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NEW YORK — Presidential favorite Marilynne Robinson, the late Roberto Bolano of Chile and a memoir about Africa featured last year at Starbucks were among the finalists announced Saturday for the National Book Critics Circle prizes.
Others nominated in six competitive categories included Annette Gordon-Reed’s “The Hemingses of Monticello,” winner of the National Book Award last fall; Patrick French’s “The World Is What It Is,” an explicit and authorized biography of Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul; and Steve Coll’s biography “The Bin Ladens.”
Winners will be announced March 12.
Robinson is a finalist for “Home,” a companion to her previous novel, “Gilead.” President Barack Obama has praised that Pulitzer Prize- winning book.
