Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 longlist announced

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 Books+Publishing

The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK.

The longlisted titles are:

Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo, Scribe)
One on One (Craig Brown, Fourth Estate)
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Wade Davis, Bodley Head)
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Masha Gessen, Granta Books)
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Thor Hansen, Basic Books)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman, Penguin)
The Old Ways (Robert MacFarlane, Hamish Hamilton)
Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Ray Monk, Jonathan Cape)
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genuis (Sylvia Nasar, Fourth Estate)
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England (Thomas Penn, Penguin)
The Better Angels of Our Nature (Steven Pinker, Penguin)
The Spanish Holocaust (Paul Preston, HarperCollins)
Strindberg: A Life (Sue Prideaux, Yale University Press)
Joseph Anton (Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Cape).

The winner of this year’s prize, worth £20,000 (A$31,115), will be announced on 12 November. For more information about the prize, click here.