National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announces 2003 Winners
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a not-for-profit organization of book editors and critics. No cash prizes are given for the NBCC awards.
The NBCC 2003 Fiction Winner:
The Known World by Edward Jones 
-WINNER
Also nominated as finalists for fiction category:
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
- Old School by Tobias Wolff
- A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Nonfiction:
- Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendrickson
Biography/Autobiography:
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
