BIO is well represented in the upcoming season, with members releasing more than a dozen books. Out in September are Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson; To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov; Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York by John Oller; Warrior: Audrey Hepburn by Robert Matzen; and All In: The Winningest Field Hockey Coach in America Sue Butz-Stavin by Heidi Bright Butler.

October is the peak month for members’ books, with eight due out:

• H.G. Wells: Changing the World by 2020 BIO Award-winner Claire Tomalin
• Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride
• A Mighty Force: Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War for Public Health by Marcia Biederman
• Tony Hillerman: A Life by 2019 BIO Award-winner James McGrath Morris
• A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Matteo Bortolini
• Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater by Alexis Greene
• Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz
• Richard Congreve: Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire by Matthew Wilson (Palgrave Macmillan)

Out in November is A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by former BIO president Cathy Curtis; Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam by Ray E. Boomhower; and Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Pulitzer Prize-winner and BIO Advisory Council chair Debby Applegate. December sees the release of Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell by BIO Board member Steve Paul and Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours coedited by Julian E. Zelizer (with Paul Starr). The last known member release for the upcoming season is out in January: Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 by Irwin F. Gellman