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NEW YORK — Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” last year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize in London, was honored Thursday night on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
The novel, set in the age of King Henry VIII, won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for fiction. It’s a sympathetic narrative of royal adviser Thomas Cromwell. Others cited Thursday included Richard Holmes’ highly regarded study of the crossed stars of science and poetry, “The Age of Wonder,” which received the general nonfiction award. Rae Armantrout’s “Versed” was cited for poetry. The Associated Press
