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Biographers' Club @BiographersClub

Committed to supporting, promoting & connecting biographers. Runs Slightly Foxed Best First Biography, Tony Lothian & Lifetime Services to Biography Prizes.

Joined March 2016
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At the @FoxedQuarterly Best First Biography Prize party @MaggsBros: shortlisted authors (from left) Ian Collins, Eileen Atkins, Lea Ypi, Alex Christofi, Annabel Abbs.
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Congratulations to @lea_ypi, winner of the £2,500 @FoxedQuarterly Best First Biography Prize. A memoir of Albania that "is both funny and deeply serious", said judge Johnny de Falbe.
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Thrilled to announce that @lea_ypi has won the #SlightlyFoxed Best First Biography Prize for Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. A joy to toast the brilliant winner & glorious shortlist this evening @MaggsBros! @BiographersClub #FoxedPrize @AllenLaneBooks @PenguinUKBooks
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The Shortlist for the 2021 Tony Lothian Prize has been Announced! thebiographersclub.com/the-s…
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15 May 2021
Out now! #FoxedPod Ep. 31: The Magic of Angela Carter | Imagination, influence & the invention of infernal desire machines. Angela Carter’s biographer, Edmund Gordon, guides us through her colourful works & the wider realms of magical realism foxedquarterly.com/magic-of-… @vintagebooks
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Do not miss our latest event STRANGER THAN FICTION: Robert Maxwell and Jeremy Thorpe. John Preston author of 'A Very English Scandal', 'Fall' & 'The Dig'will be in conversation with Rupert Christiansen at 6.30 pm on Tuesday 11th May (see website for details) @thebiographersclub
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31 Mar 2021
The Biographers’ Club will be talking to historian & journalist Simon Heffer about Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries – the most entertaining & revelatory political diaries of the 20th century – on Tuesday 6 April thebiographersclub.com/cours… Contact @NicholasClee @BiographersClub
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We are excited to announce that the judges for The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize of 2021 are @susannahclapp @HoratioClare & JohndeFalbe. If you would like to enter this year all the information can be found @FoxedQuarterly and thebiographersclub.com
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On the 6th April we are delighted to welcome the historian and journalist Simon Heffer for a Zoom discussion about the most entertaining and revelatory political diaries of the 20th century, ‘Chips’ Channon #thebiographersclub. To join us go to thebiographersclub.com/event…
Heather Clark wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for Red Comet | The prize of £2,500 has been awarded to @Plathbiography & we raise a glass to Heather & the shortlist. Congratulations to all! @BiographersClub #FoxedPrize foxedquarterly.com/heather-c…… @JonathanCape
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Tomorrow night we will be announcing the winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2020! The shortlist includes: @Plathbiography, @HadleyFreeman, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Shelley Klein & Jonathan Lichtenstein #FoxedPrize @FoxedQuarterly
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Have you read any of the biographies on the #SlightlyFoxed Best First Biography Prize 2020 shortlist? Who would be your winner? View the shortlist here: foxedquarterly.com/the-sligh… @FoxedQuarterly #FoxedPrize
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Member Henrietta Heald releases new book 'Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines'. Described as 'A sensational book' by @jesswade it is out on the 4t March #thebiographersclub thebiographersclub.com/henri…
Do not miss tomorrows event featuring our 2020 winner of the Biographers’ Club Exceptional Contribution to Biography award Ann Wroe, Tuesday 26 January, at 6 30pm with Dan Franklin. To join please go to our events page thebiographersclub.com/event….
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Heather Clark, Red Comet | In this meticulous, compassionate life, @Plathbiography offers illuminating readings of Sylvia Plath’s poems, & brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman & visionary artist | @FoxedQuarterly Prize 2020 Shortlist @JonathanCape
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Jonathan Lichtenstein, The Berlin Shadow | In this formally audacious and deeply moving memoir, Lichtenstein retraces his father Hans’s journey from Berlin as a child refugee | @FoxedQuarterly 2020 Shortlist @ScribnerUK @simonschusterUK foxedquarterly.com/shop/jona…
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Shelley Klein, The See-Through House | Klein’s memoir of her father Bernat, a celebrated textile designer, and of the glass house that he built, is funny, nuanced and disarmingly honest | @FoxedQuarterly 2020 Shortlist @ChattoBooks @LandRAgency foxedquarterly.com/shop/shel…
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Sudhir Hazareesingh, Black Spartacus | A gripping biography of Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the slave revolt that led to Haiti’s independence | @FoxedQuarterly Prize 2020 Shortlist @AllenLaneBooks @PenguinUkBooks foxedquarterly.com/shop/sudh…
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Hadley Freeman, House of Glass | @HadleyFreeman beautifully writes about the extraordinary lives of her grandmother Sala & her siblings, from their shtetl in Poland to Paris & Long Island | @FoxedQuarterly Prize 2020 Shortlist @4thEstateBooks foxedquarterly.com/shop/hadl…
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18 Jan 2021
Jonathan Lichtenstein, The Berlin Shadow | In this formally audacious and deeply moving memoir, Lichtenstein retraces his father Hans’s journey from Berlin as a child refugee | #FoxedPrize 2020 Shortlist foxedquarterly.com/shop/jona… @ScribnerUK @simonschusterUK
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