Biblio Award

Created by BIO in 2012, the Biblio Award is presented annually to recognize a librarian or archivist who has made an exceptional contribution to the craft of biography. The Biblio Award is traditionally presented at the opening reception on the Friday night before the Annual BIO Conference.

2024

Stephen Enniss

Director of the Harry Ransom Center

2023

David S. Ferriero

Archivist of the United States, the National Archives

2022

Claudia Anderson

The LBJ Presidential Library

2021

Jeff Flannery

Reference and Reader Services Section in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress

2019

Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry

Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library

2018

Michael T. Ryan, Vice President and Director

Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society

2017

Karen Adler Abramson and staff

John F. Kennedy Library Archives

2016

David Grabarek

Library of Virginia

2015

Thomas Mann

Library of Congress

2014

Wallace Dailey and Heather Cole, Curators

Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard University.

2013

David Smith, Reference Librarian

New York Public Library

2012

Edward “Ned” Comstock, Senior Library Assistant

USC Cinematic Arts Library