John Lahr has won the eighth Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography with Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage Of The Flesh.
Lahr said of winning “You don’t write books for prizes, but it’s amazing how thrilling it is to win the acknowledgement because the whole enterprise is so solitary, and there are so many good writers – it’s a huge honour.”
Lahr won over Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave by Kika Markham, What do I Know?: People, Politics and the Arts by Richard Eyre, Covering Shakespeare by David Weston and I Know Nothing: The Autobiography by Andrew Sachs.
The prize is awarded for the best biography, autobiography or diary in theatre or show business published in the preceding calendar year.
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage Of The Flesh is Bloomsbury Circus.