Wolf Hall Wins Again

LITERARY

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 10:34AM EDT / Published Mar. 11, 2010 3:18PM EST

The Wolf Hall juggernaut extended its reign over book honors, winning the National Book Critics Circle's fiction award to go with its Man Booker Prize. Hillary Mantel's historical novel about Thomas Cromwell was honored alongside Richard Holmes' The Age of Wonder, which took the nonfiction award, and poetry winner Versed, by Rae Armantrout. Diana Athill won in the autobiography category for Somewhere Towards the End, while Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life won the biography award.

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Wolf Hall Wins Again