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News, organizational updates, awards, fellowships, and more from BIO and the wider biography community.
On September 20 and 21, 2018, BIO joins the Biography Institute and the Biography Society in hosting the conference “Different Lives: Global Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and Societies.”…
More than 225 established and aspiring biographers from three continents immersed themselves in their craft at the Ninth Annual Biographers International Organization Conference, held May 18 and 19, at the…
Caroline Fraser won the 2018 Plutarch Award for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The book had previously won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, among other honors. Fraser…
By James Atlas A great biographer is someone who writes great biographies. A revolu- tionary biographer is someone who writes revolutionary biographies. Since the publication of his massive, ingenious, and…
TBC: What was it like being president? Will Swift: Haven’t I always been the president of BIO? We shift our identities more easily than we think—I can barely remember not being…
Acclaimed literary biographer Richard Holmes will receive the 2018 BIO Award at BIO's upcoming conference in New York and give the keynote speech on May 19. As a preview of…
The recent election for the BIO board of directors marked the end of Will Swift’s two-year term as president. Will shared some thoughts with The Biographer's Craft on his achievements, the future…
By Linda Leavell “All biographies are group biographies. All lives are surrounded by a constellation of other lives,” said Susan Hertog, at a previous BIO Conference. “Every biographer must choose…