April 11th, 2025
These celebrated authors talk about BIO’s Plutarch Award for Biography – the organization’s annual recognition of the year’s best biography, as determined by a committee of five distinguished biographers from nominations by BIO members and publishers. First time biographer and British Ghanaian journalist
Yepoka Yeebo took home BIO’s 2024 Plutarch Award for her book,
Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington and Swindled the World (Bloomsbury, 2023).
The book also was
shortlisted…
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December 31st, 2021
This week we offer the next episode in a special mini-series featuring highlights from panel discussions conducted during BIO’s first virtual annual conference, held May 14-16, 2021. The session, Writing the First Biography of Your Subject, featured biographers Justin Gifford (
Revolution or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver), Abigail Santamaria (
Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis) and Carol Sklenicka (
Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer…
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Tags: Abigail Santamaria, BIO conference 2021, biographers, biography, Carol Sklenicka, Debby Applegate, interviewing, interviews, Justin Gifford, podcast, writers, Writing the First Biography of Your Subject
