On Thursday, the National Book Critics Circle recognized Harvard Professor Maya Jasanoff  with its award for general nonfiction for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War” (Knopf). At the awards ceremony, Jasanoff opened her remarks by saying, “When you write a book about losers, you don’t really expect to get up and make a speech like this.”

Jasanoff is also one of three finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” which will be announced June 4.