Biography
Winner:
- Brian Thompson, Keeping Mum
Shortlist:
- Maggie Fergusson, George Mackay Brown: The Life
- John Stubbs, Donne: A Reformed Soul
- Jo Tatchell, Nabeel's Song
Read more about this topic: 2006 Costa Book Awards
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people, if he’s any good.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)