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By Deirdre David In recalling the seven years of research that went into the first volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power (1982), Robert Caro describes driving from…
Natalie Dykstra and Marina Harss will each receive $2,500 as the winners of the first Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship. BIO introduced the fellowship in 2017 to honor the Caros’ work…
Online voting for the BIO Board of Directors for the 2018-2020 term opens March 15. You will receive an email with a link to the voting site, where you can…
We’re highlighting here some of the books due out this spring and summer that are likely to garner critical and popular acclaim, because of their subject, their author, or both.…
British author Richard Holmes, beloved for his biographies and memoirs about writing biography, is the winner of the ninth annual BIO Award. BIO bestows this honor on a colleague who has…
On September 20 and 21, 2018, BIO will join the Biography Institute and the Biography Society in hosting the conference Different Lives: Global Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and…
BIO's Plutarch Award Committee has chosen the four books highlighted below as the finalists for this year's Plutarch Award, the only international literary award for a biography that is chosen…
Here are the nominees for the 2018 Plutarch Award, honoring the best biography published in 2017, listed in alphabetical order by author: BIO PLUTARCH AWARD COMMITTEE MEMBERS, 2018: Anne C.…