Previous winners of the Best First Biography Prize, now known as the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize:
- 2009 Roland Chambers for The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome (Faber)
- 2010 Wendy Moffatt for E.M. Forster: A New Life (Bloomsbury)
- 2011 Matthew Hollis for Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber)
- 2012 Thomas Penn for Winter King (Penguin)
