The Charles Taylor Prize in literary nonfiction
announces the shortlist for its 2014 award, to be announced March 10
Charlotte Gray, The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country;
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America;
J.B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be;
Graeme Smith, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan;
David Stouck, Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life.
A good list, strong on history and biography and good writing too. As has been something of a tradition with the Taylor, the jury is short on practitioners of nonfiction. Coral Ann Howells is a distinguished critic... of fiction. James Polk is an editor and teacher. Only Andrew Westoll writes the stuff.
