WHITBREAD PRIZE for BIOGRAPHY

Established in 1971 the Whitbread Book Awards aim to celebrate and promote the best of contemporary British writing. Sponsored by Whitbread PLC.

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• 2003 Orwell: The Life D J Taylor
• 2002 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin
• 2001 Selkirk's Island Diana Souhami
• 2000 Bad Blood: A Memoir Lorna Sage (942.93 SAG)
• 1999 Berlioz, volume 2 David Cairns (780.92 BER)
• 1998 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Amanda Foreman (941.073 DEV)
• 1997 Victor Hugo Graham Robb (843.78 ROB)
• 1996 Thomas Cranmer: A Life Diarmaid MacCulloch (942.05 CRA)
• 1995 Gladstone Roy Jenkins (941.081 GLA)
• 1994 The Married Man: A Life of D H Lawrence Brenda Maddox (823.912 LAW)
• 1993 Philip Larkin Andrew Motion (821.914 LAR)
• 1992 Trollope Victoria Glendinning (823.87 TRO)
• 1991 A Life of Picasso John Richardson (and Book of the Year) (759.6 PIC)
• 1990 A A Milne: His Life Ann Thwaite (and Book of the Year) (828.912 MIL)
• 1989 Coleridge: Early Visions Richard Holmes (and Book of the Year) (821.72 HOL)
• 1988 Tolstoy A N Wilson (891.733 TOL)
• 1987 Under the Eye of the Clock Christopher Nolan (and Book of the Year) (828.914 NOL)
• 1986 Gilbert White Richard Mabey
• 1985 Hugh Dalton Pen Pimlott
• 1984 T S Eliot Peter Ackroyd (821.91 ELI)
• 1983 King George V Kenneth Rose (941.083 GEO)
• 1983 Vita Victoria Glendinning (828.912 SAC)
• 1982 Bismarck Edward Crankshaw (943.08 BIS)
• 1981 Monty: The Making of a General Nigel Hamilton (940.53 MON)
• 1980 On the Edge of Paradise: A C Benson the Diarist David Newsome