2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner
![The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580981831-3766-image-3.jpg)
The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas
Byron Rogers
Presenting the life of one of 20th century English literature’s greatest poets, this is a hilarious story of a singular man. Here the author unearths the story of R.S. Thomas’s life, and that of his household – one both comic, absurd and touching….
2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Shortlist
![Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580873150-838-image-3.jpg)
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland
Carmen Callil
![George Mackay Brown: The Life](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581016662-5215-image-3.jpg)
George Mackay Brown: The Life
Maggie Fergusson
![John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581048782-7593-image-3.jpg)
John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity
Gillian Darley
![Mellon: An American Life](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580980317-3641-image-3.jpg)
Mellon: An American Life
David Cannadine
![The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to Tibet](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581011445-4784-image-3.jpg)