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Welcome! Each week, we post fascinating discussions with biographers from around the country and the world.

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BIO Zoom Workshop: Biography and Storytelling – A Conversation with Candice Millard

March 16th, 2021

How do biographers create compelling narratives from the facts of history? In her captivating slice-of-life biographies, BIO Award winner Candice Millard shows us how it’s done, with stirring and highly […]

Podcast Episode #25 – 2019 BIO Conference Panel: Fire Up Your Narrative

August 16th, 2019

This week’s episode features highlights from a panel from the 2019 BIO Conference, “Fire Up Your Narrative,” with moderator Linda Leavell and panelists John A. Farrell, Ruth Franklin, Caroline Fraser, […]

2018 Conference Goers Take Home Useful Insights from Top Biographers

July 9th, 2018

Below are reports on two of the panels that were offered at the Ninth Annual BIO Conference in May, written with assistance from John Grady. Each article continues on the […]

Lee’s Biography of Penelope Fitzgerald Wins Plutarch Award

July 9th, 2015

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 […]

Leavell’s Marianne Moore Wins Second Annual Plutarch

June 15th, 2014

Linda Leavell’s Holding on Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) won the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2013. The winner and […]

Compleat Biographer Preview: Panelists Megan Marshall and Linda Leavell in Conversation

February 9th, 2014

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 […]