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The following are election statements and biographies submitted by candidates for BIO's President, Vice President, and the BIO Board of Directors. In 2016, there are nine board seats up for…
The following are election statements and biographies submitted by candidates for BIO's President, Vice President, and the BIO Board of Directors. In 2016, there are nine board seats up for…
In the first of several previews of panels offered at the Seventh Annual BIO Conference, moderator James Atlas takes a look at some of his panelists’ views on their topic,…
By Deirdre David Whether strolling down St. Marks Place, wrestling with the many lives of Orson Welles, or wondering where Virginia Woolf got her clothes, the biographer must inevitably confront…
While publishing insiders may say that the overall selection of new biographies coming out this spring and summer is not as impressive as last year’s stellar crop, the range of…
BIO is proud to announce the four finalists for the 2015 Plutarch Award -- the world’s only literary award presented by biographers, to biography. The four finalists for the 2015 Plutarch…
The following list of biographies appearing between March and August 2016 was assembled using Edelweiss, a web-based interactive publisher catalog system widely used in the book industry. If we missed…
Claire Tomalin, winner of multiple prizes for her literary biographies, is the winner of the seventh annual BIO Award. BIO bestows this honor on a colleague who has made a…