The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize was a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a work judged as the year's best work of biography, autobiography or personal memoir by a Canadian writer.
Created in 1998, the award was named in honour of Nathan A. Taylor, one of the country's leading entertainment impresarios, and actor John Drainie. in favour of an expanded prize package for the Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Nominees and winners
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| align="center"| 1999
| François Ricard (author) and Patricia Claxton (translator), Gabrielle Roy: A Life
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- Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
- David Frank, J.B. McLachlan: A Biography
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- Irena F. Karafilly, The Stranger in the Plumed Hat
- A. B. McKillop, The Spinster & the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past
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- Clark Blaise, Time Lord
- Susan Crean, The Laughing One
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- Andrew Clark, A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Private Harold Joseph Pringle
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- Paul Adams, Summer of the Heart: Saving Alexandre
- Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
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- Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown
- Charles Montgomery, The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia
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- Michael Bliss, Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
- Michael Mitchell, The Molly Fire