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Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Shortlist
Date: Tuesday 14th March 2023. Time: 6.15pm for 6.30pm to 8pm
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AN Wilson wins Exceptional Contribution award – come and hear him in conversation with Jane Ridley
Date: Thursday 26th January Time: 6.30pm Price: £12.50
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Catherine Haig wins Tony Lothian Prize 2022
Congratulations to Catherine Haig, who has won the £2,000 Tony Lothian Prize, for a proposal for an uncommissioned biography, for An Unfinished Life – Lady Gwendolen Cecil (1860–1945). Haig received the prize at the Biographers’ Club Christmas party, held at Albany, London. Haig’s proposal is about Lord Salisbury’s second daughter, who took on the daunting…
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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. …
