By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Mar 4, 2013, at 11:52 AM Updated on 3/04 at 11:52 AM
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Robert Caro, who spoke at the University of Tulsa last month as part of its Presidential Lecture series, won his third National Book Critics Circle Award for the fourth volume of his "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" series, "The Passage of Power."
Caro had previously won the award for the first volume, "The Path to Power," 1982, and the second volume, "Means of Ascent," in 1990. The third volume, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Master of the Senate," was a finalist in 2002.
Ben Fountain won the fiction prize for his novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," described as "the 'Catch-22' of the Iraq War," about the experiences of a group of soldiers who are to be part of a halftime event during a professional football game taking place on Thanksgiving.
Andrew Solomon's "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity" was the winner in General Non-Fiction. Leanne Shapton's memoir "Swimming Studies" was named best Autobiography, Marina Warner won the Criticism prize for "Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights," and D.A. Powell won the Poetry prize for "Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys."
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