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Alan Bennett among six nominees for Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20060523
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AP Worldstream
05-23-2006
Dateline: LONDON
Award-winning playwright Alan Bennett was nominated for Britain's richest nonfiction book prize Tuesday for his wry and witty volume "Untold Stories."
Bennett, whose Tony Award-nominated play "The History Boys" is currently running on Broadway, is one of six authors shortlisted for the 30,000 pound (US$57,000; euro44,000) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. The winner will be announced in London on June 14.
"Untold Stories" includes a memoir of Bennett's Yorkshire family and a collection of diaries recounting the writer's battle with cancer alongside ...
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