List of Recipients
| Year | Fiction Award | Year | Biography Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | Hugh Walpole, The Secret City | 1919 | Henry Festing Jones, Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir (Samuel Butler) |
| 1920 | D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl | 1920 | G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill (Earl Grey) |
| 1921 | Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget | 1921 | Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria (Queen Victoria) |
| 1922 | David Garnett, Lady into Fox | 1922 | Percy Lubbock, Earlham |
| 1923 | Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps | 1923 | Ronald Ross, Memoirs, Etc. (autobiography) |
| 1924 | E. M. Forster, A Passage to India | 1924 | William Wilson, The House of Airlie (The Earls of Airlie) |
| 1925 | Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer | 1925 | Geoffrey Scott, The Portrait of Zelide (Isabelle de Charrière) |
| 1926 | Radclyffe Hall, Adam's Breed | 1926 | Reverend Dr H. B. Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church (John Wyclif) |
| 1927 | Francis Brett Young, Portrait of Clare | 1927 | H. A. L. Fisher, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M. (James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce) |
| 1928 | Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man | 1928 | John Buchan, Montrose (James Graham) |
| 1929 | J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions | 1929 | Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper (William Cowper) |
| 1930 | E. H. Young, Miss Mole | 1930 | Francis Yeats-Brown, Lives of a Bengal Lancer (autobiography) |
| 1931 | Kate O'Brien, Without My Cloak | 1931 | J. Y. T. Greig, David Hume (David Hume) |
| 1932 | Helen de Guerry Simpson, Boomerang | 1932 | Stephen Gwynn, The Life of Mary Kingsley (Mary Kingsley) |
| 1933 | A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England | 1933 | Violet Clifton, The Book of Talbot (John Talbot Clifton) |
| 1934 | Robert Graves, I, Claudius and Claudius the God | 1934 | J. E. Neale, Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth I of England) |
| 1935 | L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower | 1935 | Raymond Wilson Chambers, Thomas More (Thomas More) |
| 1936 | Winifred Holtby, South Riding | 1936 | Edward Sackville West, A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of Thomas de Quincey (Thomas de Quincey) |
| 1937 | Neil M. Gunn, Highland River | 1937 | Lord Eustace Percy, John Knox (John Knox) |
| 1938 | C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours | 1938 | Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) |
| 1939 | Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan | 1939 | David C. Douglas, English Scholars |
| 1940 | Charles Morgan, The Voyage | 1940 | Hilda F. M. Prescott, Spanish Tudor: Mary I of England (Mary I of England) |
| 1941 | Joyce Cary, A House of Children | 1941 | John Gore, King George V (George V) |
| 1942 | Arthur Waley, Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng'en | 1942 | Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary (Henry Ponsonby) |
| 1943 | Mary Lavin, Tales from Bective Bridge | 1943 | G. G. Coulton, Fourscore Years (autobiography) |
| 1944 | Forrest Reid, Young Tom | 1944 | C. V. Wedgwood, William the Silent (William the Silent) |
| 1945 | L. A. G. Strong, Travellers | 1945 | D. S. MacColl, Philip Wilson Steer (Philip Wilson Steer) |
| 1946 | Oliver Onions, Poor Man's Tapestry | 1946 | Richard Aldington, A Life of Wellington: The Duke (Arthur Wellesley) |
| 1947 | L. P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda | 1947 | Rev. C. C. E. Raven, English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray (Alexander Neckam and John Ray) |
| 1948 | Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter | 1948 | Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr. Burney (Charles Burney) |
| 1949 | Emma Smith, The Far Cry | 1949 | John Connell, W. E. Henley (W. E. Henley) |
| 1950 | Robert Henriques, Through the Valley | 1950 | Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale (Florence Nightingale) |
| 1951 | Chapman Mortimer, Father Goose | 1951 | Noel Annan, Leslie Stephen (Leslie Stephen) |
| 1952 | Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms | 1952 | G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin (Stanley Baldwin) |
| 1953 | Margaret Kennedy, Troy Chimneys | 1953 | Carola Oman, Sir John Moore (John Moore) |
| 1954 | C. P. Snow, The New Men and The Masters | 1954 | Keith Feiling, Warren Hastings (Warren Hastings) |
| 1955 | Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son | 1955 | R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Thomas Gray (Thomas Gray) |
| 1956 | Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond | 1956 | St John Greer Ervine, George Bernard Shaw (George Bernard Shaw) |
| 1957 | Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's | 1957 | Maurice Cranston, Life of John Locke (John Locke) |
| 1958 | Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot | 1958 | Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney (Fanny Burney) |
| 1959 | Morris West, The Devil's Advocate | 1959 | Christopher Hassall, Edward Marsh (Edward Marsh) |
| 1960 | Rex Warner, Imperial Caesar | 1960 | Canon Adam Fox, The Life of Dean Inge (Dean Inge) |
| 1961 | Jennifer Dawson, The Ha-Ha | 1961 | M. K. Ashby, Joseph Ashby of Tysoe (Joseph Ashby) |
| 1962 | Ronald Hardy, Act of Destruction | 1962 | Meriol Trevor, Newman: The Pillar and the Cloud and Newman: Light in Winter (John Henry Newman) |
| 1963 | Gerda Charles, A Slanting Light | 1963 | Georgina Battiscombe, John Keble: A Study in Limitations (John Keble) |
| 1964 | Frank Tuohy, The Ice Saints | 1964 | Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I. (Queen Victoria) |
| 1965 | Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate | 1965 | Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: The Later Years 1803-1850 (William Wordsworth) |
| 1966 | Christine Brooke-Rose, Such, and Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down | 1966 | Geoffrey Keynes, The Life of William Harvey (William Harvey) |
| 1967 | Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem The Golden | 1967 | Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius (Charlotte Brontë) |
| 1968 | Maggie Ross, The Gasteropod | 1968 | Gordon Haight, George Eliot (George Eliot) |
| 1969 | Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout | 1969 | Antonia Fraser, Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary, Queen of Scots) |
| 1970 | Lily Powell, The Bird of Paradise | 1970 | Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston) |
| 1971 | Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour | 1971 | Julia Namier, Lewis Namier (Lewis Namier) |
| 1972 | John Berger, G | 1972 | Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf (Virginia Woolf) |
| 1973 | Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince | 1973 | Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great (Alexander the Great) |
| 1974 | Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur: or, The Prince of Darkness | 1974 | John Wain, Samuel Johnson (Samuel Johnson) |
| 1975 | Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection | 1975 | Karl Miller, Cockburn's Millennium (Henry Cockburn) |
| 1976 | John Banville, Doctor Copernicus | 1976 | Ronald Hingley, A New Life of Chekhov (Chekhov) |
| 1977 | John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy | 1977 | George Painter, Chateaubriand: Volume 1 - The Longed-For Tempests (François-René de Chateaubriand) |
| 1978 | Maurice Gee, Plumb | 1978 | Robert Gittings, The Older Hardy (Thomas Hardy) |
| 1979 | William Golding, Darkness Visible | 1979 | Brian Finney, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography (Christopher Isherwood) |
| 1980 | J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians | 1980 | Robert B. Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (Alfred Tennyson) |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, and Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast | 1981 | Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions (Edith Sitwell) |
| 1982 | Bruce Chatwin, On The Black Hill | 1982 | Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (James Joyce) |
| 1983 | Jonathan Keates, Allegro Postillions | 1983 | Alan Walker, Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years (Franz Liszt) |
| 1984 | J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun, and Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus | 1984 | Lyndall Gordon, Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (Virginia Woolf) |
| 1985 | Robert Edric, Winter Garden | 1985 | David Nokes, Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (Jonathan Swift) |
| 1986 | Jenny Joseph, Persephone | 1986 | Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Helen Waddell (Helen Waddell) |
| 1987 | George Mackay Brown, The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories | 1987 | Ruth Dudley Edwards, Victor Gollancz: A Biography (Victor Gollancz) |
| 1988 | Piers Paul Read, A Season in the West | 1988 | Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921) (Ludwig Wittgenstein) |
| 1989 | James Kelman, A Disaffection | 1989 | Ian Gibson, Federico García Lorca: A Life (Federico García Lorca) |
| 1990 | William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach | 1990 | Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (Ellen Ternan and Charles Dickens) |
| 1991 | Iain Sinclair, Downriver | 1991 | Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin (Charles Darwin) |
| 1992 | Rose Tremain, Sacred Country | 1992 | Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (Christopher Marlowe) |
| 1993 | Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River | 1993 | Richard Holmes, Dr Johnson and Mr Savage (Samuel Johnson) |
| 1994 | Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star | 1994 | Doris Lessing, Under My Skin |
| 1995 | Christopher Priest, The Prestige | 1995 | Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (Albert Speer) |
| 1996 | Graham Swift, Last Orders, and Alice Thompson, Justine | 1996 | Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life (Thomas Cranmer) |
| 1997 | Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain | 1997 | R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914 (W. B. Yeats) |
| 1998 | Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie | 1998 | Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (Thomas More) |
| 1999 | Timothy Mo, Renegade, or Halo2 | 1999 | Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: The Last Victorian (George Eliot) |
| 2000 | Zadie Smith, White Teeth | 2000 | Martin Amis, Experience |
| 2001 | Sid Smith, Something Like a House | 2001 | Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 - Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 (John Maynard Keynes) |
| 2002 | Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections | 2002 | Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 (Lunar Society of Birmingham) |
| 2003 | Andrew O'Hagan, Personality | 2003 | Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place (Charles Darwin) |
| 2004 | David Peace, GB84 | 2004 | Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography (John Clare) |
| 2005 | Ian McEwan, Saturday | 2005 | Sue Prideaux, Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream (Edvard Munch) |
| 2006 | Cormac McCarthy, The Road | 2006 | Byron Rogers, The Man Who Went Into the West: The Life of R. S. Thomas (R. S. Thomas) |
| 2007 | Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt | 2007 | Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (Augustus Pugin) |
| 2008 | Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture | 2008 | Michael Holroyd, A Strange Eventful History (The families of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving) |
| 2009 | A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book | 2009 | John Carey, William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies (William Golding) |
| 2010 | Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters | 2010 | Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China (Pearl Buck) |
| 2011 | Padgett Powell, You and I | 2011 | Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination (Edward Burne-Jones) |
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