James Tait Black Memorial Prizes (original) (raw)

Previous Winners - Biography

Past winners of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography are displayed below, listed by year of publication.

2005

Sue Prideaux - Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream (Yale University Press)

2004

Jonathan Bate - John Clare: A Biography (Picador)

2003

Janet Browne - Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place (Jonathan Cape)

2002

Jenny UglowThe Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 (Faber)

2001

Robert Skidelsky - John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 Fighting For Britain 1937-1946 (Macmillan)

2000

Martin Amis - Experience (Jonathan Cape)

1999

Kathryn Hughes - George Eliot: The Last Victorian (Fourth Estate)

1998

Peter Ackroyd - The Life of Thomas More (Chatto & Windus)

1997

R.F. Foster - W.B. Yeats: A Life Volume1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914 (Hodder & Stoughton)

1996

Diarmaid MacCulloch - Thomas Cranmer: A Life (Yale)

1995

Gitta Sereny - Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth (Macmillan)

1994

Doris Lessing - Under My Skin (Harper Collins)

1993

Richard Holmes - Dr Johnson And Mr Savage (Hodder & Stoughton)

1992

Charles Nicoll - The Reckoning: The Murder Of Christopher Marlowe (Jonathan Cape)

1991

Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin (Paladin)

1990

Claire Tomalin - The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens (Viking)

1989

Ian Gibson - Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life (Faber & Faber)

1988

Brian McGuinness - Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921) (Duckworth)

1987

Ruth Dudley Edwards - Victor Gollancz: A Biography (Victor Gollancz)

1986

D. Felicitas Corrigan - Helen Waddell (Victor Gollancz)

1985

David Nokes - Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (OUP)

1984

Lyndall Gordon - Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (OUP)

1983

Alan Walker - Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years (Faber)

1982

Richard Ellmann - James Joyce (OUP)

1981

Victoria Glendinning - Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions (Weidenfeld)

1980

Robert B. Martin - Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (OUP)

1979

Brian Finney - Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography (Faber)

1978

Robert Gittings - The Older Hardy (Heinemann Educational)

1977

George Painter - Chateaubriand, Vol.1: The Longed-For Tempests (Chatto & Windus)

1976

Ronald Hingley - A New Life Of Chekhov (OUP)

1975

Karl Miller - Cockburn's Millennium (Duckworth)

1974

John Wain - Samuel Johnson

1973

Robin Lane Fox - Alexander The Great

1972

Quentin Bell - Virginia Woolf

1971

Julia Namier - Lewis Namier

1970

Jasper Ridley - Lord Palmerston

1969

Antonia Fraser - Mary, Queen Of Scots

1968

Gordon S. Haight - George Eliot

1967

Winifred Gérin - Charlotte Brontë, The Evolution Of Genius

1966

Geoffrey Keynes - The Life Of William Harvey Such

1965

Mary Moorman - William Wordsworth, The Later Years 1803-1850

1964

Elizabeth Longford - Victoria R.I.

1963

Georgina Battiscome - John Keble: A Study In Limitations

1962

Meriol Trevor - Newman: The Pillar And The Cloud and Newman: Light In Winter

1961

M. K. Ashby - Joseph Ashby Of Tysoe

1960

Canon Adam Fox - The Life Of Dean Inge

1959

Christopher Hassall - Edward Marsh

1958

Joyce Hemlow - The History Of Fanny Burney

1957

Maurice Cranston - Life Of John Locke

1956

St John Greer Ervine - George Bernard Shaw

1955

R. W. Ketton-Cremer - Thomas Gray

1954

Keith Feiling - Warren Hastings

1953

Carola Oman - Sir John Moore

1952

G. M. Young - Stanley Baldwin

1951

Noel G. Annan - Leslie Stephen

1950

Mrs Cecil Woodham-Smith - Florence Nightingale

1949

John Connell - W. E. Henley

1948

Percy A. Scholes - The Great Dr Burney

1947

C. C. E. Raven - English Naturalists From Neckham To Ray

1946

R. Aldington - Wellington

1945

D. S. MacColl - Philip Wilson Steer

1944

C. V. Wedgwood - William The Silent

1943

G. G. Coulton - Fourscore Years

1942

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede - Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary

1941

John Gore - King George V

1940

Hilda F. M. Prescott - Spanish Tudor

1939

David C. Douglas - English Scholars

1938

Sir Edmund Chambers - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1937

Lord Eustace Percy - John Knox

1936

Edward Sackville West - A Flame In Sunlight: The Life And Work Of Thomas de Quincey

1935

R. W. Chambers - Thomas More

1934

J. E. Neale - Queen Elizabeth

1933

Violet Clifton - The Book Of Talbot

1932

Stephen Gwynn - The Life Of Mary Kingsley

1931

J. Y. R. Greig - David Hume

1930

Francis Yeats Brown - Lives Of A Bengal Lancer

1929

Lord David Cecil - The Stricken Deer: Or The Life Of Cowper

1928

John Buchan - Montrose

1927

H. A. L. Fisher - James Bryce, Viscount Bryce Of Dechmont, O.M.

1926

Rev. Dr H. B. Workman - John Wyclif: A Study Of The English Medieval Church

1925

Geoffrey Scott - The Portrait Of Zelide

1924

Rev. William Wilson - The House Of Airlie

1923

Sir Ronald Ross - Memoirs, Etc

1922

Percy Lubbock - Earlham

1921

Lytton Strachey - Queen Victoria

1920

G. M. Trevelyan - Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill

1919

H. Festing Jones - Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoi