Marsh Biography Award

Given by Marsh Christian Trust

28 oeuvres 8,712 Livres 217 critiques 4.0
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 afficher plus 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. afficher moins
Stages:
Tous, Winner (13), Shortlist (15)
Années:
Tous, 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

ŒuvreAnnée
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan par D. R. Thorpe2011
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain par Rosemary Hill2009
George Mackay Brown: The Life par Maggie Fergusson2007
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart par John Guy2005
Rosalind Franklin : La Dark Lady de l'ADN par Brenda Maddox2003
Mandela: The Authorized Biography par Anthony Sampson2001
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 par Richard Holmes1999
Erskine Childers: A Biography par Jim Ring1997
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography par Selina Hastings1995
L'homme qui n'était pas Maigret par Patrick Marnham1993
Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy: A Biography par Hugh Cecil1991
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa par David Gilmour1989
Shackleton par Roland Huntford1987

Shortlist 15

ŒuvreAnnée
Comment vivre ? - une vie de Montaigne en une question et vingt tentatives de réponse par Sarah Bakewell2011
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies: A Life par John Carey2011
Frances Partridge: The Biography par Anne Chisholm2011
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane par Andrew Graham-Dixon2011
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl par Donald Sturrock2011
A dangerous liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre par Carole Seymour-Jones2009
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery par Wendy Moore2007
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom par Roger Pearson2007
Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy par Ian Kelly2005
Ice Road par Gillian Slovo2005
Aldous Huxley par Nicholas Murray2003
Catherine the Great and Potemkin par Simon Sebag-Montefiore2001
Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual par Richard English1999
David Lean: A Biography par Kevin Brownlow1997
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton par Kate Williams

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