Biography
Winner:
- Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Shortlist:
- Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives
- Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
- Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Real Mrs Miniver
Read more about this topic: 2002 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)