2017
Winner
In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott
Shortlist
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
Fragile Lives by Professor Stephen Westaby
2016
Winner
Winner
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew
Shortlist
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar
I'm Not With the Band: A Writer's Life lost in Music by Sylvia Patterson
Shortlist
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar
I'm Not With the Band: A Writer's Life lost in Music by Sylvia Patterson
2015
Winner
Winner
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
Shortlist
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
2014
Winner
Winner
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald *
Shortlist
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell
The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell
The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
2013
Winner
Winner
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Shortlist
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
2012
Winner
Winner
Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot & Bryan Talbot
Shortlist
Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
The Crocodile by the Door: The story of a house, a farm and a family by Selina Guinness
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard
2011
Winner
Winner
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
Shortlist
Thin Paths: Journeys in and around a Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia (A Father and Son’s Story) by Patrick Cockburn & Henry Cockburn
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
2010
Winner
Winner
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Shortlist
How to live: A life of Montaigne in twenty questions and one attempt at an answer by Sarah Bakewell
My Father’s Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn
2009
Winner
Winner
The Strangest Man – The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
Shortlist
The Music Room by William Fiennes
Coda by Simon Gray
Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead
2008
Winner
Winner
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
Shortlist
Bloomsbury Ballerina by Judith Mackrell
If You Don’t Know Me By Now by Sathnam Sanghera
Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager
2007
Winner
Winner
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Shortlist Rudolf Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins
2006
Winner
Winner
Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson
Shortlist
George Mackay Brown – The Life by Maggie Fergusson
Donne: A Reformed Soul by John Stubbs
Nabeel’s Song by Jo Tatchell
Whitbread Biography Award
2005
Winner
Winner
Matisse: The Master by Hilary Spurling *
Shortlist
Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce by Nigel Farndale
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
2004
Winner
Winner
My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
Shortlist
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue by David McKie
Stephen Spender by John Sutherland
V.S.Pritchett: A Life by Jeremy Treglown
2003
Winner
Winner
Orwell: The Life by DJ Taylor
Shortlist
Margaret Thatcher – Volume Two: The Iron Lady by John Campbell
Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
2002
Winner
Winner
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin *
Shortlist
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
The Real Mrs Miniver by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
2001
Winner
Winner
Selkirk’s Island by Diana Souhami
Shortlist
A View of Delft by Anthony Bailey
Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman
Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall
2000
Winner
Winner
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
Shortlist
Fanny Burney by Claire Harman
John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton
Hitler: 1936-45 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
1999
Winner
Winner
Berlioz, Volume 2 by David Cairns
Shortlist
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
Matisse by Hilary Spurling
1998
Winner
Winner
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Shortlist
Iris, A memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
Hitler, Volume One Hubris 1889 – 1936 by Ian Kershaw
1997
Winner
Winner
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes *
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb
Shortlist
Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse by Jessica Douglas-Home
Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
Citizen Lord by Stella Tillyard
Hogarth, A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow
1996
Winner
Winner
Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Shortlist
George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton
The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline by Flora Fraser
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson
1995
Winner
Winner
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
Shortlist
Vera Brittain – A Life by Paul Berry & Mark Bostridge
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
Terence Rattigan by Geoffrey Wansell
1994
Winner
Winner
DH Lawrence: The Married Man y Brenda Maddox
1993
Winner
Winner
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion
1992
Winner
Winner
Trollope by Victoria Glendinning
1991
Winner
Winner
A Life of Picasso by John Richardson *
1990
Winner
Winner
AA Milne: His Life by Ann Thwaite
1989
Winner
Winner
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes *
1988
Winner
Winner
Tolstoy by AN Wilson
1987
Winner
Winner
Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan *
1986
Winner
Winner
Gilbert White by Richard Mabey
1985
Winner
Winner
Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott
1984
Winner
Winner
TS Eliot by Peter Ackroyd
1983
Winners
Winners
Vita by Victoria Glendinning
King George V by Kenneth Rose
1982
Winner
Winner
Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw
1981
Winner
Winner
Monty: The Making of a General by Nigel Hamilton
1980
Winner
Winner
On the Edge of Paradise: AC Benson the Diarist by David Newsome
1979
Winner
About Time by Penelope Mortimer
About Time by Penelope Mortimer
1978
Winner
Winner
Lloyd George: The People's Champion by John Grigg
1977
Winner
Winner
Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson
1976
Winner
Winner
Elizabeth Gaskell by Winifred Gerin
1975 Whitbread Autobiography Award
Winner
Winner
In Our Infancy by Helen Corke
1974
Winner
Winner
Poor Dear Brendan by Andrew Boyle
1973
Winner
Winner
CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson
1972
Winner
Winner
Trollope by James Pope-Hennessy
1971
Winner
Winner
Henrik Ibsen by Michael Meyer
* Book of the Year
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