2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner

John Clare: A Biography
Jonathan Bate
The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme “poets’ poet” John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and u…
2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Shortlist

A Life Of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare And The Noble Dream
Nicola Lacey

Eichmann: His Life and Crimes
David Cesarani

Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story Of B. S. Johnson
Jonathan Coe

Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884-1920
Michael W. Young
