johnson, Alan Furst, Caryl Phillips, Richard Flanagan, George Saunders, Michael Harvey, Larry McMurtry, Harry Potter and more ...

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