James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2008

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families Winner

Michael Holroyd

Arthur Miller 1915-1962

Christopher Bigsby

Gabriel Garcia Márquez: A Life

Gerald Martin

Edward Carpenter: A life of Liberty and Love

Sheila Rowbotham

Chagall: Love and Exile

Jackie Wullschlager

2007

God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Winner

Rosemary Hill

Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell

Michael Gray

Edith Wharton

Hermione Lee

Young Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore

John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand

Richard Reeves.

2006

The Man who Went Into the West: The Life of RS Thomas Winner

Byron Rogers

George Mackay Brown: The Life

Maggie Fergusson

John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity

Gillian Darley

Bad Faith: a Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland

Carmen Callil

2005

• Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream Sue Prideaux Winner
• Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography Max Egremont
• Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce Nigel Farndale
• The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievements of Horatio Nelson Roger Knight
• Stuart: A Life Backwards Alexander Masters
• Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom Roger Pearson

2004

• John Clare a Biography Jonathan Bate Winner
• Eichmann: His Life and Crimes David Cesarani
• Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson Jonathan Coe
• A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream Nicola Lacey
• Nelson: A Dream of Glory John Sugden
• Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist 1884-1920 Michael W Young

2003

• Charles Darwin: Vol 2 - The Power of Place Janet Browne Winner
• White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India William Dalrymple
• Martha Gellhorn: A Life Caroline Moorehead

2002

• The Lunar Men: The Friends who made the future 1730-1810 Jenny Uglow Winner
• Anthony Blunt: His lives Miranda Carter
• Silvertown: An East End family memoir Melanie McGrath
• Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats Ann Saddlemyer
• Flaubert: A Life Geoffrey Wall

2001

• John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1927-1946 Robert Skidelsky Winner
• Hitler 1936-45: Nemesis Ian Kershaw
• Frantz Fanon: a life David Macey
• Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan privateer James McDermott
• The Past in hiding Mark Roseman

2000

• Experience Martin Amis Winner
• Rimbaud Graham Robb
• The pale Abyssinian: a life of James Bruce, African explorer and adventurer Miles Bredin
• The Broken tower: the life of Hart Crane Paul Mariani

1999

• George Eliot: The Last Victorian Kathryn Hughes Winner
• John Soane: An Accidental Romantic Gillian Darley
• Lady Mary Wortley Montague: Comet of the Enlightenment Isobel Grundy
• Isaiah Berlin: A Life Michael Ignatieff
• Mandela: The Authorised biography Anthony Sampson

1998

• The Life of Thomas More Peter Ackroyd Winner
• D.H. Lawrence: Dying game 1922-1930 David Ellis
• The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, lover, rebel, spy Kenneth R. Johnston
• Victor Hugo Graham Robb
• The Trials of Radclyffe Hall Diana Souhami

1997

• W. B. Yeats: A Life (Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914) R. F. Foster Winner
• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life Jon Lee Anderson
• Standing in the sun: A Life of J.M.W. Turner Anthony Bailey
• The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the handover of Hong Kong Jonathan Dimbleby
• Turner: A Life James Hamilton