2007 Marfield Prize
2007 Winner
Jenny Uglow, Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick (Faber and Faber Limited)
2007 Finalists
Carolyn Brown, Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham (Knopf)
Nigel Cliff, The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in
Nineteenth Century America (Random House)
William Jelani Cobb, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic (NYU Press)
Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Picador)
2007 Judges
Jamaica Kincaid, novelist
Nancy Pearl, author and librarian
Robert Pinsky, poet