NEW YORK (AP) — Author Robert Caro is again the critics' choice.
Caro's fourth Lyndon Johnson book, "The Passage of Power," won the National Book Critics Circle biography prize Thursday night. It's the third time he has been honored by the critics circle.
The fiction winner is Ben Fountain's satirical novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk." The prize for general nonfiction has gone to Andrew Solomon's "Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity."
Leanne Shapton's "Swimming Studies" is the autobiography winner. Marina Warner's "Stranger Magic" has received the criticism prize. And D.A. Powell's "Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys" was cited for poetry.
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