Paul Hendrickson Nominated by National Book Critics Circle

Paul Hendrickson, senior lecturer in the Department of English, has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) book award for the 2011 publishing year. His work, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961, was announced this past weekend as a finalist in the biography category and follows Hemingway’s life through his one constant—his boat, Pilar.

Hendrickson’s Sons of Mississippi was the winner of the 2003 NBCC Award in general nonfiction, as well as the Heartland Prize, annually awarded by the Chicago Tribune. The book examines a harrowing photograph of seven white Mississippi lawmen, illuminating their racial intolerance. He also authored Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Give Lives of a Lost War, both of which were NBCC award nominees.

Hendrickson came to Penn in 2002 and was the recipient of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2005. Prior to joining Penn, he was a feature staff writer at The Washington Post. His next endeavor will focus on Frank Lloyd Wright and is supported by a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship.