Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography 2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture Tanya Harrod Amazon 2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy Amazon 2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China Hilary Spurling Amazon 2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies John Carey Amazon 2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families Michael Holroyd Amazon 2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Rosemary Hill Amazon 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas Byron Rogers Amazon 2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream Sue Prideaux Amazon 2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography John Clare: A Biography Jonathan Bate Amazon 2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Charles Darwin: The Power of Place Janet Browne Amazon 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future Jenny Uglow Amazon 2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946 Robert Skidelsky Amazon 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Experience: A Memoir Martin Amis Amazon 1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography George Eliot: The Last Victorian Kathryn Hughes Amazon 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography The Life of Thomas More Peter Ackroyd Amazon 1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography W.B. Yeats: A Life: Volume 1. The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 R.F. Foster Amazon 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Thomas Cranmer: A Life Diarmaid MacCulloch Amazon 1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth Gitta Sereny Amazon 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Under My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949 Doris May Lessing Amazon 1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage Richard Holmes Amazon 1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe Charles Nicholl Amazon 1991 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Adrian Desmond, James Moore Amazon 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens Claire Tomalin Amazon 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life Ian Gibson Amazon 1988 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein’s Life, 1889-1921 Brian McGuinness Amazon 1987 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Victor Gollancz: A Biography Ruth Dudley Edwards Amazon 1986 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Helen Waddell: A Biography Felicitas Corrigan Amazon 1985 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed, A Critical Biography David Nokes Amazon 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life Lyndall Gordon Amazon 1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Franz Liszt: Volume 1. The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 Alan Walker Amazon 1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography James Joyce Richard Ellmann Amazon 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions Victoria Glendinning Amazon 1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart Robert Bernard Martin Amazon 1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography Brian Finney Amazon 1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography The Older Hardy Robert Gittings Amazon 1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Chateaubriand: The Longed-for Tempests, 1768-1793 George D. Painter Amazon 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov Ronald Hingley Amazon 1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Cockburn’s Millennium Karl Miller Amazon