2002 - Longlist
21 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 BBC Four Samuel Johnson
Prize 2002. The prize is worth £30,000 to the winner
and £1,000 to each of the shortlisted authors.
This year’s longlist reflects a year of high quality
non-fiction publishing with a diverse and exciting range
of titles.
The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize 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 to Antony Beevor for his book, Stalingrad
which then went on to become a number one bestseller. Last
year’s winner was Michael Burleigh for his groundbreaking
book, The Third Reich: A New History.
The judges of the prize reflect an impressive array of talents. David
Dimbleby (Chair); scientist Richard Fortey; literary editor
of the Sunday Times, Caroline Gascoigne; writer and broadcaster
Bonnie Greer; and best selling novelist and journalist Robert
Harris.
The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction will be
announced at an Awards Dinner in London on Monday 24, June. The
shortlist of up to six titles will be announced in early
June.
THE BBC FOUR SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2002
THE LONGLIST:
| Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Julia Blackburn |
Old Man Goya |
Jonathan Cape |
| Miranda Carter |
Anthony Blunt: His Lives |
Macmillan |
| Vanessa Collingridge |
Captain Cook |
Ebury Press |
| Eamon Duffy |
The Voices of Morebath |
Yale |
| William Fiennes |
The Snow Geese |
Picador |
| Simon CarrFergus Fleming |
Ninety Degrees North |
Granta |
| Alexandra Fuller |
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight |
Picador |
| Richard Hamblyn |
The Invention of Clouds |
Picador |
| Arthur Herman |
The Scottish Enlightenment |
Fourth Estate |
| Richard Holmes |
Redcoat |
HarperCollins |
| Roy Jenkins |
Churchill |
Macmillan |
| Steven Johnson |
Emergence |
Allen Lane/
The Penguin Press |
| Margaret Macmillan |
Peacemakers |
John Murray |
| Philip Mansel |
Paris Between Empires 1814-1852 |
John Murray |
| Jan Morris |
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere |
(Faber & Faber |
| Jonathan Rose |
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes |
Yale |
| Ronald Segal |
Islam’s Black Slaves |
Atlantic Books |
| Carole Seymour-Jones |
Painted Shadow |
Constable |
| Brendan Simms |
Unfinest Hour |
Allen Lane |
| John Sulston & Georgina Ferry |
The Common Thread |
Bantam Press |
| Keith Ward |
God: A Guide for the Perplexed |
Oneworld |
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