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FOR BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1971-2003 |
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FOR BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1971-2003 |
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The Whitbread Book Awards, established in 1971, aim to celebrate and promote the best of British writing. The winners of the Awards for Poetry, Biography, Novel and First Novel are selected in each case by a panel of three judges.The Biography award for 2002 was announced on January 8, 2003
| 2003 | DJ Taylor | Orwell: The Life |
| 2002 | Claire Tomalin | Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self |
| 2001 | Diana Souhami | Selkirk's Island |
| 2000 | Lorna Sage | Bad Blood: A Memoir |
| 1999 | David Cairns | Berlioz: Vol. Two |
| 1998 | Amanda Foreman | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire |
| 1997 | Graham Robb | Victor Hugo |
| 1996 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Thomas Cranmer: A Life |
| 1995 | Roy Jenkins | Gladstone |
| 1994 | Brenda Maddox | D.H. Lawrence: The Married Man |
| 1993 | Andrew Motion | Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life |
| 1992 | Victoria Glendinning | Trollope |
| 1991 | John Richardson | A Life of Picasso |
| 1990 | Ann Thwaite | A.A. Milne: His Life |
| 1989 | Richard Holmes | Coleridge: Early Visions |
| 1988 | A.N. Wilson | Tolstoy |
| 1987 | Christopher Nolan | Under the Eye of the Clock |
| 1986 | Richard Mabey | Gilbert White |
| 1985 | Ben Pimiott | Hugh Dalton |
| 1984 | Peter Ackroyd | T.S. Eliot |
| 1983 | Victoria Glendinning | Vita |
| 1983 | Kenneth Rose | King George V |
| 1982 | Edward Crankshaw | Bismark |
| 1981 | Nigel Hamilton | Monty: The Making of a General |
| 1980 | David Newsome | On the Edge of Paradise |
| 1979 | Penelope Mortimer | About Time |
| 1978 | John Grigg | Lloyd George: The People's Champion |
| 1977 | Nigel Nicholson | Mary Curzon |
| 1976 | Winifred Gerin | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 1975 | Helen Corke | In Our Fancy |
| 1974 | Andrew Boyle | Poor Dear Brendan |
| 1973 | John Wilson | CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
| 1972 | James Pope-Hennessey | Trollope |
| 1971 | Michael Meyer | Henrik Ibsen |
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