James Tait Black Memorial Prize

1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerDr. Johnson & Mr. SavageRichard HolmesA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography....Amazon

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerA Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable FamiliesMichael HolroydIt will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition....Amazon2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistArthur MillerChristopher BigsbyAmazonChagall: A BiographyJackie WullschlagerAmazonEdward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and LoveSheila RowbothamAmazonGabriel García Márquez: A LifeGerald MartinAmazon

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the CountercultureTanya HarrodBritish studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. After graduating from Oxford in 1923, he made majestic slipwar...Amazon2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistCirculation: William Harvey's Revolutionary IdeaThomas WrightAmazonJoseph Anton: A MemoirSalman RushdieAmazonPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazon

2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian ImaginationFiona MacCarthyIn Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic aud...Amazon2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistBen Jonson: A LifeIan DonaldsonAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazonNikolaus Pevsner: The LifeSusie HarriesAmazon

2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerWilliam Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the FliesJohn CareyIn 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to ...Amazon2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyAmazonDifferent Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillanJann ParryAmazonMuriel Spark: The BiographyMartin StannardAmazonThe English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De QuinceyRobert MorrisonAmazon