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Announcing a New BIO Event—Biography Lab 2023: An Online Forum on Craft

Biography Lab 2023: An Online Forum on Craft is a one-day, online conference that will take place on Saturday, January 21, 2023. BIO’s Board of Directors created this event, which […]

Hermione Lee Wins 2020 BIO Award

By Justin Spring Dame Hermione Lee, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, is the winner of the 11th annual BIO Award, a prize bestowed yearly by the Biographers […]

Biography Beyond Borders Brings Together US and European Biographers

On November 4-5, BIO and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing co-sponsored Biography Beyond Borders, a colloquium on American and European biography. The weekend in Oxford and London featured 29 distinguished biographers […]

BIO Announces Panelists for Biography Beyond Borders

Biography Beyond Borders, a colloquium on American and European biography, will feature 29 distinguished biographers from across the United States and Europe. In alphabetical order, they are: James Atlas, Betty […]

BIO Sponsors Biography Beyond Borders Colloquium in Oxford

In collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Oxford, housed at Wolfson College and directed by Professor Dame Hermione Lee, Biography International Organization (BIO) is hosting Biography Beyond Borders, […]

Lee’s Biography of Penelope Fitzgerald Wins Plutarch Award

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee won the Plutarch Award for best biography of 2014, as selected by members of Biographers International Organization. The winning book was announced at the […]