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Article: Book critics honor Munro work as top fiction book.
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- March 9, 1999
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NEW YORK _ Canadian author Alice Munro's widely praised volume of short stories, ``The Love of a Good Woman'' (Alfred A. Knopf), and ``We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda'' by Philip Gourevitch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), won the National Book Critics Circle Awards in fiction and general nonfiction Monday night at the organization's annual ceremony at New York University's Vanderbilt Hall.
Gary Giddens' collected writings on jazz for The Village Voice and other publications, ``Visions of Jazz''(Oxford University Press), won the prize in criticism. Sylvia Nasar's ``A Beautiful Mind''(Simon & Schuster), the ...