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James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture
Tanya Harrod
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Fiona MacCarthy
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China
Hilary Spurling
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
John Carey
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families
Michael Holroyd
God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
Rosemary Hill
The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas
Byron Rogers
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
Sue Prideaux
John Clare: A Biography
Jonathan Bate
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Janet Browne
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future
Jenny Uglow
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946
Robert Skidelsky
Experience: A Memoir
Martin Amis
George Eliot: The Last Victorian
Kathryn Hughes
The Life of Thomas More
Peter Ackroyd
W.B. Yeats: A Life: Volume 1. The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914
R.F. Foster
Thomas Cranmer: A Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
Gitta Sereny
Under My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949
Doris May Lessing
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage
Richard Holmes
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
Charles Nicholl
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
Adrian Desmond, James Moore
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
Claire Tomalin
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
Ian Gibson
Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein’s Life, 1889-1921
Brian McGuinness
Victor Gollancz: A Biography
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Helen Waddell: A Biography
Felicitas Corrigan
Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed, A Critical Biography
David Nokes
Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life
Lyndall Gordon
Franz Liszt: Volume 1. The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
Alan Walker
James Joyce
Richard Ellmann
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
Victoria Glendinning
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart
Robert Bernard Martin
Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography
Brian Finney
The Older Hardy
Robert Gittings
Chateaubriand: The Longed-for Tempests, 1768-1793
George D. Painter
A New Life of Anton Chekhov
Ronald Hingley
Cockburn’s Millennium
Karl Miller
