The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography was established in 2003 in memory of Elizabeth Longford (1906-2002), the British author, biographer and historian. The £5,000 prize is awarded annually for a historical biography published in the preceding year.
4-511: The Elizabeth Longford Prize is sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros and administered by the Society of Authors . 2022 Shortlist: 2021 Shortlist: 2020 Shortlist: 2019 Shortlist: 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 Flora Fraser (writer) Flora Elizabeth Fraser Soros (born 30 October 1958)
8-574: A well-known politician, social reformer, and author. She was named for the Scottish Jacobite Flora MacDonald . Using her maiden name Flora Fraser, she has written biographies of Emma Hamilton , Caroline of Brunswick , the daughters of George III , and Pauline Bonaparte . Fraser attended Holland Park School for one year before joining her elder sister Rebecca at St Paul's Girls' School . She then read Classics at Wadham College, Oxford . Fraser married Robert Powell-Jones at
12-558: Is an English writer of historical biographies. She is a daughter of historian and historical biographer Lady Antonia Fraser and Sir Hugh Fraser , a British Conservative politician . Her mother is of English descent while her father was Scottish . Her stepfather was the playwright Harold Pinter , the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature , her mother's second husband until his death in 2008. Her maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Longford , also an eminent biographer, and Lord Longford ,
16-526: The age of 21, with whom she had a daughter. Powell-Jones died of a heart attack in 1998, aged 44. She later married Peter Soros, a nephew of American currency speculator and philanthropist George Soros , with whom she has two children. Fraser and Soros separated in 2009. Fraser lives in London . Source: This article about a non-fiction writer from the United Kingdom or one of its constituent countries
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