The Biographers’ Club has given its Exceptional Contribution to Biography award to Anne de Courcy. She received the award at the Biographers’ Club Christmas Party at Albany.
Jane Ridley, chair of the club, marvelled that de Courcy, who had led a busy life as a journalist, could also have produced 11 biographies. She cited in particular de Courcy’s “ground-breaking” life of Lord Snowdon, and her generous support for aspiring as well as established biographers.
Previous winners of the Exceptional Contribution award have included Michael Holroyd, Selina Hastings, Claire Tomalin and Hermione Lee. The 2022 winner was AN Wilson.
