Monday, October 12, 2015

Samuel Johnson book prize shortlist revealed


The books on the Samuel Johnson prize 2015 shortlist.Emma Sky, Jonathan Bate and Samanth Subramanian among writers in the running for the £20,000 award



The books on the Samuel Johnson prize 2015 shortlist. Photograph: Handout

An unauthorised biography of late poet laureate Ted Hughes, already notorious for its controversial revelations about his marriage to, and the death of, Sylvia Plath, has made the shortlist for the £20,000 Samuel Johnson book prize.

Although shelves of books have been written about Plath, the biography of Hughes by Jonathan Bate, professor of English Literature at Oxford University, is the first since 2001. 
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