Awards & Fellowships

The Biblio Award

About the Award

Established in 2012, the Biblio Award is presented annually to honor a librarian or archivist whose work has made an exceptional contribution to the craft of biography. The award is traditionally presented at the opening reception on the Friday evening before the BIO Annual Conference.

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Winners

2024

Stephen Enniss

Director of the Harry Ransom Center

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2023

David S. Ferriero

Archivist of the United States, the National Archives

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2022

Claudia Anderson

The LBJ Presidential Library

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2021

Jeff Flannery

Reference and Reader Services Section in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress

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2019

Nancy Kuhl

Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library

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2018

Michael T. Ryan

Vice President and Director, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society

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2017

Karen Adler Abramson and staff

John F. Kennedy Library Archives

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2016

David Grabarek

Library of Virginia

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2015

Thomas Mann

Library of Congress

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2014

Wallace Dailey and Heather Cole

Curators, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard University

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2013

David Smith

Reference Librarian, New York Public Library

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2012

Edward “Ned” Comstock

Senior Library Assistant, USC Cinematic Arts Library

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