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