The Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction was given out today in Toronto.
The jurors narrowed down a field of 135 books from all fields of non-fiction to just three. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the three finalists had all written histories.
Tim Cook's Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918, a history of Soldier's letters in WWI, won the grand prize. Tim is also an employee of the Canadian War Museum.
Also on the short list were Elizabeth Abbott's Sugar: A Bittersweet History and Ana Siljak's Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russian's Revolutionary World.
Take that non-historians!
1 comment:
I come by to see your blog, and am slapped in the face with a "take that non-historians."
I wonder how many AC blog readers are disgruntled by your anti-non-historianism.
It hurts man.
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