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The Marsh Biography Award was a British literary award, given to the author of the best biography written in the previous two years by a British author. It was established in 1987 and was presented biennially until 2011. The Marsh Christian Trust and the
English Speaking Union
The English-Speaking Union (ESU) is an international educational membership organistation. Founded by the journalist Sir Evelyn Wrench in 1918, it aims to bring together and empower people of different languages and cultures, by building skill ...
presented this award in partnership.
Winners
* 1987 -
Roland Huntford
Roland Huntford ( Horwitch;Race To The Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest, Ranulph Fiennes, Hyperion, 2004, p. 387 born 1927) is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers.
Background and education
Huntford, the ...
Patrick Marnham
Patrick Marnham is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Literature in 1988. He is primarily known for his travel writing and for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as D ...
- ''The Man who Wasn't Maigret''
* 1995 - Selina Hastings - ''Evelyn Waugh''
* 1997 - Jim Ring - ''Erskine Childers''
* 1999 - Richard Holmes - ''Coleridge: Darker Reflections''
* 2001 -
Anthony Sampson
Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (3 August 1926 – 18 December 2004) was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was '' Anatomy of Britain'', which was published in 1962 and was followed by five more "Anatomies", upd ...
Maggie Ferguson
Maggie Ferguson (born in Sydney) is an Australian violinist and bandoneonista who studied orchestral tango at Orquesta Escuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce in Buenos Aires from 2003. In 2009, with the Sydney Youth Orchestras Association (SYO), she ...
- ''George Mackay Brown: The Life''
* 2009 - Rosemary Hill - ''God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain''
* 2011 - D.R. Thorpe - ''Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan''