The following BIO members have new books out this month:

• Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of California Press)
• David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life (Simon & Schuster)
• Martin Klotz, Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon (Westholme Publishing)
• Eve LaPlante, Who Needs a Statue? (Tilbury House Publishers)
• Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob, Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Several BIO members also have new paperback editions out:

• Danny Fingeroth, Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin (Chicago Review Press)
• Tanisha C. Ford, Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad)
• Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos, The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd (Hanover Square Press)
• Will Hermes, Lou Reed: The King of New York (Picador)

Two BIO members have new book deals:

• Susan Bailey sold The Littlest Woman: The Life and Legacy of Lizzie Alcott, The Real Beth March to Mercer University Press
• Laurence Leamer sold JFK’s Women to Putnam. David Halpern at David Halpern Literary Management was the agent.

Rachel L. Swarns won an American Book Award for The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (Random House).

Ilyon Woo was named to the shortlist for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Simon & Schuster).

The October episodes of the BIO Podcast are as follows:

• Oct. 4, Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong (Dutton, 2024), interviewed by Jennifer Skoog.
• Oct. 11, Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and The Battle to Save Reconstruction (Knopf, 2023), interviewed by John A. Farrell.
• Oct. 18, Patti Hartigan, author of August Wilson: A Life (Simon & Schuster, 2023), interviewed by Sonja Williams.
• Oct. 25, Benjamin Taylor, author of Chasing Bright Medusas: The Life of Willa Cather (Viking, 2023), interviewed by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina.

Additionally:

Neil Baldwin, author of Edison: Inventing the Century (“a major contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a remarkable era”—Robert A. Caro) is the 2024–2026 External Mentor for the National Parks Service Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey. He is advising Melissa Benbow, whose archival research project will be the first history of the domestic staff at Glenmont, the Edison family mansion, in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey.

Andrew Lownie wrote about Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, for The Daily Mail. Read the piece here.