The Phi Beta Kappa Society recently announced the winners of its 2021 Book Awards. Two of the prize shortlists featured a biography as a contender. For the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Galileo and the Science Deniers by Mario Livio (Simon & Schuster) was shortlisted. Eddie S. Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for our Own (Crown) was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for studies of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity. Information about the 15 shortlisted books, as well as the winners of each of the three prizes, is available here.