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Monday, September 1, 2014

Samuel Johnson prize 2014 longlist spotlights memoirs

The award, which has never before been won by an author in this genre, has selected six for this year's prestigious non-fiction award

From artist Marion Coutts's searingly honest account of her husband's death from a brain tumour to Helen Macdonald's story of how she tamed a goshawk after her father died, memoirs dominate the longlist for the Samuel Johnson prize this year, in a line-up which the acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin said shows "that non-fiction is certainly stranger and wilder than fiction".


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