2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

Rosemary Hill

During his short life Pugin was shipwrecked, bankrupted, widowed twice and driven to madness. Yet by the time of his death at forty he had changed the face of Britain with his visionary Gothic architecture, designing glorious churches, cathedrals, houses a…

Edith Wharton

Hermione Lee

Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell

Michael Gray

John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand

Richard Reeves

Young Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore