Annal:1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
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Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 1984. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors.
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
- 1984 JT Black-Biography winner
- Score: 10.34
This “original, intuitive, and even exciting” (The New Yorker) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf’s life and art—her childhood, her relationships with her father and sister, her marriage, and her descents into madness.


