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RECENT PRIZE WINNING BIOGRAPHIES
BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
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2021: Keefe, Patrick Radden. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.
2020: Brown, Craig. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret.
2016: Sands, Philippe. East West Street: Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.
COSTA BOOK AWARDS
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2021: Preston, John. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell.
2019: Fairweather, Jack. Volunteer: The The Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz.
2018: Van Es, Bart. The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found.
2017: Stott, Rebecca. In the Days of Rain.
2016: Carew, Keggie. Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory.
DUFF COOPER PRIZE
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2018: Jackson, Julian. A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle.
FT MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
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2016: Mallaby, Sebastian. The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan.
HATCHARDS & BIOGRAPHERS’ CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE
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2023: Finkelstein, Daniel. Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival. 2023.
JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
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2020: Ni Ghriofa, Doireann. A Ghost in the Throat.
2019: Szirtes, George. The Photographer at Sixteen.
2018: Hilsum, Lindsey. In Extremis: The Life and Death of Marie Colvin.
2017: Brown, Craig. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret.
2016: Cumming, Laura. The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez.
ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING
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2017: Bew, John. Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee.
PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
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2021: Payne, Les & Tamara. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
2020: Moser, Benjamin. Sontag: Her Life.
2019: Stewart, Jeffrey. New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke.
2018: Fraser, Caroline. Praire Fires: The American Dreams of Lura Ingalls Wilder.
2017: Matar, Hisham. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between.
ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
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2016: Wulf, Andrea. The Adventures of Alexander von Humbolt, the Lost Hero of Science.
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