Alec Nevala-Lee received a book contract for his biography of Luis W. Alvarez, The Man Who Solved Problems. The book will be published by W. W. Norton & Company. David Halpern at The Robbins Office was the agent.

Shelley Puhak’s biography, The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World (Bloomsbury Publishing), is due out in paperback later this month.

The following is a list of the April episodes of BIO Podcast:

April 7: Andrew Nagorski, author of Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2022), interviewed by Kitty Kelley.

April 14: Helen Rappaport, author of In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Icon and Humanitarian (Pegasus Books, 2022), interviewed by Jennifer Skoog.

April 21: An excerpt of a conversation between Andrew Meier, author of Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty (Random House, 2022), and Kai Bird, at the Leon Levy Center for Biography.

April 28: RJ Smith, author of Chuck Berry: An American Life (Random House, 2022), interviewed by Kevin McGruder.

Additionally:

Debby Applegate won the 2023 Guides Association of New York City Award for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing (Nonfiction) for Madam: A Biography of Polly Adler (Doubleday, 2022).

Beverly Gage won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Viking).

Arthur Hoyle reviewed Stevan M. Weine’s Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness (Fordham University Press, March 2023) for the New York Journal of Books. You can read the review here.

Linda Leavell was a guest of The Rosenbach Podcast, which is produced by the Rosenbach Museum & Library. Leavell’s episode is titled “Idiosyncracy and Technique: A Conversation with Linda Leavell about the Gender, Sexuality, and Celebrity of Marianne Moore, One of America’s Best-Loved Poets.” You can listen to the episode here.   

Diana P. Parsell will give a book talk for Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington’s Cherry Trees (Oxford University Press) at the Mary Riley Styles Public Library, in Falls Church, Virginia, on April 15 at 1:00 p.m. Register here.

Raquel Ramsey provided a blurb for the cover of The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Miller Watkins: A Pioneering Philanthropist by Mary Dresser Burchill and Norma Decker Hoagland (University Press of Kansas).

David O. Stewart released a historical novel, The Burning Land, with Knox Press.