National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, established in 1976,[1] is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English."[2] Awards are presented annually to books published in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism.
Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories."[3]
The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members, namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers."[4] Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March.[3]
Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 |
Edith Wharton: A Biography |
Winner |
[5] | |
| 1976 |
Winner |
[6] | ||
| George Dangerfield | The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations | Finalist | [6] | |
| Alex Haley | Roots | |||
| Irving Howe with Kenneth Libo | World of Our Fathers | |||
| Richard Kluger | Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality | |||
| 1977 |
Samuel Johnson |
Winner |
[7] | |
| Michael Herr | Dispatches | Finalist | [7] | |
| David McCullough | The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
| |||
| John McPhee | Coming Into the Country | |||
| Carl Sagan | The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
| |||
| 1978 |
Facts of Life |
Winner |
[8] | |
|
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence | ||||
| Barbara W. Tuchman | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
|
Finalist | [8] | |
| Theodore H. White | In Search of History: A Personal Adventure | |||
Barrington Moore
|
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt | |||
| Sissela Bok | Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life | |||
| A. Scott Berg | Max Perkins: Editor of Genius | |||
| Alfred Kazin | New York Jew | |||
| Anne Hollander | Seeing Through Clothes | |||
| Peter Matthiessen | The Snow Leopard | |||
| 1979 |
Munich: The Price of Peace |
Winner |
[9] | |
| Tom Wolfe | The Right Stuff | Finalist | [9] | |
| Joan Didion | The White Album | |||
| Edward Hoagland | African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan | |||
| Douglas Hofstadter | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Brain | |||
| 1980 |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
Winner |
[10] | |
| Jean Strouse | Alice James: A Biography | Finalist | [10] | |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | China Men | |||
| John Boswell | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th Century | |||
Justin D. Kaplan
|
Walt Whitman: A Life | |||
| 1981 | Stephen Jay Gould | The Mismeasure of Man | Winner | [11] |
| James Fallows | National Defense | Finalist | [11] | |
| T. J. Jackson Lears | No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 | |||
| Dumas Malone | The Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Six | |||
| Erving Goffman | Forms of Talk | |||
| 1982 | Robert Caro | The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
|
Winner | [12] |
| George F. Kennan | The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age | Finalist | [12] | |
| Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth | |||
| Daniel Lawrence O’Keefe | Stolen Lightning | |||
| Kate Simon | Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood | |||
| 1983 |
|
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House |
Winner |
[13] |
| Roger Rosenblatt | Children of War | Finalist | [13] | |
| William W. Warner | Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman | |||
| Theodore Draper | Present History: On Nuclear War, Detente and Other | |||
David S. Landes
|
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World | |||
| 1984 |
Weapons and Hope |
Winner |
[14] | |
| David Wyman | The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945
|
Finalist | [14] | |
| John Edgar Wideman | Brothers and Keepers | |||
| Robert Darnton | The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
| |||
Evan Connell
|
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Big Horn | |||
| 1985 | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
|
Winner |
[15] | |
| Tracy Kidder | House | Finalist | [15] | |
| Elaine Scarry | The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World | |||
| Alan Riding | Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans | |||
| Eva Keuls | The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens | |||
| 1986 | Barry Lopez | Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape |
Winner |
[16] |
| Bernard Bailyn | Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution | Finalist | [16] | |
| Jonathan Evan Maslow | Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist’s Journey Through a Land of Political Turmoil | |||
| John W. Dower | War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
| |||
| Marc Reisner | Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water | |||
| 1987 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Winner | [17] |
| Randy Shilts | And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic | Finalist | [17] | |
| James Miller | Democracy Is in the Streets | |||
| Charles Mee | The Genius of the People | |||
| Stephen Jay Gould | Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle | |||
| 1988 |
|
Winner |
[18] | |
| James M. McPherson | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
|
Finalist | [18] | |
| Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
| |||
| Jane Kramer | Europeans | |||
| Eric Foner | Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
| |||
| 1989 | Michael Dorris | The Broken Cord | Winner | [19] |
| Tracy Kidder | Among Schoolchildren | Finalist | [19] | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class | |||
| David Fromkin | A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 | |||
| Amy Wilentz | The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier | |||
| 1990 | The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America |
Winner |
[20] | |
| Mike Davis | City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles | Finalist | [20] | |
| Alma Guillermoprieto | Samba | |||
| O. B. Hardison | Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the 20th Century | |||
| Kevin Phillips | The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath | |||
| 1991 |
Winner |
[21] | ||
| Thomas Geoghegan | Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back | Finalist | [21] | |
| Melissa Fay Greene | Praying for Sheetrock | |||
| Jonathan Kozol | Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools | |||
| Dennis Overbye | Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe | |||
| 1992 |
Winner |
[22] | ||
| Michael D. Coe | Breaking the Maya Code | Finalist | [22] | |
Donald Katz
|
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America | |||
| Nancy Scheper-Hughes | Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil | |||
Edward O. Wilson
|
The Diversity of Life | |||
| 1993 | Alan Lomax | The Land Where the Blues Began | Winner | [23] |
| Rosemary Mahoney | Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age | Finalist | [23] | |
George B. Schaller
|
The Last Panda | |||
| Russ Rymer | Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From Silence | |||
| David Remnick | Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | |||
| 1994 | The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
|
Winner |
[24] | |
| Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson | Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas | Finalist | [24] | |
| Abraham Verghese | My Own Country: A Doctor's Story | |||
Sherwin Nuland
|
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter | |||
John Demos
|
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America | |||
| 1995 | A Civil Action |
Winner |
[25] | |
| Nicholas Basbanes | A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
|
Finalist | [25] | |
| Madeleine Blais | In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle | |||
| Fox Butterfield | All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence | |||
| Lawrence Weschler | Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder | |||
| 1996 |
Winner |
[26] | ||
| David Denby | Great Books | Finalist | [26] | |
| Daniel Goldhagen | Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust | |||
| Richard Kluger | Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris | |||
| Bernard Lewis | The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years | |||
| 1997 | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
|
Winner |
[27] | |
| Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster | Finalist | [27] | |
| James Kugel | The Bible as It Was | |||
| Pauline Maier | American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence | |||
| Steven Pinker | How the Mind Works | |||
| 1998 |
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families |
Winner |
[28] | |
| Adam Hochschild | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
|
Finalist | [28] | |
| Ira Berlin | Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America | |||
| Roy Porter | The Bible as It Was | |||
| Simon Winchester | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
| |||
| 1999 |
|
Winner |
[29] | |
| Jane Brox | Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History | Finalist | [29] | |
| John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | |||
| Patricia Hampl | I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory | |||
| Jean-Paul Kauffmann | The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena | |||
| 2000 |
Winner |
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| Fred Anderson | Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 | Finalist | ||
| Frances FitzGerald | Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War | |||
| Laurie Garrett | Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health | |||
| Alice Kaplan | The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach | |||
| 2001 |
|
Winner |
[30] | |
| Nina Bernstein | The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care | Finalist | [30] | |
| Jan T. Gross | Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland | |||
| Laura Hillenbrand | Seabiscuit: An American Legend | |||
| Sam Roberts | The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair | |||
| 2002 |
|
Winner |
[31] | |
| Chris Hedges | War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning | Finalist | [31] | |
| William Langewiesche | American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center | |||
| Richard Rodriguez | Brown: The Last Discovery of America | |||
| Gaby Wood | Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life | |||
| 2003 |
Winner |
[32] | ||
| Caroline Alexander | The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty | Finalist | [33] | |
| Anne Applebaum | Gulag | |||
| Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age | |||
| William T. Vollmann | Rising Up and Rising Down | |||
| 2004 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | The Reformation: A History | Winner | [34] |
| Kevin Boyle | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age | Finalist | [34] | |
| Edward Conlon | Blue Blood | |||
David Shipler
|
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
| |||
| Timothy Tyson | Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story | |||
| 2005 |
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster |
Winner |
[35] | |
| Robert Fisk | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
|
Finalist | [36] | |
| Ellen Meloy | Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild | |||
| Caroline Moorehead | Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees | |||
| Anthony Shadid | Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War | |||
| 2006 |
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution |
Winner |
[37] | |
| Patrick Cockburn | The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq | Finalist | [37] | |
| Ann Fessler | The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade | |||
| Michael Pollan | The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | |||
| Sandy Tolan | The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East | |||
| 2007 |
Winner |
[38][39][40] | ||
|
|
American Transcendentalism |
Finalist |
[41] | |
| Alan Weisman | The World Without Us | |||
|
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 | ||||
| 2008 | Dexter Filkins | The Forever War | Winner | [42] |
|
From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776 |
Finalist | [43][44] | ||
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
| ||||
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | ||||
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White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement | ||||
| 2009 | The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
|
Winner | [45][46][47] | |
|
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City |
Finalist | [45] | ||
|
Strength in What Remains | ||||
| Wendy Doniger | The Hindus: An Alternative History | |||
| 2010 | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
|
Winner | [48][49] | |
|
Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet |
Finalist |
[50] | ||
|
|
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American | |||
| Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
| |||
| 2011 |
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World |
Winner |
[51][52] | |
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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War |
Finalist |
[53][54][52] | ||
|
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| The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | ||||
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 | ||||
| 2012 |
|
Winner |
[55][56] | |
|
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity |
Finalist |
[55][57][58] | ||
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power | ||||
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| 2013 |
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital |
Winner |
[59][60] | |
|
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief |
Finalist |
[61][62] | ||
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
| ||||
|
Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy |
Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice | |||
| 2014 | The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation |
Winner |
[63][64] | |
|
Thomas Piketty with Arthur Goldhammer (trans.) |
Finalist |
[65][66] | ||
|
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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free | |||
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | ||||
|
Peter Finn and Petra Couvee |
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | |||
| 2015 |
Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic |
Winner |
[67] | |
|
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America |
Finalist |
[68] | ||
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America | ||||
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What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing | ||||
| 2016 | Winner | [69] | ||
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Finalist | [70] | ||
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War | ||||
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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File | ||||
| 2017 | The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America |
Winner |
[71][72] | |
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes |
Finalist |
[73][74] | ||
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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe | ||||
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Gulf: The Making of An American Sea | ||||
| The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia | ||||
| 2018 |
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan |
Winner |
[75][76][77][78] | |
|
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State |
Finalist |
[75] | ||
|
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt |
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
| |||
| The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border | ||||
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights | ||||
| 2019 |
Say Nothing: The True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland |
Winner |
[79][80] | |
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Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future |
Finalist |
[81] | ||
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us | ||||
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Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives | ||||
| The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution | ||||
| 2020 |
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire |
Winner |
[82][83][84] | |
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Finalist |
[85] | |||
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future | ||||
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She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs | ||||
| The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States | ||||
| 2021 |
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America |
Winner | [86][87] | |
|
Finalist |
[88][89][90] | |||
| The Family Roe: An American Story | ||||
| The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth | ||||
| 2022 | The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act | Winner | [91][92] | |
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands |
Finalist |
[93] | ||
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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between | ||||
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Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis | ||||
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| 2023 |
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America |
Winner | [94][95] | |
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Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs |
Finalist |
[96] | ||
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Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough | ||||
| The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War | ||||
| 2024 | Adam Higginbotham | Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space | Winner | [97][98] |
| Steve Coll | The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq | Finalist | [99] | |
| Tricia Romano | The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture | |||
| Gretchen Sisson | Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood | |||
| Edwidge Danticat | We’re Alone |
See also
- Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- John Leonard Prize
- National Book Critics Circle Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
- Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
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