Awards: Tony Lothian Winner

The Biographers' Club announced that Harriet Baker has won the £2,000 (about $2,530) Tony Lothian Prize, which recognizes "the best proposal for a first biography," for Rural Hours: Interwar Female Writers, Landscape and Living, a collective biography that explores "the rural lives of female writers--Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rosamond Lehmann, Rose Macaulay and Dorothy Richardson--in the period covering the two world wars."

The judges said that Baker's proposal "is rich in potential, promising to change our perspective on the writers in question, and refreshing in its radical approach."

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