Book Awards By Year

2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian ImaginationFiona MacCarthyIn Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic aud...Amazon2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistBen Jonson: A LifeIan DonaldsonAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazonNikolaus Pevsner: The LifeSusie HarriesAmazon

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the CountercultureTanya HarrodBritish studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. After graduating from Oxford in 1923, he made majestic slipwar...Amazon2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistCirculation: William Harvey's Revolutionary IdeaThomas WrightAmazonJoseph Anton: A MemoirSalman RushdieAmazonPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazon