Three BIO members have new biographies being published this month: Irwin F. Gellman with Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 (Yale University Press); Rosemary Sullivan with The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation (Harper); and Paul Cantor with Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller (Abrams Press).

Hans Renders has edited the new anthology Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography (Brill), which features essays by Nigel Hamilton and Carl Rollyson.

Additionally, two BIO members have biographies out in paperback this month: Janice P. Nimura with The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine (Norton) and Jim Newtown with Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown (Little, Brown and Company).

Rebecca Donner was longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize for All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler (Little, Brown and Company, 2021); Michael N. McGregor has been awarded the 2022 Donald J. Sterling Jr. Senior Research Fellowship in Pacific Northwest History; and the audiobook of Debby Applegate’s Madam (Doubleday, 2021), read by Erin Bennett, won AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award.

Billy Tooma released the first of nine parts of his documentary Ken Forsse: Come Dream With Me Tonight, narrated by Sarah S. Kilborne, on YouTube.

Jon Meacham was announced as the featured speaker of the 2022 Abraham Lincoln Association Birthday Banquet; Heath Lee reviewed Orphans of the Storm for the Washington Independent Review of Books (WIRB); and Kitty Kelley reviewed John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations for the WIRB.

Tamara Payne was interviewed by The Nation, about the exoneration of Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam, and by Amanpour and Company; Cathy Curtis was interviewed by The Daily Beast about Elizabeth Hardwick; Alexis Greene was interviewed about Emily Mann by NJ.com; David O. Stewart was interviewed about George Washington on WYPR (Baltimore Public Radio); Brian Jay Jones completed a two-part interview about George Lucas for Laughing Place (Part 1 & Part 2); Debby Applegate was interviewed about Polly Adler by Carl Rollyson for the Life in Biography podcast; Applegate was also interviewed by Pamela Paul for the New York Times The Book Review podcast; Ray Boomhower was interviewed about Richard Tregaskis for World War II On Deadline; Steve Paul was interviewed by KCUR (Kansas City Public Radio) about Evan S. Connell; and Ray A. Shepard was interviewed on WCVB-TV (Boston) about his book Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge (Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, 2021).

Andrew Lownie’s The Mountbattens (Blink Publishing, 2021) was featured in a New York Times roundup of must-read books on royalty; and Citizen Ashe, a documentary of Arthur Ashe based on interviews conducted by Arnold Rampersad, was called a “satisfying biography of a legend” by Far Out Magazine.