Biography
Winner:
- D. J. Taylor, Orwell: The Life
Shortlist:
- John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher - Volume Two: The Iron Lady
- Caroline Moorehead, Martha Gellhorn
- Andrew Wilson, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Read more about this topic: 2003 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
—Richard Holmes (b. 1945)
“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)
“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)