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The following Master Classes will be offered Sunday morning May 18th at the University of Massachusetts Boston during the Compleat Biographer annual conference. Promoting Your Biography: Hiring a Publicist or…
Registration for the fifth annual Compleat Biographer conference opens this month. All BIO members will be notified by email when the registration site is open for business. Active BIO members…
By Barbara Burkhardt When J. Michael Lennon was pondering where and how to begin his recently published biography, Norman Mailer: A Double Life, he found his solution while taking a…
Celebrating its fifth year, the BIO Compleat Biographer Conference will be held May 16-18 at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, the site of the first conference in 2010. Since…
by Carol Sklenicka When I met research consultant David Smith, winner of the 2013 Biblio Award, at the BIO reception at the New York Society Library in May, I…
Studying the craft of biography and the biographers who have shaped it, writing biographies, editing and publishing the works of other biographers: In a career that has spanned almost 40…
The Program and Site Committees have begun their work on putting together the 2014 Compleat Biographer Conference that will be held in Boston on May 16-18. Returning to the campus…
Reza Aslan seems to have found the perfect formula for rocketing a biography to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list: Take a well-known subject, present a…