Awards & Fellowships

The Biblio Award

About the Award
Winners

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

2023

David S. Ferriero

Archivist of the United States, the National Archives

2022

Claudia Anderson

The LBJ Presidential Library

2021

Jeff Flannery

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

2019

Nancy Kuhl

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

2018

Michael T. Ryan

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

2017

Karen Adler Abramson and staff

John F. Kennedy Library Archives

2016

David Grabarek

Library of Virginia

2015

Thomas Mann

Library of Congress

2014

Wallace Dailey and Heather Cole

Curators, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard University

2013

David Smith

Reference Librarian, New York Public Library

2012

Edward “Ned” Comstock

Senior Library Assistant, USC Cinematic Arts Library