Three BIO members have new biographies out in April: 

• Gayle F. Wald, This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement (University of Chicago Press)
• Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General (University of Massachusetts Press)
• Wayne Soini and Robert Fitzgibbon, Murder in Rockport, Massachusetts: Terror in a Small Town (The History Press)

The latest episodes of the BIO Podcast are as follows:

• March 21: James McGrath Morris, BIO’s former president, chats about the future of BIO with Jennifer Skoog. 
• March 28: Linda Leavell and Natalie Dykstra discuss the upcoming annual BIO conference with Jennifer Skoog. 
• April 4: Heather Clark and Stephen Ennis talk with Jennifer Skoog about the various awards BIO offers biographers. 
• April 11: Carol Sklenicka and Yepoka Yeebo talk with Jennifer Skoog about BIO’s Plutarch Award for Biography, the organization’s annual recognition of the year’s best biography, as determined by a committee of five distinguished biographers from nominations by BIO members and publishers.

Natalie Dykstra was honored with the 2024 Marfield Prize for outstanding writing about the arts for her book Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner (Mariner Books, 2024). Read more.

In February, David Levering Lewis released The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958 (Penguin Press), a narrative history, family chronicle, and personal memoir.

Eugene Meyer penned a remembrance of his friend, John Feinstein, the best-selling sportswriter, author, and biographer, for the Washington Independent Review of Books. Read it here. 

In March, the Guides Association of New York City (GANYC) awarded Eric K. Washington its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual gala. Read more.