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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Michael Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johnson, Michael, born in 1967, American track-and-field athlete, who in 1995 won the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes at the world championship...
		American sprinter Michael Johnson broke his own world record in the 200-meter event at the 1996 Summer Olympics, easily winning the gold medal....
		The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction was founded in 1999, and is awarded annually in June to commemorate the publication of Samuel Johnson's...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Michael_Johnson.html (121 words)

	Samuel Johnson Prize
		The prize was established in December 1998 with the purpose of celebrating the variety and originality of contemporary non-fiction publishing.
		The Samuel Johnson Prize has been enthusiastically greeted by a literary world in which there has hitherto been a paucity of prestigious prizes for non-fiction.
		The Samuel Johnson Prize is open to books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.
	www.bookawards.bizland.com /samuel_johnson_prize.htm (404 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.
		Reading Boswell and Johnson together is an utter delight -- moving from the formality, grace and power of Johnson to the smaller, more intimate pleasures of Boswell gives one the feeling of having captured, in the adventurous peregrinations of these two inimitable characters, the very breadth and depth of eighteenth century English writing.
		Oxford's anthology of Samuel Johnson's writings is superior to Penguin's because it is more comprehensive, and displays more of his variety, as well as more of what he is known for.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192840428?v=glance (2137 words)

	Claire Tomalin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies.
		Her biography of Samuel Pepys won the Whitbread Book Award in 2002, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2003.
		Tomalin's first husband Nicholas Tomalin, a prominent journalist, was killed in the Arab-Israeli Six Day War in 1973; she is now married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claire_Tomalin (177 words)

	'Stalingrad' wins prize for non-fiction
		Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - Colman Getty
		Mr Beevor was presented with his prize by Mrs Blair and James Naughtie, chairman of the judges, at a dinner at the Banqueting House in Whitehall.
		The new prize was created by a group of publishers and media figures including Charles Moore, editor of The Daily Telegraph, and is sponsored by an anonymous British benefactor.
	news.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/06/15/nbook15.html (195 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Samuel Johnson Prize - Fiery Elephant
		Jonathan Coe is the winner of the £30,000 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005 for his book, Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson, published by Picador.
		In his heyday during the 1960s and early 70s, BS Johnson was one of the best-known young novelists in Britain.
		But in November 1973 Johnson's lifelong depression got the better of him, and he was found dead at his north London home.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson (309 words)

	SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NONFICTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Samuel Johnson Prize is Britain's most lucrative literary award for nonfiction, worth 30,000 Pounds to the winner.
		The Prize was established in December 1998 with the intent of celebrating the variety and originality of contemporary nonfiction publishing.
		The prize is awarded to a work in the English language published in the UK and written by an author of any nationality in one of the following areas: current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography, and the arts.
	home.comcast.net /~netaylor1/johnsonprize.html (102 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| BBC Four to sponsor book prize
		The BBC is to sponsor one of the country's leading non-fiction book awards, the Samuel Johnson prize.
		The Samuel Johnson prize was created in 1999 and this year it will be held in June.
		The prize is worth £30,000 for the winner with shortlisted writers earning £1,000 each.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1808781.stm (329 words)

	Observer \| Money, glitz, gossip - of course Johnson would've approved
		This question is worth asking because not only is the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (to give its full title) a healthy six years old, but it is also now televised on BBC Four, the channel that almost single-handedly sustains the corporation's claim to seriousness.
		It's a fair guess that the author of the celebrated Dictionary and enemy of cant would have been appalled at the absence of port and the glitzy presentational side of such an event - the celebrity judging panel; the TV lights and cameras; the marketing-speak, and the public relations-driven sentimentality.
		More significantly, Johnson would probably also have been mystified by the category of 'non-fiction', and by the idea of comparing Aidan Hartley's 'memoir of love and war', The Zanzibar Chest (HarperCollins) with Rubicon (Little, Brown), Tom Holland's impressive retelling of Roman history.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4951715-102280,00.html (446 words)

	Amazon.co.uk - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Congratulations to Lionel Shriver who has won the 2005 Orange Prize for her novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, the story of a fifteen year old boy who murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher.
		Jonathan Coe's Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson, which has won the 2005 BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize, explores the short life of a writer who, although now relatively obscure, was one of the best-known young novelists in Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s.
		A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, B.S. Johnson became famous--not to say notorious--both for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/596724 (411 words)

	Trinity College Alumni Magazine - Making History
		She was a spellbinding student debater back when Hart House, the centre of debating at the University of Toronto, discouraged women from the arguing arts, and even in the intimate surroundings of her new Trinity office, she gabs with the gusto of a savvy parliamentarian toying with the overmatched Opposition.
		And yet there she was in London just this past June, as the BBC cameras homed in on her and she was named winner of the £30,000 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, rising uncertainly to her feet with the knowledge that she had no idea what she was going to say next.
		Her gossipy, iconoclastic, supremely readable account of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference was thought by British bookies to have only an outside shot at the prize, competing as it was against such established favourites as Lord Jenkins of Hillhead's magisterial biography of Winston Churchill.
	www.trinity.utoronto.ca /Alumni/provost1.htm (915 words)

	Literary Prizes and Awards : Books, Literature and Reading : Entertainment and Recreation : Internet Gateway : ...
		Referred to colloquially as the "Booker", this literary prize is sponsored by Booker Plc and administered by the National Book League in the United Kingdom.
		The prize will be awarded once every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English, or generally available in translation in the English language.
		For women writers only, the Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK's largest annual literary award for a single novel.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Resources/ArtsMusicAndCulture/Literature/LiteraryPrizes/index.asp (408 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.K.
		A leading avant-garde writer during the 1960s and 1970s, Johnson's oeuvre includes a book with holes cut through the pages and a novel published in a box so that its unbound chapters may be read in any order.
		As his authorized biographer, Coe was granted access to Johnson's vast archive -- some 40 boxes in all -- of drafts and letters, juvenilia and jottings, and conducted dozens of interviews with those who knew him.
		Now in its seventh year, the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize is open to non-fiction works across the board -- in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts -- published in English in the U.K., regardless of the nationality of the author.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=abk0bGkRA0rw&refer=uk (568 words)

	Book awards — The BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize is the UK's most important prize for non-fiction.
		Named in honour of the critic, essayist, lexicographer, poet and biographer Samuel Johnson, the prize is funded by an anonymous British businessman and open to any work of non-fiction published in English in the UK, regardless of the author's nationality.
		Michael Wood said, "It is a great thrill to be asked to chair the foremost non-fiction prize in Britain — and especially with such a distinguished panel of judges.
	lindsayandhowes.co.uk /awards_bbc42004.asp (341 words)

	Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction - Christchurch City Libraries
		The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction aims to reward the best of non-fiction, from biography, travel and popular science to the arts and current affairs.
		The Samuel Johnson is the UK's richest prize for non-fiction and was set up in 1999.
		The prize is open to any non-fiction book as long as it is published in English and in the UK.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /LiteraryPrizes/SamuelJohnson (278 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Orange Prize for Fiction
		The Orange Prize was launched in 1996 to promote fiction by women writers.
		It has been praised by "The Times" as being the only literary award comitted to promoting writers of quality.
		It is administered by the Book Trust with an annual prize of £30,000 and a bronze figurine created by Grizel Niven.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/awards/orange.phtml (53 words)

	Kabul Press: First-time author wins richest British literary prize
		Anna Funder was awarded the $59,000 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction this week.
		In awarding the prize, the judges said that Funder unearths "extraordinary tales from the underbelly" of the former East Germany.
		Ben Jelloun, born in Fez in 1944, has lived since 1961 in France, where he won the Prix Goncourt in 1987 for his novel "The Sacred Night." The Impac Dublin Literary Award is financed by Impac, a Florida-based management company owned by James B. Irwin Sr., who wanted to note Ireland's contributions to world literature.
	kabulpress.org /caltural17.htm (440 words)

	Powell's Books - Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe
		For some he is a saint, for others the embodiment of human weakness, an archetypal politician willing to sacrifice one man for the sake of stability.
		In this dazzlingly conceived biography, a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Ann Wroe brings man and myth to life.
		Working from classical sources, she plunges us into the world of biblical Judaea under the reign of the erratic and licentious emperor Tiberius and lets us see the trial of Jesus, in all its confusion, from the point of view of his executioner.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0375753974-0 (410 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Books - The Samuel Johnson Prize 2005 Shortlist
		This year's shortlist for the contemporary non-fiction prize included an account of shocking crimes in Victorian London and tales of two cities.
		The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize is open to the authors of all non-fiction books published in the UK, regardless of nationality.
		Each of the shortlisted authors receives £1,000, while the prize for the winner is £30,000
	www15.thdo.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson/shortlist.shtml (192 words)

	Geological Society - News - Speaking from experience
		Now not only do popular science books have a prize of their own, but they are invading the domain of more "mainstream" literary prizes too.
		Mr Amis, whose writing is often described as "combining the fashionable with the unreadable", had been displaced by a book combining the unfashionable with the inedible.
		But, as Andrew Marr (BBC Political Correspondent and chairman of the Samuel Johnson Prize Committee) remarked: "…our current non-fiction writing is currently eclipsing anything being done in the novel in this country".
	www.geolsoc.org.uk /template.cfm/template.cfm?name=Parkes (1190 words)

	Orange Prize for Fiction 2003 - Annalena McAfee interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They can be a bit of a circus but they do bring books onto the main news agenda, which can't be a bad thing.
		The Perrier comedy awards in Edinburgh, the South Bank Show arts awards and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.
		As good-humoured as Perrier, as wide-ranging as the South Bank awards and as rigorous as the Samuel Johnson.
	www.orangeprize.co.uk /2003prize/judges/mcaint.html (206 words)

	Gelber Prize for Non-Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This biography of Keynes was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
		The Gelber Prize and the Munk Center for International Studies have jointed in partnership to promote public debate on global issues.
		The mandate of the Munk Center is to promote interdisciplinary scholarship, faculty and student exchange, and to create opportunities for members of the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors to join in collaborative research, teaching and public education.
	www.literature-awards.com /gelber_prize.htm (417 words)

	Samuel Johnson Prize -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Samuel Johnson Prize is one of the world's most prestigious awards for (Click link for more info and facts about non-fiction) non-fiction writing.
		It was founded in 1999 based on an anonymous donation and is managed by (Click link for more info and facts about BBC 4) BBC 4.
		The prize is named after (English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)) Samuel Johnson.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/samuel_johnson_prize.htm (549 words)

	Antony Beevor
		Stalingrad, first published in 1998, won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1999.
		The British edition, a number one bestseller in both hardback and paperback, is appearing in twenty-five languages.
		He was a judge of the British Academy Book Prize and the David Cohen Prize in 2004, and is a member of the Samuel Johnson Prize steering committee.
	www.antonybeevor.com /Biography/biography.htm (589 words)

	Aussie takes top British literary prize - Books - www.smh.com.au
		the Samuel Johnson Prize is her book's first win.
		Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize, worth £30,000 ($78,600), from a list of nominees that included international bestsellers such as Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything and Anne Applebaum's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag: A History.
		Stasiland had been nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, the Heinemann Prize, the Age Book of the Year Award and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award, among others, but this was its first win.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/16/1087244973672.html (443 words)

	Maud Newton: Blog
		Jonathan Coe’s Like a Fiery Elephant was recently shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.
		Last year Coe delivered a lecture in which he discussed, among other things, the rhapsodic Samuel Beckett blurb that first led him to read Johnson.
		And indeed, one of the things I discovered when I came to write my biography of B S Johnson [just released in the U.S.] was that Beckett had never sanctioned the public use of these words.
	maudnewton.com /blog/index.php?p=5212 (299 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Debut author wins Johnson prize
		Debut author Anna Funder has won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for her book about the hardships endured by people from the former East Germany.
		Past winners of the Samuel Johnson Prize, now in its sixth year, have included Michael Burleigh for his book about the Third Reich and TJ Binyon for his biography of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
		This year saw 120 books submitted, which were whittled down to a longlist of 23 before the shortlist of six was chosen.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3808467.stm (412 words)

	Correspondents Report - Stasiland: Life behind the Berlin Wall
		But it seems they're not being allowed to, thanks to Australian author, Anna Funder, who last week won the British Samuel Johnson prize for non fiction for her book Stasiland.
		Well, while Anna Funder was in London to receive her prize, she spoke to our Europe Correspondent Fran Kelly.
		There are groups of, increasingly the older men, who do meet and they are alleged to do things like cut the brake leads of people who continued to speak out about the regime, or they deliver unwanted pornography to their houses to embarrass them, or they
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2004/s1135715.htm (1202 words)

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