The Plutarch Award Nominees for 2017
Here are the nominees for the 2017 Plutarch Award, honoring the best biography published in 2016, listed in alphabetical order by title:
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- Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
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- The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship by Alex Beam
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- Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson
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- His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyveld
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- Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
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- John Aubrey, My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
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- Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch
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- Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas
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- Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band by Simon Callow
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- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
BIO PLUTARCH AWARD COMMITTEE MEMBERS, 2017:
Cathy Curtis
Deirdre David
John Farrell (Chair)
Anne C. Heller
Linda Leavell
John Matteson
Hans Renders
David O. Stewart
Will Swift
Amanda Vaill