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News, organizational updates, awards, fellowships, and more from BIO and the wider biography community.
From slices of famous lives to cradle-to-grave studies and explorations of linked lives, the spring and summer biographies already generating interest in the publishing world run the gamut. As is…
BIO is thrilled to announce that Candice Millard has won the 2017 BIO Award for her slice-of-life biographies of Winston Churchill and presidents James Garfield and Theodore Roosevelt. In her…
Registration is now open for the Eighth Annual BIO Conference, taking place May 19-21 at Emerson College in Boston. For more information, go here.
A distinguished panel of judges made up of members of Biographers International Organization (BIO) has selected the four finalists for the 2017 Plutarch Award. The Plutarch is the only international…
Here are the nominees for the 2017 Plutarch Award, honoring the best biography published in 2016, listed in alphabetical order by title: BIO PLUTARCH AWARD COMMITTEE MEMBERS, 2017:…
On May 19–21, the annual BIO Conference returns to Boston, where the organization held its first gathering in 2010. The conference will offer research workshops, a full day of panels,…
More than two dozen distinguished biographers from the United States and Europe met to talk about their work on November 4-5 at a conference co-sponsored by BIO and the Oxford…
On November 4-5, BIO and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing co-sponsored Biography Beyond Borders, a colloquium on American and European biography. The weekend in Oxford and London featured 29 distinguished biographers…