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Book on Putin, Rushdie memoirs for Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize | | A book about Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the memoirs
of Salman Rushdie are featuring alongside Wade Davis' account of his early attempts to climb Mt. Everest during the Great War in the nominations for this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. The
story of Putin's rise from a low-level KGB operative to leader of the world's
largest country in Masha Gessen's 'The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of
Vladimir Putin', features alongside Wade Davis' book, named 'Into the Silence:
The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest'. Rushdie's latest book, named
'Joseph Anton', is about the pseudonym that he used following a fatwa being issued
against him, the BBC reports. Bbiologist Thor Hanson's 'Feathers', which is also
one of the 14 books that have been nominated for the coveted prize, details a
sweeping natural history of feathers that have been used to fly, protect, attract,
and adorn throughout the world. The prize aims to highlight original, diverse
and thought-provoking books which bring non-fiction subjects to a wide audience.
The winner will be announced on 12th November. The judges for the competition
will be chaired by MP David Willetts, who is the Minister for Universities and
Science, Guardian's non-fiction editor Paul Laity, editor of Prospect magazine
Bronwen Maddox, writer and biographer Patrick French and philosopher, poet, and
novelist Professor Raymond Tallis, the report said. The list of the 14 books nominated
for Samuel Johnson Prize for this year are: Joseph Anton, by Salman Rushdie The
Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Masha Gessen Behind
the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo One on One, by Craig Brown Into the Silence:
The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis Feathers, by
Thor Hansen Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman The Old Ways , by Robert
MacFarlane Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Ray Monk Grand
Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, by Sylvia Nasar Winter King, by Thomas
Penn The Better Angels of our Nature, by Steven Pinker The Spanish Holocaust,
by Paul Preston Strindberg A Life, by Sue Prideaux.
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