2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

John Clare: A Biography

Jonathan Bate

The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme “poets’ poet” John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and u…

A Life Of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare And The Noble Dream

Nicola Lacey

Eichmann: His Life and Crimes

David Cesarani

Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story Of B. S. Johnson

Jonathan Coe

Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884-1920

Michael W. Young

Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797

John Sugden