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Non-Fiction Book Awards
The Non-Fiction Awards outlined below encompass a wide-range of styles and subjects - from popular science books, autobiographies and historical portraits to outstanding sportsmen and mountaineers.
Pulitzer Prizes: Non-fiction, Biography and History
"The Years Of Extermination" by Saul Friedlander
won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction. "What Hath God Wrought", an exploration by Daniel
Walker Howe of American social changes in the early 1800's won the Pulitzer History Prize. The Biography
Prize was won by the story of Louisa May Alcott - author of
Little Women - "Eden's
Outcasts".
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British Book Awards - Biography and Non-fiction Awards
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand won the Biography of the Year, 2008 at the British Book
Awards. The Non-fiction Award went to Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman for, Long Way Down - a description of their 15000 mile
journey from John O'Groats, Scotland to the southernmost point in South Africa.
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British Sports Book Awards - 2008
"My Manchester United Years" by Sir Bobby Charlton won the Autobiography Category at British
Sports Book Awards, 2008. There were also awards for Andy Ripley (Best Rugby Book category) and John Major (Best Cricket Book).
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Boardman Tasker Prize Winner - 2007
The Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain-related literature celebrates the lives of two of the UK's most
high-profile mountaineers Chris Boardman and Joe Tasker. This year's winner was "The
Wild Places" by Robert Macfarlane.
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2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction
"The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" by Kate Summerscale won the BBC FOUR
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction. With an extensive longlist of 20 books, the Samuel Johnson Prize is a great source for
books about the arts, autobiographies & biographies, current affairs, history, politics, science and travel.
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Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
"Six degrees - Our future on a hotter planet" by Mark Lynas won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. The
Junior Science Prize was won by Leonie Pratt and Rebecca Gilpin with "Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do"
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William Hill Sports Book Award
The William Hill Sports Book Award 2007 was won by "Provided You Dont Kiss Me" a biography of the Nottingham Forest manager, Brian Clough.
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Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2008
"God's Architect" by Rosmary Hill and concerning the
Pugin, the gothic revival designer of many of Britain's town and city buildings, won the 2007 Elizabeth Longford Prize
for Historical Biography - an award presented by the Society of Authors.
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Costa Biography Award
"Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore won the Costa Biography Award 2007
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Edgar Allen Poe Awards
"Reclaiming History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by V Bugliosi won the Best Fact Crime Writing Category in the Edgar Allen Poe
Awards sponsored bt the Crime Writers Association of America.
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The 2008 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
"Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape" by Raja Shehadeh won
the 2008 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
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