The Costa Book Award for Biography, formerly part of the Whitbread Book Awards (1971-2006), was an annual literary award for children's books, part of the Costa Book Awards. The award concluded in 2022.[1][2]
Recipients
Costa Books of the Year are distinguished wit a blue ribbon ().
Year | Author | Title | Subject | Result | Ref. |
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1971 | Michael Meyer | Henrik Ibsen | Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright and theatre director | Winner | |
1972 | James Pope-Hennessy | Anthony Trollope | Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English novelist of the Victorian period | Winner | |
1973 | John Wilson | CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman(1836–1908), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 | Winner | |
1974 | Andrew Boyle | Poor, Dear Brendan: The Quest for Brendan Bracken | Brendan Bracken (1901–1958), Irish-born businessman and British politician | Winner | |
1975 | Helen Corke | In Our Infancy | Helen Corke (1882–1978), English writer and schoolteacher | Winner | |
1976 | Winifred Gerin | Elizabeth Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), English writer | Winner | |
1977 | Nigel Nicolson | Mary Curzon | Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston(1870–1906), British noble, Vicereine of India | Winner | |
1978 | John Grigg | Lloyd George: The People's Champion | Lloyd George (1863–1945), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 | Winner | |
1979 | Penelope Mortimer | About Time | Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), Welsh-born English writer | Winner | |
1980 | David Newsome | On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist | A. C. Benson (1862–1925), English essayist and poet | Winner | |
1981 | Nigel Hamilton | Monty: The Making of a General | Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (1887–1976), the first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Winner | |
1982 | Edward Crankshaw | Bismarck | Otto von Bismarck (1871–1890), also known as the Iron Chancellor, the first Chancellor of Germany | Winner | |
1983 | Victoria Glendinning | Vita | The Honorable Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (1892–1962), English author and garden designer (1892–1962) | Winner | |
Kenneth Rose | King George V | King George V (1865–1936), King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India 1910–1936 | Winner | ||
1984 | Peter Ackroyd | T. S. Eliot | T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), US-born British poet | Winner | |
1985 | Ben Pimlott | Hugh Dalton | Hugh Dalton (1887–1962), British Labour politician | Winner | |
1986 | Richard Mabey | Gilbert White | Gilbert White (1720–1793), English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist; author of Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne | Winner | |
1987 | Christopher Nolan | Under the Eye of the Clock | Christopher Nolan (1965-2009), Irish poet and author | Winner | |
1988 | A. N. Wilson | Tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian writer, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina | Winner | |
1989 | Richard Holmes | Coleridge: Early Visions | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian | Winner | |
1990 | Ann Thwaite | AA Milne–His Life | A. A. Milne (1882–1956), British author | Winner | |
1991 | John Richardson | A Life of Picasso | Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), 20th-century Spanish painter and sculptor | Winner | |
1992 | Victoria Glendinning | Trollope | Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English novelist of the Victorian period | Winner | |
1993 | Andrew Motion | Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life | Philip Larkin (1922–1985), English writer, jazz critic and librarian | Winner | |
1994 | Brenda Maddox | D H Lawrence: The Married Man | D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English writer and poet | Winner | |
1995 | Roy Jenkins | Gladstone | William Gladstone (1809–1898), British Liberal prime minister | Winner | |
Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge | Vera Brittain–A Life | Vera Brittain (1893–1970), English nurse and writer | |||
Gitta Sereny | Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth | Albert Speer (1905–1981), Architect and Minister of War Production in Nazi Germany | |||
Geoffrey Wansell | Terence Rattigan | Terence Rattigan (1911–1977), British playwright and screenwriter | |||
1996 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Thomas Cranmer: A Life | Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), 16th-century English Archbishop of Canterbury and Protestant reformer | Winner | |
Rosemary Ashton | George Eliot: A Life | George Eliot (1819–1880), English novelist, essayist, poet, journalist, and translator | Shortlist | ||
Flora Fraser | The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline | Caroline of Brunswick, (1768–1821), Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover as the wife of King George IV | |||
James Knowlson | Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett | Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Nobel-winning modernist Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, translator and poet | |||
1997 | Graham Robb | Victor Hugo | Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French novelist, poet, and dramatist | Winner | |
Jessica Douglas-Home | Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse | Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872–1948), British harpsichordist and clavichordist | Shortlist | ||
Kate Summerscale | Queen of Whale Cay | Marion "Joe" Carstairs (1900–1993), Wealthy British power boat racer known for their speed, eccentric lifestyle, and gender nonconformity | |||
Stella Tillyard | Citizen Lord | Lord Edward FitzGerald (1763–1798), Irish revolutionary | |||
Jenny Uglow | Hogarth, A Life and a World | William Hogarth (1697–1764), English artist and social critic | |||
1998 | Amanda Foreman | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), English socialite, political organiser, style icon, author, and activist | Winner | |
John Bayley | Iris, A memoir of Iris Murdoch | Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Irish-born British writer and philosopher | Shortlist | ||
Ian Kershaw | Hitler, Volume One Hubris 1889–1936 | Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany (1889–1945) | |||
1999 | David Cairns | Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness | Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), French music composer and conductor | Winner | |
Nicholas Shakespeare | Bruce Chatwin | Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), English writer, novelist and journalist | Shortlist | ||
Hilary Spurling | Matisse | Henri Matisse (1869–1954), 20th-century French artist | |||
2000 | Lorna Sage | Bad Blood–A Memoir | Lorna Sage (1943–2001), English academic, literary critic and author | Winner | |
Claire Harman | Fanny Burney | Fanny Burney (1752–1840), English diarist, novelist and playwright; the first literary woman novelist | Shortlist | ||
Tim Hilton | John Ruskin: The Later Years | John Ruskin (1819–1900), English writer and art critic | |||
Ian Kershaw | Hitler: 1936–45 Nemesis | Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany (1889–1945) | |||
2001 | Diana Souhami | Selkirk's Island | Alexander Selkirk (1676–1721), Scottish sailor and castaway | Winner | |
Anthony Bailey | Vermeer: A View of Delft | Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Dutch painter | Shortlist | ||
Adam Sisman | Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson | James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740–1795), author of The Life of Samuel Johnson, which is discussed in Sisman's biography | |||
Geoffrey Wall | Flaubert: A Life | Gustave Flaubert 1821–1880), French novelist | |||
2002 | Claire Tomalin | Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English diarist | Winner | |
Miranda Carter | Anthony Blunt: His Lives | Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), British art historian, Soviet spy | Shortlist | ||
Brenda Maddox | Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA | Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British chemist, biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer | |||
Ysenda Maxtone Graham | The Real Mrs Miniver | Jan Struther (1901–1953), author of the book-turned-film Mrs. Miniver | |||
2003 | DJ Taylor | Orwell: The Life | George Orwell (1903–1950), English author and journalist | Winner | |
John Campbell | Margaret Thatcher - Volume Two: The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 | Shortlist | ||
Caroline Moorehead | Martha Gellhorn | Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998), American journalist | |||
Andrew Wilson | Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | Patricia Highsmith(1921–1995), American novelist and short story writer | |||
2004 | John Guy | My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 | Winner | |
David McKie | Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue | Jabez Spencer Balfour (1843–1916), businessman, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer | Shortlist | ||
John Sutherland | Stephen Spender | Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet and man of letters | |||
Jeremy Treglown | V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life | V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997), British writer and literary critic | |||
2005 | Hilary Spurling | Matisse the Master | Henri Matisse (1869–1954), 20th-century French artist | Winner | |
Nigel Farndale | Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce | William and Margaret Joyce (1900s), American-born fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster | Shortlist | ||
Richard Mabey | Nature Cure | Richard Mabey (born 1941), British writer and broadcaster | |||
Alexander Masters | Stuart: A Life Backwards | Stuart Clive Shorter, prisoner and a career criminal | |||
2006 | Brian Thompson | Keeping Mum | Brian Thompson | Winner | |
Maggie Fergusson | George Mackay Brown: The Life | George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scottish poet 1921–1996 | Shortlist | ||
John Stubbs | John Donne: The Reformed Soul | John Donne (1572–1631), English poet and cleric | |||
Jo Tatchell | Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq | Nabeel Yasin(born 1950), Iraqi poet, journalist and political activist | |||
2007 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Young Stalin | Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953 | Winner | |
Julie Kavanagh | Rudolf Nureyev | Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer | Shortlist | ||
Ben Macintyre | Agent Zigzag | Eddie Chapman (1914–1997), Double agent for Britain during World War 2 | |||
Michael Simkins | Fatty Batter | Michael Simkins | |||
2008 | Diana Athill | Somewhere Towards the End | Diana Athill (1917–2019), British literary editor, novelist and memoirist | Winner | [3] |
Judith Mackrell | Bloomsbury Ballerina | Lydia Lopokova (1892–1981), Russian ballet dancer | Shortlist | ||
Sathnam Sanghera | If You Don't Know Me By Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton | Sathnam Sanghera (born 1976), British journalist and author | |||
Jackie Wullschlager | Chagall | Marc Chagall (1887–1985), Russian-French artist | |||
2009 | Graham Farmelo | The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius | Paul Dirac (1902–1984), English theoretical physicist | Winner | [4] |
William Fiennes | The Music Room | William Fiennes (born 1970), English author | Shortlist | ||
Simon Gray | Coda | Simon Gray (1936–2008), English playwright and memoirist | |||
Caroline Moorehead | Dancing to the Precipice | Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet (1770–1853), French aristocrat famous for her posthumously published memoirs, Journal d'une femme de 50 ans | |||
2010 | Edmund de Waal | The Hare with Amber Eyes | Ephrussis family, 20th-century Ukrainian Jewish banking and oil dynasty | Winner | [5][6] |
Sarah Bakewell | How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer | Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance | Shortlist | ||
Michael Frayn | My Father's Fortune | Michael Frayn (born 1933), English playwright and novelist | |||
2011 | Matthew Hollis | Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas | Edward Thomas (1878–1917), a seminal poet in the history of British literature known for his work exploring the notions of disconnection and unsettledness | Winner | [7][8] |
Julia Blackburn | Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village | Julia Blackburn (born 1948), British author of both fiction and non-fiction | Shortlist | [9] | |
Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn | Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story | ||||
Claire Tomalin | Charles Dickens: A Life | Charles Dickens (1812–1870), English writer and social critic | |||
2012 | Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot | Dotter of Her Father's Eyes | Winner | [10][11] | |
Artemis Cooper | Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure | Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), British author and soldier | |||
Selina Guinness | The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family | Selina Guinness | |||
Kate Hubbard | Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household | ||||
2013 | Lucy Hughes-Hallett | The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War | Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian writer | Winner | [12][13] |
Gavin Francis | Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins | Gavin Francis (born 1975) Scottish physician and a writer on travel and medical matters | Shortlist | [14][15] | |
Thomas Harding | Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz | Hanns Alexander (1917-2006), German Jewish refugee who tracked down and arrested the Kommandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss | |||
Olivia Laing | The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink | ||||
2014 | Helen Macdonald | H is for Hawk | Winner | [16][17] | |
John Campbell | Roy Jenkins: a Well-Rounded Life | Roy Jenkins (1920–2003), British politician, historian and writer | Shortlist | [18][19] | |
Marion Coutts | The Iceberg: a Memoir | Tom Lubbock, the chief art critic for The Independent | |||
Henry Marsh | Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery | ||||
2015 | Andrea Wulf | The Invention of Nature | Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer | Winner | [20] |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland | Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), British writer, Anglican deacon and photographer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Shortlist | [21] | |
Thomas Harding | The House by the Lake | ||||
Ruth Scurr | John Aubrey: My Own Life | John Aubrey (1626–1697), English writer and antiquarian | |||
2016 | Keggie Carew | Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory | Winner | ||
John Guy | Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years | Shortlist | [22] | ||
Hisham Matar | The Return | ||||
Sylvia Patterson | I’m Not With the Band | ||||
2017 | Rebecca Stott | In the Days of Rain | Rebecca Stott (born 1964), British writer and broadcaster | Winner | [23] |
Xiaolu Guo | Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up | Shortlist | [24][25] | ||
Caroline Moorehead | A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini | ||||
Stephen Westaby | Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table | ||||
2018 | Bart van Es | The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found | Winner | [26][27] | |
2019 | Jack Fairweather | The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz | Witold Pilecki (1901–1948), Polish underground resistance soldier and World War II concentration camp resistance leader | Winner | [28][29] |
Laura Cumming | On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons | Shortlist | [30] | ||
Adam Nicolson | The Making of Poetry | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834), and William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet (1770–1850) | |||
Lindsey Hilsum | In Extremis | Marie Colvin, American journalist who worked as a foreign affairs correspondent | |||
2020 | Lee Lawrence | The Louder I Will Sing | Winner | [31] | |
2021 | John Preston | Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell | Winner | [32][33] | |
Arifa Akbar | Consumed: A Sister’s Story | Shortlist | [34] | ||
Ed Caesar | The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest | ||||
Lea Ypi | Free: Coming of Age at the End of History |
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