Troublemaker Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
January 21, 2026
Carla Kaplan’s latest book, Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford is now a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the “Biography” category. Troublemaker had been longlisted for the award.
The organization’s announcement read, in part:
“The NBCC is delighted to announce our 2025 shortlists. Out of the many hundreds of titles that our organization carefully considered this year, these singular and striking finalists rose to the top,” says NBCC President Adam Dalva. “Each of these books is an artistic achievement. They interrogate the lives we lead, broaden our creative and social horizons, move us, and continually surprise us. Especially in this difficult time, every one of these writers and translators deserves to be celebrated — and to be widely read.”