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The following are the election statements and biographies submitted by the candidates. RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT BRIAN JAY JONES Brian Jay Jones has been a BIO Board Member since 2009, served…
More than two-thirds of the spaces BIO has set aside for attendees at the 2014 Compleat Biographer Conference have been taken. If this record pace continues, some sessions will sell…
By James McGrath Morris Art critic Deborah Solomon has won plaudits from readers and critics alike for her recently published American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, the…
The 2014 spring list of forthcoming biographies is not as robust as that of previous spring seasons. Yet there are plenty of works that will attract attention and readers. As…
BIO members Megan Marshall and Linda Leavell will present “Making Modernism: A Conversation Between Biographers” at the BIO conference on May 17. As a prelude to that, Marshal interviwed Leavell…
March Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida's Environment by Peggy Macdonald (University Press of Florida) Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834–1907 by Carolyn Newton…
Stacy Schiff is the winner of the fifth annual BIO Award. BIO bestows this honor on a colleague who has made a major contribution to the advancement of the art…
By Will Swift How did a liberal Massachusetts Democrat come to write a book on the Nixon marriage, and how in the world could he sell that book through social…