The Samuel Johnson Prize: We Have a Winner!

I think you know by now that Literary Masters book groups and literary salons focus mainly on fiction, but each season we 'dig deep' into a non-fiction treasure.  My favorite so far, and I think my LM members would agree, is Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the UK's premier award for non-fiction work, in 2010.

The 2013 winner of this prestigious award has just been announced, so let's congratulate Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of The Pike.  Her account of "a celebrated poet and Italian nationalist who was simultaneously repugnant and alluring" is evidently a form-breaking type of biography that escapes the restrictions of the genre.  Sounds intriguing.  The book won over an impressive shortlist of titles:

 

For more information on the Samuel Johnson Prize, including past winners, click here.

What good non-fiction have you read recently?

Samuel Johnson Award Announced!

Congratulations to Wade Davis for winning the UK's prestigious prize for non-fiction--the Samuel Johnson award.  His book Into the Silence chronicles and analyzes Mallory's attempts to scale Everest.  Click here to read what the Guardian has to say about it--so interesting!