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The fall season of 2013 (August through February) has the most impressive lineup of biographies in years. Sucking up a lot of publicity oxygen will be Wilson by A. Scott…
By Betsy Connor Bowen You’ve written a book, it’s getting published. You’re fired up. Everything’s coming up roses. You’ve earned your chops. Not so fast. It’s a new world for…
If your forthcoming book is not listed below, drop us a line. August The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki by Donald Keene (Columbia University Press)…
With the publishing of her Bolivar: An American Liberator, BIO member Marie Arana has won glowing reviews and been featured in many media outlets. Born in Peru, Arana is the…
Royal Family Denounces Film of Princess Grace Grace of Monaco, with Nicole Kidman playing the title role, is expected to receive Oscar considerations when it’s released this December. But as…
In a year in which he was passed over by the Pulitzer Prize Committee, Robert Caro won the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2102 for The Passage of…
With the non-stop buzz of midtown Manhattan as a backdrop, more than 200 biographers from eight countries attended the fourth annual Compleat Biographer Conference on May 18 at the Roosevelt…
A site familiar to many authors, here is James McGrath Morris's manuscript of his next book as it nears its end.