Several BIO members have new books out this month:  

• Stephen Dando-Collins, Caesar Versus Pompey: Determining Rome’s Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder (Turner) 
• Doris Kearns Goodwin,  An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (Simon & Schuster) 
• Susan Page, The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Simon & Schuster) 
• Bridget Quinn, Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (Chronicle Books) 
• Carl Rollyson, Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero (BearManor Media) 
• Jared Stearns, Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers (Headpress) 

Several BIO members have received new book contracts: 

• Nona Footz sold The Hidden Heiress (Alice Delamar) to Grand Central. The agent was Rick Richter at Aevitas Creative Management. 
• Ramin Ganeshram sold Stirring Liberty: How George Washington’s Enslaved Chef Transformed American Cuisine and Secretly Cooked His Way to Freedom (Hercules Posey) to 37 Ink. Jane von Mehren at Aevitas Creative Management was the agent.
• Beverly Gage sold All American (a Ronald Reagan biography) to Simon & Schuster. The agent was Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency. 
• Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos sold Revolutionary Women (a group biography of Eliza Hamilton, Theodosia Prevost Burr, Martha Washington, Peggy Shippen Arnold, and more) to Hanover Square Press. The agent was Iris Blasi at Arc Literary Management. 
• Paula Tarnapol Whitacre sold Alexandria on Edge: Civil War, Reconstruction, and Remembrance on the Banks of the Potomac to Georgetown University Press. 

The April episodes of the BIO Podcast are as follows: 

• April 5, Jack Kelly, author of God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man (St. Martin’s Press, 2023), interviewed by John A. Farrell. 
• April 12, Danny Fingeroth, author of Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin (Chicago Review Press, 2023), interviewed by Lisa Napoli. 
• April 19, Larry Rohter, author of Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023), interviewed by Kevin McGruder.  
• April 26, Cynthia Carr, author of Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), interviewed by Jennifer Skoog.  

Several BIO members have upcoming events:  

Sara Fitzgerald will be speaking about her forthcoming biography, The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime (Rowman & Littlefield, September 2024), on panels at the annual Washington Writers Conference on May 4 in Bethesda, MD, and at the annual meeting of the American Literature Association in Chicago on May 24.  

Eric K. Washington will be featured on a panel at the New York Public Library’s Biography Open House alongside Susannah Cahalan, focused on the symbiotic relationship between biographers and research libraries. The evening is dedicated to biographers and individuals interested in biography research.  The event takes place on Wednesday, May 15 (the eve of the BIO Conference), from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Room 216.  

Additionally:   

Kate Buford is the executive producer for a History Channel made-for-TV documentary on Jim Thorpe, the subject of her biography Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe (Knopf, 2010). Chris Eyre, the Native American filmmaker (Smoke Signals), is the director. Additionally, as the author of Burt Lancaster: An American Life (Knopf, 2000), she is working on a documentary about The Swimmer (1968), based on the John Cheever short story. It’s being directed by Brian Morrow and Amy Scott (Hal). 

Vincent DiGirolamo has been elected a fellow of the New York Academy of History and was inducted at a gala dinner at the Cosmopolitan Club on April 11. 

Tanisha C. Ford won the 2024 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography for Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad). 

Will Hermes spoke at the CUNY Graduate Center on March 13 about his biography Lou Reed: The King of New York (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). He was interviewed by Amanda Petrusich. A recording is available here. 

Arthur Hoyle reviewed Emily Raboteau’s memoir, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse” (Henry Holt and Co., 2024) for the New York Journal of Books. Read it here.  

Kitty Kelley reviewed Doris Kearns Goodwin’s An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (Simon & Schuster, 2024) for the Washington Independent Review of Books. Read it here. 

Louise (Lucy) W. Knight was the guest author for the March meeting of the book club of the Cliff Dwellers, a club in Chicago for those interested in the arts. They discussed her book, Jane Addams: Spirit in Action (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010). (She received an unexpected benefit: a free three-month membership.)  

Andrew Lownie co-hosts The Scandal Mongers Podcast, a weekly historical show that has featured Kitty Kelly, Andrew Morton, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Gerald Posner, Clive Irving, and such biographical subjects as Agatha Christie, John Le Carre, Princess Margaret, Robert Maxwell, Robert Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Oscar Wilde. Lownie says, “A third of our listeners are in the US, a third in Australia, and a third in Europe.” It can be found on YouTube. 

Judith L. Pearson won a 2024 Florida Book Award, the Bronze Award for General Nonfiction, for her biography Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker (Mayo Clinic Press). 

Mike Rezendes was named a Leon Levy Center Fellow for 2024–2025. He is at work on The People’s Voice: Jimmy Breslin and His Rousing Fight for Everyday People, to be published by Simon & Schuster.  

Susan Wilson has completed several media spots related to her biography Women and Children First: The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M.D. (McFarland, 2023). These include appearances on WBUR’s Radio Boston and WCVB-TV Channel 5’s Chronicle. She also held an event at the State Library of Massachusetts on March 6. A recording is available here.