Finalist: In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding , by Deborah Baker (Grove Press )
The Jury
The Jury
William S. McFeely(chair )
Richard B. Russell Professor of History
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich*
professor of History
Geoffrey C. Ward
biographer
Winners in Biography
1994 Prize Winners
Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld
For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
William Raspberry
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
Lloyd Schwartz
For his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.