Year | Author | Title | Subject | Result | Ref.Reilley rankin biography of histrion luther king |
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1971 | Michael Meyer | Henrik Ibsen | Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright prosperous theatre director | Winner |
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1972 | James Pope-Hennessy | Anthony Trollope | Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English hack of the Victorian period | Winner |
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1973 | John Wilson | CB: A Life healthy Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman(1836–1908), Prime Minister of the Banded together Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 | Winner |
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1974 | Andrew Boyle | Poor, Dear Brendan: The Quest for Brendan Bracken | Brendan Bracken (1901–1958), Irish-born businessman favour British politician | Winner |
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1975 | Helen Corke | In Our Infancy | Helen Corke (1882–1978), Honourably writer and schoolteacher | Winner |
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1976 | Winifred Gerin | Elizabeth Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), Humanities writer | Winner |
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1977 | Nigel Nicolson | Mary Curzon | Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston(1870–1906), British noble, Vicereine of Bharat | Winner |
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1978 | John Grigg | Lloyd George: Greatness People's Champion | Lloyd George (1863–1945), Pioneering Minister of the United Nation from 1916 to 1922 | Winner |
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1979 | Penelope Mortimer | About Time | Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), Welsh-born English writer | Winner |
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1980 | David Newsome | On the Edge of Paradise: A.
C. Benson, Diarist | A. Catch-phrase. Benson (1862–1925), English essayist prosperous poet | Winner |
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1981 | Nigel Hamilton | Monty: Magnanimity Making of a General | Field Guide Bernard Law MontgomeryKG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (1887–1976), the regulate Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Winner |
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1982 | Edward Crankshaw | Bismarck | Otto von Bismarck (1871–1890), as well known as the Iron Arch, the first Chancellor of Germany | Winner |
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1983 | Victoria Glendinning | Vita | The Honorable Empress Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, Spectacle (1892–1962), English author and park designer (1892–1962) | Winner |
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Kenneth Rose | King George V | King George V (1865–1936), King of the United Sovereign state and the British Dominions point of view Emperor of India 1910–1936 | Winner |
1984 | Peter Ackroyd | T.
S. Eliot | T. Hard-hearted. Eliot (1888–1965), US-born British maker | Winner |
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1985 | Ben Pimlott | Hugh Dalton | Hugh Physicist (1887–1962), British Labour politician | Winner |
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1986 | Richard Mabey | Gilbert White | Gilbert White (1720–1793), Englishnaturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist; penman of Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne | Winner |
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1987 | Christopher Nolan | Under representation Eye of the Clock | Christopher Nolan (1965–2009), Irish poet near author | Winner |
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1988 | A.
N. Wilson | Tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian writer, originator of War and Peace added Anna Karenina | Winner |
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1989 | Richard Holmes | Coleridge: Obvious Visions | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet, literary critic, truth-seeker, and theologian | Winner |
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1990 | Ann Thwaite | AA Milne–His Life | A.
A. Author (1882–1956), British author | Winner |
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1991 | John Richardson | A Life of Picasso | Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), 20th-century Spanish cougar and sculptor | Winner |
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1992 | Victoria Glendinning | Trollope | Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English novelist break on the Victorian period | Winner |
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1993 | Andrew Motion | Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life | Philip Larkin (1922–1985), English writer, blues critic and librarian | Winner |
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1994 | Brenda Maddox | D H Lawrence: The United Man | D.
H. Lawrence (1885–1930), Even-handedly writer and poet | Winner |
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1995 | Roy Jenkins | Gladstone | William Gladstone (1809–1898), Land Liberal prime minister | Winner |
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Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge | Vera Brittain–A Life | Vera Brittain (1893–1970), English bring up and writer |
Gitta Sereny | Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth | Albert Architect (1905–1981), Architect and Minister appropriate War Production in Nazi Deutschland |
Geoffrey Wansell | Terence Rattigan | Terence Rattigan (1911–1977), British playwright and screenwriter |
1996 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Thomas Cranmer: A Life | Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), 16th-century English Archbishop of Canterbury and Protestant crusader | Winner |
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Rosemary Ashton | George Eliot: Systematic Life | George Eliot (1819–1880), English essayist, essayist, poet, journalist, and intermediary | Shortlist |
Flora Fraser | The Uncontrollable Queen: The Life of Ruler Caroline | Caroline of Brunswick, (1768–1821), Queen dowager of the United Kingdom come first Hanover as the wife succeed King George IV |
James Knowlson | Damned familiar with Fame: The Life of Prophet Beckett | Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Nobel-winning modernist Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, translator and poet |
1997 | Graham Robb | Victor Hugo | Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French novelist, poet, and scenarist | Winner |
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Jessica Douglas-Home | Violet: The Assured and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse | Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872–1948), British harpsichordist and clavichordist | Shortlist |
Kate Summerscale | Queen of Whale Cay | Marion "Joe" Carstairs (1900–1993), Wealthy British dominion boat racer known for their speed, eccentric lifestyle, and coitus nonconformity |
Stella Tillyard | Citizen Lord | Lord Prince FitzGerald (1763–1798), Irish revolutionary |
Jenny Uglow | Hogarth, A Life and top-notch World | William Hogarth (1697–1764), English creator and social critic |
1998 | Amanda Foreman | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Peep of Devonshire (1757–1806), English socialite, political organiser, style icon, creator, and activist | Winner |
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John Bayley | Iris, A memoir of Iris Murdoch | Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Irish-born British man of letters and philosopher | Shortlist |
Ian Kershaw | Hitler, Volume One Hubris 1889–1936 | Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Deutschland (1889–1945) |
1999 | David Cairns | Berlioz Abundance Two: Servitude and Greatness | Hector Composer (1803–1869), French music composer contemporary conductor | Winner |
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Nicholas Shakespeare | Bruce Chatwin | Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), English writer, hack and journalist | Shortlist |
Hilary Spurling | Matisse | Henri Matisse (1869–1954), 20th-century Nation artist |
2000 | Lorna Sage | Bad Blood–A Memoir | Lorna Sage (1943–2001), English learned, literary critic and author | Winner |
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Claire Harman | Fanny Burney | Fanny Burney (1752–1840), English diarist, novelist and playwright; the first literary woman essayist | Shortlist |
Tim Hilton | John Ruskin: The Later Years | John Ruskin (1819–1900), English writer and art reviewer |
Ian Kershaw | Hitler: 1936–45 Nemesis | Adolf Dictator, Führer of Nazi Germany (1889–1945) |
2001 | Diana Souhami | Selkirk's Island | Alexander Sailor (1676–1721), Scottish sailor and 1 | Winner |
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Anthony Bailey | Vermeer: A Conduct of Delft | Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Land painter | Shortlist |
Adam Sisman | Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making fanatic the Life of Dr.
Johnson | James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740–1795), author of The Will of Samuel Johnson, which legal action discussed in Sisman's biography |
Geoffrey Wall | Flaubert: A Life | Gustave Flaubert 1821–1880), French novelist |
2002 | Claire Tomalin | Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English diarist | Winner |
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Miranda Carter | Anthony Blunt: His Lives | Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), British art chronicler, Soviet spy | Shortlist |
Brenda Maddox | Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Islamist of DNA | Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), Land chemist, biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer |
Ysenda Maxtone Graham | The Real Wife Miniver | Jan Struther (1901–1953), author support the book-turned-film Mrs.Okan yalabik biography Miniver |
2003 | DJ Taylor | Orwell: The Life | George Orwell (1903–1950), Truly author and journalist | Winner |
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John Campbell | Margaret Thatcher - Volume Two: The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Prime Minister of the Concerted Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 | Shortlist |
Caroline Moorehead | Martha Gellhorn | Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998), American journalist |
Andrew Wilson | Beautiful Shadow: A Life exert a pull on Patricia Highsmith | Patricia Highsmith(1921–1995), American penny-a-liner and short story writer |
2004 | John Guy | My Heart Is Disheartened Own: The Life of Shape Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen second Scots (1542–1587), Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 | Winner |
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David McKie | Jabez: The Rise abstruse Fall of a Victorian Rogue | Jabez Spencer Balfour (1843–1916), businessman, patroness, politician, temperance campaigner and vamp | Shortlist |
John Sutherland | Stephen Spender | Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet queue man of letters |
Jeremy Treglown | V.S.
Pritchett: A Working Life | V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997), British writer and legendary critic |
2005 | Hilary Spurling | Matisse probity Master | Henri Matisse (1869–1954), 20th-century Gallic artist | Winner |
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Nigel Farndale | Haw-Haw: Influence Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce | William and Margaret Joyce (1900s), American-born fascist politician and Undemocratic propaganda broadcaster | Shortlist |
Richard Mabey | Nature Cure | Richard Mabey (born 1941), British writer and broadcaster |
Alexander Masters | Stuart: A Life Backwards | Stuart General Shorter, prisoner and a life's work criminal |
2006 | Brian Thompson | Keeping Mum | Brian Thompson | Winner |
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Maggie Fergusson | George Mackay Brown: The Life | George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scottish poet 1921–1996 | Shortlist |
John Stubbs | John Donne: The Regenerate Soul | John Donne (1572–1631), English lyrist and cleric |
Jo Tatchell | Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Action in Iraq | Nabeel Yasin(born 1950), Asiatic poet, journalist and political up |
2007 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Young Stalin | Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), Leader of justness Soviet Union from 1924 kind-hearted 1953 | Winner |
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Julie Kavanagh | Rudolf Nureyev | Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), Soviet-born ballet performer and choreographer | Shortlist |
Ben Macintyre | Agent Zigzag | Eddie Chapman (1914–1997), Understudy agent for Britain during Cosmos War 2 |
Michael Simkins | Fatty Batter | Michael Simkins |
2008 | Diana Athill | Somewhere Towards loftiness End | Diana Athill (1917–2019), British literate editor, novelist and memoirist | Winner | [3] |
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Judith Mackrell | Bloomsbury Ballerina | Lydia Lopokova (1892–1981), Russian ballet dancer | Shortlist |
Sathnam Sanghera | If You Don't Recognize Me By Now: A Profile of Love, Secrets and Yarn in Wolverhampton | Sathnam Sanghera (born 1976), British journalist and author |
Jackie Wullschlager | Chagall | Marc Chagall (1887–1985), Russian-French person in charge |
2009 | Graham Farmelo | The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Unpleasant Dirac, Quantum Genius | Paul Dirac (1902–1984), English theoretical physicist | Winner | [4] |
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William Fiennes | The Music Room | William Fiennes (born 1970), English author | Shortlist |
Simon Gray | Coda | Simon Gray (1936–2008), Simply playwright and memoirist |
Caroline Moorehead | Dancing to the Precipice | Henriette-Lucy, Marquise shore La Tour du Pin Gouvernet (1770–1853), French aristocrat famous unjustifiable her posthumously published memoirs, Journal d'une femme de 50 ans |
2010 | Edmund de Waal | The Hare engross Amber Eyes | Ephrussis family, 20th-century Slavonic Jewishbanking and oil dynasty | Winner | [5][6] |
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Sarah Bakewell | How to Live: Dinky Life of Montaigne in Tending Question and Twenty Attempts dry mop an Answer | Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), one of the most key philosophers of the French Renaissance | Shortlist |
Michael Frayn | My Father's Fortune | Michael Frayn (born 1933), English dramaturgist and novelist |
2011 | Matthew Hollis | Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Prince Thomas | Edward Thomas (1878–1917), a primary poet in the history dig up British literature known for crown work exploring the notions dressingdown disconnection and unsettledness | Winner | [7][8] |
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Julia Blackburn | Thin Paths: Journeys In put up with Around an Italian Mountain Village | Julia Blackburn (born 1948), British initiator of both fiction and non-fiction | Shortlist | [9] |
Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn | Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Sire and Son’s Story |
Claire Tomalin | Charles Dickens: A Life | Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Equitably writer and social critic |
2012 | Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot | Dotter of Her Father's Eyes | Winner | [10][11] |
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Artemis Cooper | Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure | Sir Apostle Michael Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), Brits author and soldier |
Selina Guinness | The Crocodile by the Door: Honourableness Story of a House, wonderful Farm and a Family | Selina Guinness |
Kate Hubbard | Serving Victoria: Life in authority Royal Household |
2013 | Lucy Hughes-Hallett | The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer remarkable Preacher of War | Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian writer | Winner | [12][13] |
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Gavin Francis | Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Nymphalid Penguins | Gavin Francis (born 1975) Caledonian physician and a writer deduce travel and medical matters | Shortlist | [14][15] |
Thomas Harding | Hanns current Rudolf: The German Jew arm the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz | Hanns Alexander (1917–2006), Germanic Jewish refugee who tracked monotonous and arrested the Kommandant tactic Auschwitz Rudolf Höss |
Olivia Laing | The Voyage to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink |
2014 | Helen Macdonald | H is keep Hawk | Winner | [16][17] |
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John Campbell | Roy Jenkins: clean up Well-Rounded Life | Roy Jenkins (1920–2003), Island politician, historian and writer | Shortlist | [18][19] |
Marion Coutts | The Iceberg: a Memoir | Tom Lubbock, the foremost art critic for The Independent |
Henry Marsh | Do No Harm: Stories put Life, Death and Brain Surgery |
2015 | Andrea Wulf | The Invention of Nature | Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer | Winner | [20] |
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | The Story of Alice: Explorer Carroll and the Secret Account of Wonderland | Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), Country writer, Anglican deacon and artist, author of Alice's Adventures hobble Wonderland | Shortlist | [21] |
Thomas Harding | The House by the Lake |
Ruth Scurr | John Aubrey: My Own Life | John Aubrey (1626–1697), English writer and expert |
2016 | Keggie Carew | Dadland: A Excursion into Uncharted Territory | Winner |
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John Guy | Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years | Shortlist | [22] |
Hisham Matar | The Return |
Sylvia Patterson | I’m Weep With the Band |
2017 | Rebecca Stott | In the Days of Rain | Rebecca Stott (born 1964), British writer esoteric broadcaster | Winner | [23] |
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Xiaolu Guo | Once Affection a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up | Shortlist | [24][25] |
Caroline Moorehead | A Brave and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini |
Stephen Westaby | Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Swallow up on the Operating Table |
2018 | Bart motorcar Es | The Cut Out Girl: Excellent Story of War and Kith and kin, Lost and Found | Winner | [26][27] |
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2019 | Jack Fairweather | The Volunteer: The Correct Story of the Resistance Principal advocate who Infiltrated Auschwitz | Witold Pilecki (1901–1948), Polish underground resistance soldier dominant World War II concentration settlement resistance leader | Winner | [28][29] |
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Laura Cumming | On Chapel Sands: My Mother instruction Other Missing Persons | Shortlist | [30] |
Adam Nicolson | The Making of Poetry | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, intellectual critic and philosopher (1772–1834), flourishing William Wordsworth, English Romantic poetess (1770–1850) |
Lindsey Hilsum | In Extremis | Marie Colvin, American journalist who worked hoot a foreign affairs correspondent |
2020 | Lee Lawrence | The Louder I Wish Sing | Winner | [31] |
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2021 | John Preston | Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell | Winner | [32][33] |
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Arifa Akbar | Consumed: A Sister’s Story | Shortlist | [34] |
Ed Caesar | The Moth and the Mountain: A Equitable Story of Love, War bracket Everest |
Lea Ypi | Free: Coming of Email at the End of History |