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Segal Shares Thoughts on Biographies Mentoring: A Report from Both Sides  

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Jonathan Segal to Receive 2015 Editorial Excellence Award at Special Event

Jonathan Segal, editor of six Pulitzer-Prize winning books, will receive BIO’s second annual Editorial Excellence Award on Wednesday, November 4, at a special event, “How Great Biographies Get Made and…

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Jonathan Segal to Receive 2015 Editorial Excellence Award on November 4

Jonathan Segal, editor of six Pulitzer-Prize winning books, will receive BIO’s second annual Editorial Excellence Award on Wednesday, November 4, at a special event, “How Great Biographies Get Made and…

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BIO Mentoring Program Gets Underway

BIO’s new mentoring program for members is now accepting requests for matching with mentors. This program is designed to be helpful for biographers at all levels of experience: a BIO…

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Writing a Biography about a Subject Who Left Few Records of His Own

At the beginning of the last century, Ota Benga, a Congolese member of the Mbuti people known for their diminutive height, was brought to the United States and exhibited to…

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Lee’s Biography of Penelope Fitzgerald Wins Plutarch Award

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee won the Plutarch Award for best biography of 2014, as selected by members of Biographers International Organization. The winning book was announced at the…

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Branch Keynote Talk and Biographers in Conversation Highlight BIO Conference

Almost 200 established and aspiring biographers immersed themselves in their craft at the Sixth Annual Biographers International Organization Conference, held June 6 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.…

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Taylor Branch: 2015 BIO Award Winner

By James McGrath Morris Had it not been for the civil rights movement, Taylor Branch would have become a surgeon and the movement would have been deprived of one of…

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