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Six books shortlisted for Samuel Johnson nonfiction prize in Britain
From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20050512
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AP Worldstream
05-12-2005
Dateline: LONDON
A portrait of Victorian grave-robbers and the biography of a homeless man are among six books nominated Thursday for Britain's richest nonfiction prize.
Sarah Wise's "The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London" and Alexander Masters' "Stuart: A Life Backwards" were shortlisted for the 30,000-pound (US$56,000, euro44,000) Samuel Johnson Prize.
Other nominees are Suketu Mehta's portrait of Bombay, "Maximum City"; Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's "Istanbul: Memories of a City"; Hilary Spurling's artist biography "Matisse the Master"; and "Like ...
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