October 3rd, 2025
Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour’s Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness, is this former broadcast journalist and author’s latest book. It was published by Beacon Press in September 2025, and her previous books include
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich – a
New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” and a
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice;
Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray, …
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Tags: Alison Owings, biographers, Biographers International Organization, biography, del seymour, Jenny Skoog, mayor of the tenderloin, podcast, san francisco
September 19th, 2025
Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me is the award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and author Mimi Pond’s latest book. Published by Drawn & Quarterly this month,
Do Admit is Ponds’ graphic biography of the six famous Mitford sisters of England. Pond’s earlier graphic novel,
Over Easy, a fictionalized account of her 1970s waitressing career, was on the
New York Times bestseller list and won a PEN Center Award for Graphic Literature, Outstanding Body of Work.…
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June 13th, 2025
90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey, published by Potomac Books this month, is this author’s biography of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow—a passionate Japanese individual whose lifelong endeavors helped safeguard mankind. Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University, where she engaged in cancer research, patient care, and teaching. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books:
Jonas Salk: A Life and
Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease. …
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May 9th, 2025
This
award-winning filmmaker, showrunner and Academy of Art University professor, talks about her documentary film,
Raise HELL: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and won the Audience Award at SXSW, along with numerous other festival awards and screenings in England and Ireland.
Raise HELL reflects themes Engel holds dear, speaking truth to power, igniting activism, advocacy and finding our shared humanity.
Engel’s work includes non-fiction…
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Tags: biographers, Biographers International Organization, biography, documentary, film, Janice Engel, Jenny Skoog, Molly Ivins, podcast, Raising Hell
May 2nd, 2025
These authors talk about a few of the different forms of biography.
Caitlin Cass’s graphic book,
Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S., was named a Best Art Book of 2024 by Hyperallergic. Since 2009, Cass has self-published a bi-monthly comic periodical called the
Great Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent, and her comics and cartoons have been published in
The New Yorker and
The …
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Tags: biographers, Biographers International Organization, biography, Caitlin Cass, graphic biography, group biography, Jenny Skoog, Lisa Napoli, podcast
April 25th, 2025
As the president of the Biographers International Organization,
Steve Paul talks about the organization’s exciting new initiatives in 2025 and beyond. Paul spent more than 40 years in daily journalism and now, as an independent scholar, he is devoted to literary biography. His most recent book,
Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell (University of Missouri Press)
, won
the 2022 Society of Midland Authors Award. He also co-edited a collection of scholarly…
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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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Tags: Alice Adams, Anasi's Gold, authors, BIO awards, BIO Conference, biographers, biography, Carol Sklenicka, Jenny Skoog, Plutarch Award, podcast, Raymond Carver, Yepoka Yeebo
April 4th, 2025
These guests talk about the awards that BIO offers for biographers. Heather Clarks is an author, literary critic and chair of BIO’s awards committee. Her most recent book,
Red Comet:
The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, was
one of the
New York Times Ten Best Books (2021), and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has won the…
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Tags: authors, BIO, BIO awards, BIO Conference, biographers, biography, Heather Clark, Jenny Skoog, podcast, Stephen Enniss
