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{{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 The Marsh Biography Award was a British literary award, given to the author of the best biography written in the previous two years by a British author. It was established in 1987 and was presented biennially until 2011. The Marsh Christian Trust and the English Speaking Union presented this award in partnership.


Winners

* 1987 -
Roland Huntford Roland Huntford ( Horwitch;Race To The Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest, Ranulph Fiennes, Hyperion, 2004, p. 387 born 1927) is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. Background and education Huntford, the ...
- ''Shackleton'' * 1989 -
David Gilmour David Jon Gilmour ( ; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of the founder member Syd Barrett. By the early 1980s, Pink F ...
- '' The Last Leopard'' * 1991 - Hugh & Mirabel Cecil - ''Clever Hearts'' * 1993 - Patrick Marnham - '' The Man Who Wasn't Maigret'' * 1995 - Selina Hastings - ''Evelyn Waugh'' * 1997 - Jim Ring - ''Erskine Childers'' * 1999 - Richard Holmes - ''Coleridge: Darker Reflections'' * 2001 -
Anthony Sampson Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (3 August 1926 – 18 December 2004) was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was '' Anatomy of Britain'', which was published in 1962 and was followed by five more "Anatomies", up ...
- '' Mandela: The Authorised Biography'' * 2003 - Brenda Maddox - '' Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA'' * 2005 - John Guy - ''My Heart is My Own'' * 2007 - Maggie Ferguson - ''George Mackay Brown: The Life'' * 2009 - Rosemary Hill - ''God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain'' * 2011 - D.R. Thorpe - ''Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan''


References

British literary awards Biography awards Awards established in 1987 1987 establishments in the United Kingdom