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SHORTLISTED for the Baillie Gifford Prize's 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

A Spectator Book of the Year ¿ A Times Book of the Year ¿ A Telegraph Book of the Year ¿ A Sunday Times Book of the Year

Note biographique

Craig Brown's last book, Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaretwon both the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature. His previous book, One on One, was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson prize for Non-Fiction. He has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye magazine for over thirty years, and is currently a columnist for the Daily Mailand the Mail on Sunday. Over the years, he has written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including Vanity Fair, the Sunday Times, the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Guardianand the New York Review of Books. He lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk with his wife Frances Welch; they have two children.

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