Biography
Winner:
- John Guy, My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
Shortlist:
- John Guy, My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
- David McKie, Jabez - The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue
- John Sutherland, Stephen Spender
- Jeremy Treglown, V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life
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Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“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 (1892–1983)
“Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.”
—James Boswell (1740–95)