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By Lisa Napoli If you attended the pre-conference festivities last year in New York, you may have seen BIO board member Sonja Williams and me wrangling audio gear as members…
Amy Reading and Nicholas Boggs are this year's winners of the Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowships. The $2,500 fellowships are available, on a competitive basis, to BIO members with…
Hear what biographers have to say about their work in BIO's new, weekly podcast. You can find out more about the podcast and listen to an interview with James Atlas,…
A distinguished panel of judges, all eminent biographers, has selected the final four titles in contention for the Plutarch Award, honoring the best biography of 2018. The Plutarch is the…
Here are the four finalists for the 2019 Plutarch Award, honoring the best biography published in 2018, listed in alphabetical order by author: 2019 Plutarch Jury members: Megan Marshall, chair;…
BIO co-founder James McGrath Morris, a writer, a teacher, and a mentor to other biographers, is the winner of the 10th annual BIO Award. BIO bestows this honor on a…
Registration for the Tenth Annual BIO Conference (#BIONYC2019), to be held May 17-19 at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is now open. You can get more information,…
A distinguished panel of judges, all eminent biographers, has nominated ten books for the Plutarch Award, honoring the best biography of 2018. The Plutarch is the only international literary award…