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Philip Ward, shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize is 2017 for a proposed biography of Michael Arlen, has written two new titles
Laura Nyro On Track: Every Album Every Song (Sonicbond)Laura Nyro (1947-1997) was one of the most significant figures to emerge from the singer-songwriter boom of the 1960s. She first came to attention when her songs were hits for Barbra Streisand, The Fifth Dimension, Peter, Paul and Mary, and others. But it was on her own…
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TLP winner’s Doris Hare biography published
Kate Crehan’s But Will It Get A Laugh? The Life of Doris Hare in Three Acts, the proposal for which won the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize in 2020, is just out from the Society of Theatre Research. The title is the society’s annual publication, sent to members as part of the subscription package. The blurb: ‘Doris was…
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BURNING MAN WINS PLUTARCH’S BEST BIOGRAPHY AWARD
BURNING MANThe Trials of D.H. Lawrence by FRANCES WILSON Wins the 2022 Plutarch Awardfor Best Biography of 2021 New York, NY; May 15, 2022 – Biographers International Organization (BIO) takes great pleasure in announcing the winner of the 2022 Plutarch Award for the best biography published in the English language in 2021 – the only international prize of its…
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Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2021 Shortlist
Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2021 SHORTLIST We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2021 Prize:Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women by Annabel Abbs (Two Roads)Windswept takes an exhilarating journey from the author’s car-free childhood tramping the Welsh valleys to the remote journeys of extraordinary women who walked to find…
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BIOGRAPHERS’ CLUB TONY LOTHIAN PRIZE 2021
The Biographers’ Club is delighted to announce the winner of the 2021 £2,000 Tony Lothian Prize (sponsored by her daughter, Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch) for the best uncommissioned proposal by a first-time biographer. The judges, Lindsay Duguid, Dan Franklin and Catharine Morris, have awarded the 2021 prize to Sarah Harkness for Alexander Macmillan, Advocate for…
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Member Jane Dismore is a recipient (October 2021) of the Antonia Fraser Award
Jane is delighted to be the recipient of an Antonia Fraser Award (October 2021), a grant for the purpose of research/writing a biography of a woman or women. Her proposed subject is Lady Dorothy Mills (nee Walpole), an early 20th century traveller, writer and novelist and one of the first women Fellows of the Royal Geographic Society. …
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The Shortlist for the 2021 Tony Lothian Prize has been Announced
NOVEMBER 25, 2021 Tony Lothian Prize 2021 Our shortlist for the best proposal for an uncommissioned biography received in 2021 is just announced, and the prize will be awarded at the Biographers’ Club Christmas party on Tuesday 8th December Helen Bain: Court Green – Sylvia Plath in Devon 1961-2 Here is an entirely new account of…
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Tony Lothian Prize in Print
Two books heralded by the Tony Lothian Prize (TLP), given for a proposal for a debut biography, came out in July. Elaine Thornton won the Tony Lothian Prize in 2013, for her proposal for a biography of the family of the German-Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. Her book Giacomo Meyerbeer and his Family: Between Two Worlds…
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Andrew Lownie and the Mountbatten papers
Andrew Lownie, the Biographers’ Club’s founder and president, is persisting in his quest to gain access to the Broadlands archive, containing the diaries and correspondence of Lord and Lady Mountbatten, the subjects of his bestselling The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves. He writes: I have been fighting for 4 years to secure access to the…
