September 1st, 2023
This special episode features a spirited conversation between award-winning journalist and biographer Pamela Newkirk and BIO’s 2023 Plutarch Award-winner Jennifer Homans. The Plutarch Award recognizes the best biography of the year, as determined by a BIO committee of distinguished biographers. Homans earned this honor for her latest book, Mr. B.: Balanchine’s 20th Century (Random House, November 2022). Homans is the dance critic for The New Yorker, a Scholar-in-Residence at New York University, and the founding…
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December 10th, 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, “Researching Under-Documented Lives, featured biographers Gaiutra Bahadur (
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture), Channing Gerald Joseph and Pamela Newkirk (
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga), The panel was moderated by author and BIO member Kavita Das (
Poignant Song: The Life …
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Tags: biographers, biography, podcast, research, researching, researching under-documented lives, underdocumented, writers
