Fordlandia shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography

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Congratulations to Greg Grandin, whose brilliant tale of Henry Ford’s hubristic attempt to build an American town in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, has been shortlisted for the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, worth £10,000 to the winning author.

The three other books shortlisted are:

A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray
EM Forster : a new life by Wendy Moffat
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling

The winner will be announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August. Edinburgh University’s press release about it is here and you can read more about the book – described by Waterstones Books Quarterly as an  ‘absorbing account of the forgotten jungle venture’ – here.