
Biographers' Club
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Committed to supporting, promoting & connecting biographers. Runs Slightly Foxed Best First Biography, Tony Lothian & Lifetime Services to Biography Prizes.
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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 | #FoxedPrize 2020 Shortlist foxedquarterly.com/shop/jonathan-… ScribnerUK Simon & Schuster UK


Hadley Freeman, House of Glass | Hadley Freeman beautifully writes about the extraordinary lives of her grandmother Sala & her siblings, from their shtetl in Poland to Paris & Long Island | Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast Prize 2020 Shortlist 4th Estate Books foxedquarterly.com/shop/hadley-fr…


Sudhir Hazareesingh, Black Spartacus | A gripping biography of Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the slave revolt that led to Haiti’s independence | Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast Prize 2020 Shortlist Allen Lane @PenguinUkBooks foxedquarterly.com/shop/sudhir-ha…


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 | Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast 2020 Shortlist Chatto&Windus Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency foxedquarterly.com/shop/shelley-k…


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 | Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast 2020 Shortlist ScribnerUK Simon & Schuster UK foxedquarterly.com/shop/jonathan-…


Heather Clark, Red Comet | In this meticulous, compassionate life, Heather Clark offers illuminating readings of Sylvia Plath’s poems, & brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman & visionary artist | Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast Prize 2020 Shortlist Jonathan Cape



Member Henrietta Heald releases new book 'Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines'. Described as 'A sensational book' by Dr Jess Wade liked it here once it is out on the 4t March #thebiographersclub thebiographersclub.com/henrietta-heal…

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-slightly-f… Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast #FoxedPrize


Tomorrow night we will be announcing the winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2020! The shortlist includes: Heather Clark, Hadley Freeman, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Shelley Klein & Jonathan Lichtenstein #FoxedPrize Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast


Heather Clark wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for Red Comet | The prize of £2,500 has been awarded to Heather Clark & we raise a glass to Heather & the shortlist. Congratulations to all! Biographers' Club #FoxedPrize foxedquarterly.com/heather-clark-…… Jonathan Cape


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/courses/simon-… Contact Nicholas Clee Biographers' Club



We are excited to announce that the judges for The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize of 2021 are Susannah Clapp Horatio Clare & JohndeFalbe. If you would like to enter this year all the information can be found Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast and thebiographersclub.com



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-angel… Vintage Books


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 Maggs Bros. Ltd.! Biographers' Club #FoxedPrize Allen Lane Penguin Books UK



At the Slightly Foxed | Magazine, Small Press, Podcast Best First Biography Prize party Maggs Bros. Ltd.: shortlisted authors (from left) Ian Collins, Eileen Atkins, Lea Ypi, Alex Christofi, Annabel Abbs.
