1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

Kathryn Hughes

This intensely engaging biography examines the extraordinary life of George Eliot from her childhood, through her scandalous liaison and social exile, to her hard-won status as one of Victorian England’s literary elite….

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

Michael Ignatieff

John Soane: An Accidental Romantic

Gillian Darley

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment

Isobel Grundy

Mandela: The Authorised Biography

Anthony Sampson