Two BIO members have new paperback editions out this month:

• William R. Cross, Winslow Homer: American Passage (Picador)
• J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie: Public, Private, Secret (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Two BIO members have landed new book deals:

• Lynne Bermont, Dina in the Red Dress (Dina Vierny), sold to W. W. Norton & Company by Brettne Bloom at The Book Group
• Patti Hartigan, Good Trouble in Mind: The Life of Alice Childress, sold to the University of California Press by Alice Martell at The Martell Agency

Ann-Marie Priest won the Magarey Medal for Biography for My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood (La Trobe University Press, 2022).

Note: The BIO Podcast is on summer break; episode releases will resume in September.

Additionally:

Jonathan Eig wrote “Biographers Owe their Readers the Full Truth” for The Wall Street Journal. You can read the piece here.

Tanisha C. Ford, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Tamara Payne, and Eric K. Washington appeared on a panel about “Black Biographies” for the Schomburg Center Literary Festival on June 15. You can watch a recording of the panel here.

Marlene Trestman, author of Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans (LSU Press, 2023), is creating a comprehensive online repository of alumni of the Home, and has completed 90 profiles so far. You can view them on her website here.

Ethelene Whitmire was interviewed by The New York Times for the article, “New York’s First Black Librarians Changed the Way We Read.” Recent scholarship is uncovering the role of the women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance, when they built collections and, just as important, communities of writers and readers. You can read the article here.