SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 1999-2003

  The Samuel Johnson Prize is Britain's most lucrative literary award for nonfiction, worth 30,000 Pounds to the winner. The Prize was established in December 1998 with the intent of celebrating the variety and originality of contemporary nonfiction publishing. It is sponsored by BBC Four. The prize is awarded to a work in the English language published in the UK and written by an author of any nationality in one of the following areas: current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography, and the arts.