{"id":1960,"date":"2011-04-18T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T14:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:31","slug":"biography-dominates-samuel-johson-prize-longlist-guardian-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/18\/biography-dominates-samuel-johson-prize-longlist-guardian-co-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography dominates Samuel Johson prize longlist (Guardian.co.uk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/apr\/15\/biography-samuel-johnson-prize-longlist\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Samuel-Johnson-007.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shortlist will be revealed on 14 June, with the winner announced on 6 July.<\/p>\n<p>The longlist in full:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tolstoy by Rosamund Bartlett<\/p>\n<p>Afghantsy by Rodric Braithwaite<\/p>\n<p>Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher<\/p>\n<p>The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal<\/p>\n<p>Mao&#8217;s Great Famine by Frank Dik\u00c3\u00b6tter<\/p>\n<p>Caravaggio by Andrew Graham Dixon<\/p>\n<p>Liberty&#8217;s Exiles by Maya Jasanoff<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky<\/p>\n<p>Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation by Stuart Kelly<\/p>\n<p>People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry<\/p>\n<p>The Bridge by David Remnick<\/p>\n<p>The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley<\/p>\n<p>Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg<\/p>\n<p>Reprobates by John Stubbs<\/p>\n<p>Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock<\/p>\n<p>Bomber County by Daniel Swift<\/p>\n<p>Sex Before the Sexual Revolution by Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher<\/p>\n<p>Amexica: War Along The Borderline by Ed Vulliamy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/apr\/15\/biography-samuel-johnson-prize-longlist\">Biography dominates Samuel Johson prize longlist | Books | guardian.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The shortlist will be revealed on 14 June, with the winner announced on 6 July. The longlist in full: Tolstoy by Rosamund Bartlett Afghantsy by Rodric Braithwaite Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal Mao&#8217;s Great Famine by Frank Dik\u00c3\u00b6tter Caravaggio by Andrew Graham &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/18\/biography-dominates-samuel-johson-prize-longlist-guardian-co-uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biography dominates Samuel Johson prize longlist (Guardian.co.uk)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1,6],"tags":[314,354,303,254,353],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","category-new-books","tag-award","tag-guardian","tag-longlist","tag-nonfiction","tag-samueljohnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}