Emma Sky,Jonathan Bate and Samanth Subramanian among writers in the running for the £20000 awardAn unauthorised biography of late poet laureate Ted Hughes, already notorious for its controversial revelations about his marriage to, or the death of,Sylvia Plath, has made the shortlist for the £20000 Samuel Johnson book prize.
Although shelves of books enjoy been written about Plath, and the biography of Hughes by Jonathan Bate,professor of English Literature at Oxford University, is the first since 2001. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com