Biography
Winner:
- Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Shortlist:
- Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives
- Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
- Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Real Mrs Miniver
Read more about this topic: 2002 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people, if he’s any good.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)