
Baillie Gifford winner of winners James Shapiro: ‘I draw a very sharp line between fiction and nonfiction’
[ad_1] Serendipity dictated that the American writer and academic James Shapiro received the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction’s Winner of Winners award, given to celebrate its 25th year, at a ceremony in Edinburgh. In his teens and early 20s, Shapiro tells me as we talk over Zoom the morning after his victory, he would often…