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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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Christmas Party and Tony Lothian prize giving 2022
Join us for wine and nibbles at our Christmas party, and for the presentation of the Tony Lothian Prize.
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POSTPONED- NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE NY- Dennis Duncan author of Index, A History of the and Indexer Tanya Izzard In conversation with Adam Sisman.
For our members their book is not complete without an index and for most readers, it’s essential to their full enjoyment of the book. Charting the index’s curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, writer, translator and lecturer in English at UCL, Dennis Duncan, reveals how the index…
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Miranda Seymour – Jean Rhys: I Used To Live Here Once
The Biographers’ Club is delighted to welcome Miranda Seymour, one of the foremost biographers of our time, to discuss her life of Jean Rhys, author of The Wide Sargasso Sea. Seymour will be in conversation with Rachel Cooke, journalist and author of Her Brilliant Career, shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. An obsessive and troubled genius,…
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THE BIOGRAPHERS’ CLUB SUMMER PARTY
Wednesday 15 June, 6.30pm-8.30pm, at Clementi HouseJoin us for drinks and canapés in the beautiful garden of an 18th-century house, graced by the spirits of Muzio Clementi and Felix Mendelssohn, in Kensington. Venue: Clementi House, 128 Kensington Church Street, London W8 4BH Tickets: £20 RSVP and apply for bank details (no cheques, please): [email protected] Clementi House was the London home of…
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Anne de Courcy and Anne Chisholm to discuss the life of Nancy Cunard
About this event Join biographer Anne de Courcy for an evening in celebration of her brand new book “Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: the Paris life of Nancy Cunard”. Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the…
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Exceptional Contribution to Biography: Matthew Parris in conversation with Evan Davies
We are delighted to announce that Matthew Parris – former MP, now columnist and author, and presenter of Radio 4’s Great Lives – is the winner of the Biographers’ Club’s Exceptional Contribution to Biography award. At this special event, he will be in conversation with Evan Davies, presenter of Radio 4’s PM. Date and time: Tuesday, 5 April, 18:30Venue:…
