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News, organizational updates, awards, fellowships, and more from BIO and the wider biography community.
Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright, an imprint of W. W. Norton, will receive BIO's fourth annual Editorial Excellence Award on Wednesday, November 8, at the Leon Levy Center…
James Atlas’s The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale was published to high praise by Pantheon Books on August 22. As Ron Chernow wrote about the book, “Anyone even remotely interested…
We’re highlighting here just some of the books due out this fall and winter that are likely to garner critical and popular acclaim, because of their subject, their author, or…
Responding to the recent trend of awarding the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography to authors of memoirs, Biography International Organization has written to Pulitzer Prize administrator, Mike Pride, asking…
Whether doing their own research, using the perspective of those close to their subjects, relying on existing print biographies, or combining elements of all three, biographical filmmakers can take a…
By Billy Tooma The Black Eagle of Harlem is a study in biography and forgotten history. Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian—aviator, soldier of fortune, and arms dealer—led a life of high…
Whether doing their own research, using the perspective of those close to their subjects, relying on existing print biographies, or combining elements of all three, biographical filmmakers can take a…
Here are the finalists for the 2017 Plutarch Award, honoring the best biography published in 2016, listed in alphabetical order by title. The winner will be announced on May 20…