The Tony Lothian Prize is an annual literary prize presented by the London-based Biographers' Club to the best book proposal from a first-time biographer. Prize winners received £2,000.
In 2023, the Biographers' Club announced that the prize would be renamed the following year as the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize to honor Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch, who had died that year. The award had previously been named after her mother, Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian.
Recipients
+Prize winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2010White Lies, Black Magic: Prince MonoluluWinner2011Winner2012Marguerite, Byron and the Literary FactoryWinnerShortlist2013Amalia Beer: A Prussian-Jewish LifeWinner2014Thank You So Much for WritingWinner2015Square HauntingWinner2016Noble Savages WinnerThirstShortlistShortlist2017Queen Victoria's Freaks: The Performers at Buckingham PalaceWinnerShortlistEnter a Cloud: A Book on/with/for/after W.S. GrahamShortlistWillibald’s Journey ShortlistEvery Other Inch a Gentleman: The Lives of Michael Arlen Shortlist2018 Harriet BakerRural Hours: Interwar Female Writers, Landscape and LivingWinnerGaijin: Modern Japan Through Western EyesShortlistWho Killed Arnold Bennett? The Wife, the Mistress and Virginia WoolfShortlistParallel Lives: The Literary Friendship of Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth GaskellShortlistBehold the Dark Gray Man: The Life and Times of Sholto, Lord Douglas of KirtlesideShortlist2019WinnerShortlistIsabel Rawsthorne: An Artist in Paris and SohoShortlistEmpire’s Loving Strangers: Journeys Through an Asian-Jewish Camphorwood ChestShortlistShortlistShortlist2020But Will it Get a Laugh? The Life of Doris Hare in Three ActsWinnerFailures: Six Ways to be ForgottenShortlistShortlistGood Guy or Bad Guy: The Enigmas of Reggie SmithShortlistAmabel Williams-Ellis and The Art of Being a WomanShortlistShortlist2021Alexander Macmillan, Advocate for the Ignorant:The Life and Times of a Victorian PublisherWinnerCourt Green: Sylvia Plath in Devon 1961-2ShortlistPoets, Painters and Players: The Private Life of Edward MarshShortlistPassion and Power: The Life and Loves of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of MarlboroughShortlistAll Things to All Men: The Fate of Rupert BrookeShortlistCenturion of the Inner Circle: The Secret Service of Ronnie SinclairShortlist2022WinnerPadraic Fiacc: Poet of the Pagan CityShortlistShortlist2023Juba--From Roman Slave to African KingWinnerShortlistBitter Strength: The Life and Work of Marilyn French, FeministShortlistAda Chesterton: Fleet Street Bohemian and AdventurerShortlistUpriver, after Fred: A Thames JourneyShortlistRenata Adler: At the Radical MiddleShortlist
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