2000 - Longlist
20 AUTHORS IN RUNNING FOR £30,000 PRIZE
The judges for the UK’s most valuable prize for non-fiction
today announce the longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize
2000. The prize is worth £30,000 to the winner and £2,500
to each of the shortlisted authors.
Audiences for non-fiction writing are at an all-time high;
the range and quality of books being written and published
has never been so diverse and exciting – as reflected
in this year’s longlist.
The Samuel Johnson Prize, now in its second year, aims to
reward the best of non-fiction, from biography to travel
writing, from popular science to the arts and current affairs. The
first ever prize was awarded last year to Antony Beevor for
his book, Stalingrad which then went on to become a number
one bestseller. One of the most celebrated books of
1999, it has to date sold over 320,000 copies in the UK and
Commonwealth alone.
The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is sponsored by
a retired British businessman and philanthropist, who wishes
to remain anonymous.
The judges of the prize reflect an impressive array of literary,
journalistic and academic talents. Nigella Lawson (Chair)
writer and broadcaster; writer and actor Stephen Fry; historian
Timothy Garton Ash; scientist Susan Greenfield; and QC Baroness
Helena Kennedy.
The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction will be announced
at an Awards Dinner at Banqueting House in London on Tuesday,
23 May. The shortlist of up to six titles will be announced
at Dr Johnson’s House in Gough Square on Tuesday, 2
May.
THE LONGLIST:
| Author |
Title |
Publisher |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Weaving the Web |
Orion Business Books |
| Piers Brendon |
The DarkValley |
Cape |
| David Cairns |
Berlioz |
Allen Lane |
| Tulipmania |
Mike Dash |
Victor Gollancz |
| Norman Davies |
The Isles |
Macmillan |
| Alain de Botton |
The Consolations of Philosophy |
Hamish Hamilton |
| Tony Hawks |
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis |
Ebury |
| Tim Hilton |
John Ruskin: The Later Years |
Yale |
| Lisa Jardine |
Ingenious Pursuits |
Little, Brown |
| Steve Jones |
Almost Like a Whale |
Doubleday |
| Brenda Maddox |
George’s Ghosts |
Picador |
| John Major |
John Major: The Autobiography |
HarperCollins |
| Matt Ridley |
Genome |
4th Estate |
| Andrew Roberts |
Salisbury |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Anthony Sampson |
Mandela |
HarperCollins |
| Simon Schama |
Rembrandt’s Eyes |
Allen Lane |
| William Shawcross |
Deliver Us From Evil |
Bloomsbury |
| David Sinclair |
The Pound |
Century |
| Colin Thubron |
In Siberia |
Chatto & Windus |
| Francis Wheen |
Karl Marx |
4th Estate |
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