Marsh Biography Award

Given by Marsh Christian Trust

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This Award is presented to the author of the best biography written in the previous two years by a British author.

The judges look for a work that is histrorically important, records singificant näytä lisää human achievement and is representative of the highest standards or writing and research.

The Award has been running since 1987 and is presented biennially.

The official website is here and the LibraryThing Awards page for the shortlisted books can be found here. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (13), Shortlist (15)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2011 (6), 2009 (2), 2007 (3), 2005 (3), 2003 (2), 2001 (2), 1999 (2), 1997 (2), 1995 (1), 1993 (1), 1991 (1), 1989 (1), 1987 (1)

Winner 13

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Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan (tekijä: D. R. Thorpe)2011
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (tekijä: Rosemary Hill)2009
George Mackay Brown: The Life (tekijä: Maggie Fergusson)2007
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart (tekijä: John Guy)2005
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (tekijä: Brenda Maddox)2003
Mandela: The Authorized Biography (tekijä: Anthony Sampson)2001
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 (tekijä: Richard Holmes)1999
Erskine Childers: A Biography (tekijä: Jim Ring)1997
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography (tekijä: Selina Hastings)1995
The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon (tekijä: Patrick Marnham)1993
Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy: A Biography (tekijä: Hugh Cecil)1991
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (tekijä: David Gilmour)1989
Shackleton (tekijä: Roland Huntford)1987

Shortlist 15

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How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (tekijä: Sarah Bakewell)2011
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies: A Life (tekijä: John Carey)2011
Frances Partridge: The Biography (tekijä: Anne Chisholm)2011
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (tekijä: Andrew Graham-Dixon)2011
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl (tekijä: Donald Sturrock)2011
A dangerous liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (tekijä: Carole Seymour-Jones)2009
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery (tekijä: Wendy Moore)2007
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom (tekijä: Roger Pearson)2007
Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy (tekijä: Ian Kelly)2005
Ice Road (tekijä: Gillian Slovo)2005
Aldous Huxley (tekijä: Nicholas Murray)2003
Ruhtinas Potemkin ja Katariina Suuri (tekijä: Simon Sebag-Montefiore)2001
Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual (tekijä: Richard English)1999
David Lean: A Biography (tekijä: Kevin Brownlow)1997
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (tekijä: Kate Williams)

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