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Department of English LiteratureTHE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZESTHE PRIZE WINNERS
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YEAR OF AWARD |
FICTION | BIOGRAPHY |
2008 |
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture (Faber) |
Michael Holroyd A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families (Chatto & Windus) |
2007 |
Rosalind Belben Our Horses in Egypt (Chatto & Windus) |
Rosemary Hill God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane) |
2006 |
Cormac McCarthy The Road (Picador) |
Byron Rogers The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas (Aurum Press) |
2005 |
Ian McEwan Saturday (Jonathan Cape) |
Sue Prideaux Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream (Yale University Press) |
2004 |
David Peace GB84 (Faber) |
Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography (Picador) |
2003 |
Andrew O'Hagan Personality (Faber) |
Janet Browne Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place (Jonathan Cape) |
2002 |
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections (Fourth Estate) |
Jenny Uglow The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 (Faber) |
2001 |
Sid Smith Something Like a House (Picador) |
Robert Skidelsky John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 Fighting For Britain 1937-1946 (Macmillan) |
2000 |
Zadie Smith White Teeth (Penguin UK) |
Martin Amis Experience (Jonathan Cape) |
1999 |
Timothy Mo Renegade or Halo2 (Paddleless Press) |
Kathryn Hughes George Eliot: The Last Victorian (Fourth Estate) |
1998 |
Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie (Duckworth) |
Peter Ackroyd The Life of Thomas More (Chatto & Windus) |
1997 |
Andrew Miller Ingenious Pain (Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton) |
R.F. Foster W.B. Yeats: A Life Volume1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914 (Hodder & Stoughton) |
1996 |
Joint Award Graham Swift Last Orders (Picador Macmillan) and Alice Thompson Justine (Canongate) |
Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cranmer: A Life (Yale) |
1995 |
Christopher Priest The Prestige (Touchstone) |
Gitta Sereny Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth (Macmillan) |
1994 |
Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star (Chatto & Windus) |
Doris Lessing Under My Skin (Harper Collins) |
1993 |
Caryl Phillips Crossing The River (Bloomsbury) |
Richard Holmes Dr Johnson And Mr Savage (Hodder & Stoughton) |
1992 |
Rose Tremain Sacred Country (Sinclair Stevenson) |
Charles Nicoll The Reckoning: The Murder Of Christopher Marlowe (Jonathan Cape) |
1991 |
Iain Sinclair Downriver (Michael Joseph) |
Adrian Desmond and James Moore Darwin (Paladin) |
1990 |
William Boyd Brazzaville Beach (Sinclair Stevenson) |
Claire Tomalin The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens (Viking) |
1989 |
James Kelman A Disaffection (Secker & Warburg) |
Ian Gibson Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life (Faber & Faber) |
1988 |
Piers Paul Read A Season In The West (Secker & Warburg) |
Brian McGuinness
Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921) (Duckworth) |
1987 |
George Mackay Brown The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories (John Murray) |
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Victor Gollancz: A Biography (Victor Gollancz) |
1986 |
Jenny Joseph Persephone (Bloodaxe Books) |
D. Felicitas Corrigan Helen Waddell (Victor Gollancz) |
1985 |
Robert Edric Winter Garden (André Deutsch) |
David Nokes Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (OUP) |
1984 |
Joint Award: J. G. Ballard Empire Of The Sun (Gollancz) and Angela Carter Nights At The Circus (Chatto & Windus) |
Lyndall Gordon Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (OUP) |
1983 |
Jonathan Keates Allegro Postillions (Salamander Press) |
Alan Walker Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years (Faber) |
1982 |
Bruce Chatwin On The Black Hill (Cape) |
Richard Ellmann James Joyce (OUP) |
1981 |
Joint Award: Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children (Cape) and Paul Theroux The Mosquito Coast (Hamish Hamilton) |
Victoria Glendinning Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions (Weidenfeld) |
1980 |
J. M. Coetzee Waiting For The Barbarians (Secker & Warburg) |
Robert B. Martin Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (OUP) |
1979 |
William Golding Darkness Visible (Faber) |
Brian Finney Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography (Faber) |
1978 |
Maurice Gee Plumb (Faber) |
Robert Gittings The Older Hardy (Heinemann Educational) |
1977 |
John Le Carré The Honourable Schoolboy (Hodder & Stoughton) |
George Painter Chateaubriand, Vol.1: The Longed-For Tempests (Chatto & Windus) |
1976 |
John Banville Doctor Copernicus (Secker & Warburg) |
Ronald Hingley A New Life Of Chekhov (OUP) |
1975 |
Brian Moore The Great Victorian Collection (Cape) |
Karl Miller Cockburn's Millennium (Duckworth) |
1974 |
Lawrence Durrell Monsieur, Or The Prince Of Darkness |
John Wain Samuel Johnson |
1973 |
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince |
Robin Lane Fox Alexander The Great |
1972 |
John Berger G |
Quentin Bell Virginia Woolf |
1971 |
Nadine Gordimer A Guest Of Honour |
Julia Namier Lewis Namier |
1970 |
Lily Powell The Bird Of Paradise |
Jasper Ridley Lord Palmerston |
1969 |
Elizabeth Bowen Eva Trout |
Antonia Fraser Mary, Queen Of Scots |
1968 |
Maggie Ross The Gasteropod |
Gordon S. Haight George Eliot |
1967 |
Margaret Drabble Jerusalem The Golden |
Winifred Gérin Charlotte Brontë, The Evolution Of Genius |
1966 |
Joint Award: Christine Brooke-Rose Such and Aidan Higgins Langrishe, Go Down |
Geoffrey Keynes The Life Of William Harvey |
1965 |
Muriel Spark The Mandelbaum Gate |
Mary Moorman William Wordsworth, The Later Years 1803-1850 |
1964 |
Frank Tuohy The Ice Saints |
Elizabeth Longford Victoria R.I. |
1963 |
Gerda Charles A Slanting Light |
Georgina Battiscome John Keble: A Study In Limitations |
1962 |
Ronald Hardy Act Of Destruction |
Meriol Trevor Newman: The Pillar And The Cloud and Newman: Light In Winter |
1961 |
Jennifer Dawson The Ha-Ha |
M. K. Ashby Joseph Ashby Of Tysoe |
1960 |
Rex Warner Imperial Caesar |
Canon Adam Fox The Life Of Dean Inge |
1959 |
Morris West The Devil's Advocate |
Christopher Hassall Edward Marsh |
1958 |
Angus Wilson The Middle Age Of Mrs Eliot |
Joyce Hemlow The History Of Fanny Burney |
1957 |
Anthony Powell At Lady Molly's |
Maurice Cranston Life Of John Locke |
1956 |
Rose Macauley The Towers Of Trebizond |
St John Greer Ervine George Bernard Shaw |
1955 |
Ivy Compton-Burnett Mother And Son |
R. W. Ketton-Cremer Thomas Gray |
1954 |
C. P. Snow The New Men and The Masters in sequence |
Keith Feiling Warren Hastings |
1953 |
Margaret Kennedy Troy Chimneys |
Carola Oman Sir John Moore |
1952 |
Evelyn Waugh Men At Arms |
G. M. Young Stanley Baldwin |
1951 |
W. C. Chapman-Mortimer Father Goose |
Noel G. Annan Leslie Stephen |
1950 |
Robert Henriquez Along The Valley |
Mrs Cecil Woodham-Smith Florence Nightingale |
1949 |
Emma Smith The Far Cry |
John Connell W. E. Henley |
1948 |
Graham Greene The Heart Of The Matter |
Percy A. Scholes The Great Dr Burney |
1947 |
L. P. Hartley Eustace And Hilda |
Rev. C. C. E. Raven English Naturalists From Neckham To Ray |
1946 |
G. Oliver Onions Poor Man's Tapestry |
R. Aldington Wellington |
1945 |
L. A. G. Strong Travellers |
D. S. MacColl Philip Wilson Steer |
1944 |
Forrest Reid Young Tom |
C. V. Wedgwood William The Silent |
1943 |
Mary Lavin Tales From Bectine Bridge |
G. G. Coulton Fourscore Years |
1942 |
Arthur Whaley Monkey By Wu Ch'eng-en |
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary |
1941 |
Joyce Cary A House Of Children |
John Gore King George V |
1940 |
Charles Morgan The Voyage |
Hilda F. M. Prescott Spanish Tudor |
1939 |
Aldous Huxley After Many A Summer Dies The Swan |
David C. Douglas English Scholars |
1938 |
C. S. Forester A Ship Of The Line and Flying Colours |
Sir Edmund Chambers Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
1937 |
Neil M. Gunn Highland River |
Lord Eustace Percy John Knox |
1936 |
Winifred Holtby South Riding |
Edward Sackville West A Flame In Sunlight: The Life And Work Of Thomas de Quincey |
1935 |
L. H. Myers The Root And The Flower |
R. W. Chambers Thomas More |
1934 |
Robert Graves I, Claudius and Claudius The God |
J. E. Neale Queen Elizabeth |
1933 |
A. G. Macdonell England, Their England |
Violet Clifton The Book Of Talbot |
1932 |
Helen Simpson Boomerang |
Stephen Gwynn The Life Of Mary Kingsley |
1931 |
Kate O'Brien Without My Cloak |
J. Y. R. Greig David Hume |
1930 |
E. H. Young Miss Mole |
Francis Yeats Brown Lives Of A Bengal Lancer |
1929 |
J. B. Priestley The Good Companions |
Lord David Cecil The Stricken Deer: Or The Life Of Cowper |
1928 |
Siegfried Sassoon Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man |
John Buchan Montrose |
1927 |
Francis Brett Young Portrait Of Clare |
H. A. L. Fisher James Bryce, Viscount Bryce Of Dechmont, O.M. |
1926 |
Radclyffe Hall Adam's Breed |
Rev. Dr H. B. Workman John Wyclif: A Study Of The English Medieval Church |
1925 |
Liam O'Flaherty The Informer |
Geoffrey Scott The Portrait Of Zelide |
1924 |
E. M. Forster A Passage To India |
Rev. William Wilson The House Of Airlie |
1923 |
Arnold Bennett Riceyman Steps |
Sir Ronald Ross Memoirs, Etc |
1922 |
David Garnett Lady Into Fox |
Percy Lubbock Earlham |
1921 |
Walter de la Mare Memoirs Of A Midget |
Lytton Strachey Queen Victoria |
1920 |
D. H. Lawrence The Lost Girl |
G. M. Trevelyan Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill |
1919 |
Hugh Walpole The Secret City |
H. Festing Jones Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir |
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