ShelfEvidentJames Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography — Complete Winners List
106 years of winners · University of Edinburgh · Since 1919 · ← Back to award page
| 2024 | Lamia Ziadé | — | |
| 2023 | Iman Mersal | Transit Books / And Other Stories | |
| 2020 | Doireann Ní Ghríofa | Tramp Press | |
| 2019 | George Szirtes | — | |
| 2018 | Lindsey Hilsum | Chatto & Windus | |
| 2017 | Craig Brown | 4th Estate | |
| 2016 | Laura Cumming | — | |
| 2015 | James Shapiro | — | |
| 2014 | Richard Benson | — | |
| 2013 | Hermione Lee | Chatto & Windus | |
| 2012 | Tanya Harrod | — | |
| 2011 | Fiona MacCarthy | — | |
| 2010 | Hilary Spurling | — | |
| 2009 | John Carey | — | |
| 2008 | Michael Holroyd | — | |
| 2007 | Rosemary Hill | — | |
| 2006 | Byron Rogers | — | |
| 2005 | Sue Prideaux | — | |
| 2004 | Jonathan Bate | — | |
| 2003 | Janet Browne | — | |
| 2002 | Jenny Uglow | — | |
| 2001 | Robert Skidelsky | — | |
| 2000 | Martin Amis | — | |
| 1999 | Kathryn Hughes | — | |
| 1998 | Peter Ackroyd | — | |
| 1997 | R. F. Foster | — | |
| 1996 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | — | |
| 1995 | Gitta Sereny | — | |
| 1994 | Doris Lessing | — | |
| 1993 | Richard Holmes | — | |
| 1992 | Charles Nicholl | — | |
| 1991 | Adrian Desmond and James Moore | — | |
| 1990 | Claire Tomalin | — | |
| 1989 | Ian Gibson | — | |
| 1988 | Brian McGuinness | — | |
| 1987 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | — | |
| 1986 | Dame Felicitas Corrigan | — | |
| 1985 | David Nokes | — | |
| 1984 | Lyndall Gordon | — | |
| 1983 | Alan Walker | — | |
| 1982 | Richard Ellmann | — | |
| 1981 | Victoria Glendinning | — | |
| 1980 | Robert B. Martin | — | |
| 1979 | Brian Finney | — | |
| 1978 | Robert Gittings | — | |
| 1977 | George Painter | — | |
| 1976 | Ronald Hingley | — | |
| 1975 | Karl Miller | — | |
| 1974 | John Wain | — | |
| 1973 | Robin Lane Fox | — | |
| 1972 | Quentin Bell | — | |
| 1971 | Julia Namier | — | |
| 1970 | Jasper Ridley | — | |
| 1969 | Antonia Fraser | — | |
| 1968 | Gordon Haight | — | |
| 1967 | Winifred Gérin | — | |
| 1966 | Geoffrey Keynes | — | |
| 1965 | Mary Caroline Moorman | — | |
| 1964 | Elizabeth Longford | — | |
| 1963 | Georgina Battiscombe | — | |
| 1962 | Meriol Trevor | — | |
| 1961 | M. K. Ashby | — | |
| 1960 | Canon Adam Fox | — | |
| 1959 | Christopher Hassall | — | |
| 1958 | Joyce Hemlow | — | |
| 1957 | Maurice Cranston | — | |
| 1956 | St John Greer Ervine | — | |
| 1955 | R. W. Ketton-Cremer | — | |
| 1954 | Keith Feiling | — | |
| 1953 | Carola Oman | — | |
| 1952 | G. M. Young | — | |
| 1951 | Noel Annan | — | |
| 1950 | Cecil Woodham-Smith | — | |
| 1949 | John Connell | — | |
| 1948 | Percy A. Scholes | — | |
| 1947 | Charles E. Raven | — | |
| 1946 | Richard Aldington | — | |
| 1945 | D. S. MacColl | — | |
| 1944 | C. V. Wedgwood | — | |
| 1943 | G. G. Coulton | — | |
| 1942 | Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede | — | |
| 1941 | John Gore | — | |
| 1940 | Hilda F. M. Prescott | — | |
| 1939 | David C. Douglas | — | |
| 1938 | Sir Edmund Chambers | — | |
| 1937 | Lord Eustace Percy | — | |
| 1936 | Edward Sackville West | — | |
| 1935 | Raymond Wilson Chambers | — | |
| 1934 | J. E. Neale | — | |
| 1933 | Violet Clifton | — | |
| 1932 | Stephen Gwynn | — | |
| 1931 | J. Y. T. Greig | — | |
| 1930 | Francis Yeats-Brown | — | |
| 1929 | Lord David Cecil | — | |
| 1928 | John Buchan | — | |
| 1927 | H. A. L. Fisher | — | |
| 1926 | Reverend Dr H. B. Workman | — | |
| 1925 | Geoffrey Scott | — | |
| 1924 | William Wilson | — | |
| 1923 | Ronald Ross | — | |
| 1922 | Percy Lubbock | — | |
| 1921 | Lytton Strachey | — | |
| 1920 | G. M. Trevelyan | — | |
| 1919 | Henry Festing Jones | — |
