Krithika Varagur (left) and Keri Walsh (right).

Krithika Varagur and Keri Walsh are the winners of the 2024 Robert and Ina Caro Travel Fellowships for travel. They will receive $5,000 each for research trips to archives or important settings in their subjects’ lives. Varagur is at work on a group biography, The Singh Princesses: Three Sisters at the End of Empire, to be published by Penguin Press. Varagur will use the fellowship to make a research trip to Germany.  

Keri Walsh is at work on Shakespeare and Company: The Paris Bookstore that Changed the World, a dual biography of the bookstore’s proprietors, Sylvia Beach and George Whitman, which will be published by Scribner. Walsh will use the fellowship funds to conduct research in Paris.  

The 2024 Caro Travel Fellowship Committee members were Carla Kaplan (chair), Marc Leepson, and Susan Page.