NEW YORK — Bob Dylan, the unofficial poet laureate of the rock ‘n’ roll generation, has now been officially placed alongside such literary greats as Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich, not to mention biographies of Shakespeare and Willem de Kooning. All were among nominees announced Saturday for the National Book Critics Circle prizes.
Among the nominees for general nonfiction was UW-Madison Afro-American studies professor Tim Tyson’s “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story.”