James Tait Black Memorial Prize Winners

James Tait Black Memorial Prizes established in 1919 are (along with Hawthornden Prize) Britain's oldest literary awards.

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Winners

	A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa 4.09 avg rating — 6,360 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LOTE by Shola von Reinhold (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 953 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter by George Szirtes 3.96 avg rating — 116 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann 3.97 avg rating — 4,668 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dance Nation by Clare Barron 4.27 avg rating — 556 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 3,852 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crudo by Olivia Laing (Goodreads Author) 3.22 avg rating — 7,537 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams 3.77 avg rating — 1,266 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown 3.34 avg rating — 7,190 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming 3.80 avg rating — 1,568 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride 3.85 avg rating — 4,206 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro 4.06 avg rating — 2,088 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits 2.99 avg rating — 675 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard Benson 4.31 avg rating — 126 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman 3.65 avg rating — 4,370 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cannibals by Rory Mullarkey 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee 4.03 avg rating — 454 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harvest by Jim Crace 3.60 avg rating — 8,653 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price 3.49 avg rating — 63 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture by Tanya Harrod 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner 3.94 avg rating — 188 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You & Me by Padgett Powell 3.39 avg rating — 504 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy 4.25 avg rating — 319 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 12,568 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth by Hilary Spurling 3.81 avg rating — 1,111 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey 4.19 avg rating — 100 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt 3.66 avg rating — 17,704 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd 3.67 avg rating — 108 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry 3.81 avg rating — 19,937 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill 4.14 avg rating — 92 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars