Welcome! Each week, we post fascinating discussions with biographers from around the country and the world.
If you get your podcasts via iTunes, you can also subscribe here.
If you are a member of BIO and would like to talk about your recently released biography, please contact: lisa@lisanapoli.com
February 7th, 2019
BIO co-founder James McGrath Morris, a writer, a teacher, and a mentor to other biographers, is the winner of the 10th annual BIO Award. BIO bestows this honor on a […]
August 11th, 2018
Alison Owings won the Biography Fellowship awarded annually by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, held at the University of North Texas. The fellowship is co-sponsored by BIO and BIO co-founder […]
June 14th, 2017
By James McGrath Morris This year the Pulitzer Prize for “a distinguished and appropriately documented biography or autobiography by an American author” was awarded to an author who wrote neither […]
May 16th, 2015
Bestselling biographer Kitty Kelley—a founding BIO member who serves on the board— will appear with biographers James McGrath Morris and Linda Lear at the conference in Washington, DC. Their panel, […]
June 15th, 2014
Linda Leavell’s Holding on Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) won the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2013. The winner and […]