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MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY |
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The James Tate Black Memorial Prizes for Fiction and Biography were founded in memory of a partner in the publishing house of A. & C. Black Ltd. These annual awards, first made in 1919, are two of the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain. The awards are administered by the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Eligible works are those written in English, originating with a British publisher, and first published in the 12-month period prior to the submission date (30 September). The nationality of the writer is irrelevant. The prize winners for Biography follow; the winners of the fiction prize are also listed at this site. The Award for 2002 was Announced on September 5, 2003.
| 2002 | Jenny Uglow | The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future |
| 2001 | Robert Skidelsky | John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1927-1946 |
| 2000 | Martin Amis | Experience: A Memoir |
| 1999 | Kathryn Hughes | George Eliot: The Last Victorian |
| 1998 | Peter Ackroyd | The Life of Thomas More |
| 1997 | R. F. Foster | W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 |
| 1996 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Thomas Cranmer: A Life |
| 1995 | Gitta Sereny | Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth |
| 1994 | Doris Lessing | Under My Skin |
| 1993 | Richard Holmes | Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage |
| 1992 | Charles Nicoll | The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe |
| 1991 | Adrian Desmond & James Moore | Darwin |
| 1990 | Claire Tomalin | The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens |
| 1989 | Ian Gibson | Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life |
| 1988 | Brian McGuinness | Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921) |
| 1987 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Victor Gollancz: A Biography |
| 1986 | D. Felicitas Corrigan | Helen Waddell |
| 1985 | David Nokes | Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed |
| 1984 | Lyndall Gordon | Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life |
| 1983 | Alan Walker | Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years |
| 1982 | Richard Ellman | James Joyce |
| 1981 | Victoria Glendinning | Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions |
| 1980 | Robert B. Martin | Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart |
| 1979 | Brian Finney | Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography |
| 1978 | Robert Gittings | The Older Hardy |
| 1977 | George Painter | Chateaubriand, Vol. 1: The Longed-For Tempests |
| 1976 | Ronald Hingley | A New Life of Chekhov |
| 1975 | Karl Miller | Cockburn's Millenium |
| 1974 | John Wain | Samuel Johnson |
| 1973 | Robert Lane Fox | Alexander The Great |
| 1972 | Quentin Bell | Virginia Woolf |
| 1971 | Julia Namier | Lewis Namier |
| 1970 | Jasper Ridley | Lord Palmerston |
| 1969 | Antonia Fraser | Mary, Queen of Scots |
| 1968 | Gordon S. Haight | George Eliot |
| 1967 | Winifred Gerin | Charlotte Bronte, The Evolution of Genius |
| 1966 | Geoffrey Keynes | The Life of William Harvey Such |
| 1965 | Mary Moorman | William Wordsworth, The Later Years, 1803-1850 |
| 1964 | Elizabeth Longford | Victoria R.I. |
| 1963 | Georgina Battiscome | John Keble: A Study in Limitations |
| 1962 | Meriol Trevor | Newman: The Pillar and the Cloud & Newman: Light in Winter |
| 1961 | M. K. Ashby | Joseph Ashby of Tysoe |
| 1960 | Adam Fox | The Life of Dean Inge |
| 1959 | Christopher Hassall | Edward Marsh |
| 1958 | Joyce Hemlow | The History of Fanny Burney |
| 1957 | Maurice Cranston | Life of John Locke |
| 1956 | St. John Greer Ervine | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1955 | R.W. Ketton-Cremer | Thomas Gray |
| 1954 | Keith Feiling | Warren Hastings |
| 1953 | Carola Oman | Sir John Moore |
| 1952 | G.M. Young | Stanley Baldwin |
| 1951 | Noel G. Annan | Leslie Stephen |
| 1950 | Mrs. Cecil Woodham-Smith | Florence Nightingale |
| 1949 | John Connell | W.E. Henley |
| 1948 | Percy A. Scholes | The Great Dr. Burney |
| 1947 | Rev. C. C. E. Raven | English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray |
| 1946 | R. Aldington | Wellington |
| 1945 | D. S. MacColl | Philip Wilson Steer |
| 1944 | C.V. Wedgwood | William the Silent |
| 1943 | G. G. Coulton | Fourscore Years |
| 1942 | Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede | Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary |
| 1941 | John Gore | King George V |
| 1940 | F.M. Prescott | Spanish Tudor |
| 1939 | David C. Douglas | English Scholars |
| 1938 | Sir Edmund Chambers | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| 1937 | Lord Eustace Percy | John Knox |
| 1936 | Edward Sackville West | A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of Thomas de Quincey |
| 1935 | R.W.Chambers | Thomas More |
| 1934 | J. E. Neale | Queen Elizabeth |
| 1933 | Violet Clifton | The Book of Talbot |
| 1932 | Stephen Gwynn | The Life of Mary Kingsley |
| 1931 | J. Y. R. Greig | David Hume |
| 1930 | Francis Yeats Brown | Lives of a Bengal Lancer |
| 1929 | Lord David Cecil | The Stricken Deer: Or the Life of Cowper |
| 1928 | John Buchan | Montrose |
| 1927 | H. A. L. Fisher | James Bryce, Viscount Bryse of Dechmont, O.M. |
| 1926 | Rev. Dr. H.B. Workman | John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church |
| 1925 | Geoffrey Scott | The Portrait of Zelide |
| 1924 | William Wilson | The House of Airlie |
| 1923 | Sir Ronald Ross | Memoirs, Etc. |
| 1922 | Percy Lubbock | Earlham |
| 1921 | Lytton Strachey | Queen Victoria |
| 1920 | G.M. Trevelyan | Lord Grey of the Reform Bill |
| 1919 | H. Festing Jones | Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir |
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