Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography is awarded annually by the English Centre for International PEN to an author resident in Britain who has written an outstanding autobiography in English. The winner receives £1,000 and a silver pen. The winner is announced on PEN Writers' Day in June. The award was established by English author and editor J. R. Ackerley, who willed his royalties to a fund to provide the award. Recent winners 2002: Michael Foss, Out of India: A Raj Childhood 2001: Lorna Sage, Bad Blood 2000: Mark Frankland, Child of My Time 1999: Margaret Forster, Precious Lives This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.