“Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice,” the best-selling book by Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, has been nominated for a 2014 New England Society Book Award in the nonfiction/history and biography category. Winners will be selected from finalists and announced in mid-March. The Bulger book is also a finalist in the nonfiction category of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award. The awards ceremony will be March 13 in New York’s New School.
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