Seven BIO members have new biographies out in October:

• Steven C. Bowie, Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams (University Press of Mississippi)
• Lance Richardson, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (Pantheon)
• Andrea Friederici Ross, Sisters of Influence: A Biography of Zina, Amy, and Rose Fay (Southern Illinois University Press)
• Steven C. Smith, Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema (Oxford University Press)
• David Tuch, The Wireless Operator: The Untold Story of the British Sailor Who Invented the Modern Drug Trade (Icon Books)
• Amanda Vaill, Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Francesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (Scribner)

The latest episodes of BIO Podcast:

• Sept. 19: Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me is the award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and author Mimi Pond’s latest book. She discusses it with Jenny Skoog.
• Sept. 26: Alec Nevala-Lee’s latest book, Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs, explores the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis W. Alvarez. He talks with Sonja Williams about it.
• Oct. 3: Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour’s Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness, is former broadcast journalist and author Alison Owing’s newest book. Jenny Skoog interviewed her.
• Oct. 10: Dan Nadel’s Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, published in April, examines the life of Robert Crumb, one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. Brian Jay Jones talks with Nadel about it.
• Oct. 17: High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul (Dey Street Books, 2024) is the latest offering by critically acclaimed author Marcus J. Moore. BIO member Kevin McGruder chats with Moore about the book and how his work explores the intersections of music, race, and culture.

Join biographer Jean Strouse for The Art of Discovery: Writing Biography at the Library on Friday, November 14, from 2:00-3:00 PM ET at the New York Public Library, presented in partnership with BIO. In conversation with Mia Bruner, NYPL reference librarian, Strouse will offer an inside look at the creative process and investigative craft behind her work, from navigating archives to uncovering unexpected sources. Free; registration required. 

Nicholas Boggs speaks with New York Times columnist John McWhorter about his biography of James Baldwin at the Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City on Wednesday, November 19. More information. 

Greg Daugherty interviewed fellow BIO member David O. Stewart for a Smithsonian magazine article on “Twelve Failed Constitutional Amendments That Could Have Reshaped American History.” Stewart’s books include The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (Simon & Schuster, 2007).

Lance Richardson discusses his new biography of novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, Zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent Peter Matthiessen with Philip Gourevitch on Thursday, October 23, at the Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City. More information. 

Amanda Vaill discusses her new biography of the Schuyler Sisters with fellow BIO member Megan Marshall at the Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City on Wednesday, November 12. More information.