Best First Biography Prize

Given by The Biographers' Club

Otros Nombres: Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (Inglés)
58 Obras / 59 Items 21,556 Libros 957 Reseñas 4.2
Awarded by The Biographers' Club. The prize is currently sponsored by Slightly Foxed. http://www.biographers.club/best-first-biography-award/
Stages:
Todos, Winner (16), Shortlist (43)
Years:
Todos, 2023 (6), 2022 (6), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (6), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1)
Announced:
marzo 20: Ganador2023 Reciente

Winner 16

ObraAño
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family por Daniel Finkelstein2023
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne por Katherine Rundell2022
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds por Osman Yousefzada2022
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History por Lea Ypi2021
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath por Heather Clark2020
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin por Jonathan Phillips2019
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found por Bart Van Es2018
The Invention of Angela Carter : A Biography por Edmund Gordon2017
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between por Hisham Matar2016
Not My Father's Son: A Memoir por Alan Cumming2015
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power por Claudia Renton2014
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands por Charles Moore2013
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England por Thomas Penn2012
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas por Matthew Hollis2011
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster por Wendy Moffat2010
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome por Roland Chambers2009

Shortlist 43

ObraAño
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World por Leah Broad2023
Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World por Honor Cargill-Martin2023
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family por Daniel Finkelstein2023
A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents por Aasmah Mir2023
Go the Way Your Blood Beats por Emmett de Monterey2023
Confession of a Highland Art Dealer por Tony Davidson2022
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision por Charles Elton2022
Original Sins: A Memoir por Matt Rowland Hill2022
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome por Harry Sidebottom2022
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women por Annabel Abbs2021
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage por Eileen Atkins2021
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life por Alex Christofi2021
John Craxton por Ian Collins2021
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family por Hadley Freeman2020
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture por Sudhir Hazareesingh2020
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour por Shelley Klein2020
The Berlin Shadow por Jonathan Lichtenstein2020
Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) por Elizabeth Goldring2019
Self-Portrait por Celia Paul2019
Mother Ship por Francesca Segal2019
My Name Is Why por Lemn Sissay2019
The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter por George Szirtes2019
Making Oscar Wilde por Michèle Mendelssohn2018
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean por Roland Philipps2018
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein por Fiona Sampson2018
Educated: A Memoir por Tara Westover2018
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet por Thomas Dilworth2017
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor por Adam Kay2017
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII por Mr. Gareth Russell2017
The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett por Helen Smith2017
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation por James Stourton2017
Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists por David Aaronovitch2016
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir por David Hare2016
A House Full of Daughters por Juliet Nicolson2016
East West Street por Philippe Sands2016
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary por Anita Anand2015
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir por Michael Bundock2015
Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr por Lyndsey Jenkins2015
Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett por Sarah Knights2015
Faisal I of Iraq por Ali A. Allawi2014
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties por Rachel Cooke2014
Ante todo no hagas daño por Henry Marsh2014
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814 por Rory Muir2014

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