The Book Prize Index

Selected Essays

William Troy

Includes critical essays on Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stendhal, Balzac, Marcel Proust, Andre Malraux, Paul Valery, Thomas Mann, William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra), and other topics.

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Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor1968Co-winnerSecondary source
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