Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Histories in Charles Taylor race

Quill & Quire reports the nominees for the Charles Taylor Prize in non-fiction (the big $25000 one). Two histories and a historical memoir:

John English’s Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968.

Ross King’s The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism.

Rudy Wiebe’s Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest.

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