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Q&A with Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction winner Helen Macdonald

"My fascination with birds goes back so long.... When I was about five or six, I think I used to try and sleep with my hands behind my back like wings." Helen Macdonald discusses her memoir, H Is For Hawk (Jonathan Cape, 2014), which received the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, and won the 2014 Costa Book Award this week.

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H Is For Hawk
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Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
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