The National Biography Award was established in 1996 to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in those genres. The National Biography Award is administered by the State Library of New South Wales on behalf of the award's benefactors, Geoffrey Cains and Michael Crouch.
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| Winner | Shortlist | ||||
2007 | East of Time | Mr Stuart's Track John Bailey | ||||
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2006 | The Idea of Home: | Curtin's Gift John K. Edwards | ||||
2005 | The Boy in the Green Suit | Inside Out (An Autobiography) Robert Adamson | ||||
2004 | Broken Song | Mussolini Richard Bosworth | ||||
2003-Joint Winners | Rose Boys | Recollections of a bleeding heart | ||||
2002 | A certain style: |
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2000-Joint Winners | Mandy Sayer | |||||
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