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Selina Hastings
Lady Selina Hastings, daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon, is a biographer who has written highly-praised lives of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maugham.
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Allan Massie
Allan Massie was the inadvertent cause of a Booker Prize bust-up when, in 1991, one of the judges, Nicholas Mosely, resigned in protest at the non-shortlisting of Massie’s The Sins of the Father.
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Trevor McDonald
Sir Trevor McDonald is one of the best-known faces on British television, becoming ITN’s first black reporter in 1973, four years after arriving from Trinidad to work for BBC Radio.
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John B. Thompson
John Thompson is a professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge and has written widely on the role played by the media and publishing in the shaping of modern society.
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Michael Foot
Michael Foot, who died in 2010, chaired the prize jury just three years after stepping down as leader of the Labour Party following a crushing defeat in the 1993 general election. He remained an MP.
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Sebastian Faulks
At the time of the 1988 prize, Sebastian Faulks was not yet a well-known novelist and radio presence but a literary journalist on the still new Independent with a single book to his name.
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Philip French
Philip French, who died in 2015, was a film critic with a 50-year relationship with the Observer newspaper. It is estimated that during that time he sat through some 14,000 films.
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Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison is an author and academic whose work encompasses poetry, autobiography, fiction, non-fiction (including a study of the murder of James Bulger), libretti and journalism.
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Maggie Gee
In the early 1980s, Maggie Gee received both a hug and a slap: she was named on the 1983 Granta Best of Young British Novelists list and had her sixth novel refused by numerous publishers.
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Helen McNeil
Helen McNeil, then a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, was one of the judges – with Maggie Gee - who famously blocked Martin Amis’s London Fields from the shortlist.