Biographers International Organization has a worldwide membership of biographers. We also welcome those working on documentaries and biographies for young adults or children. Whether you're a …
Named for Frances (“Frank”) Anne Rollin Whipper, one of America’s first recorded African American biographers, BIO’s Rollin Fellowship seeks to help remediate the disproportionate reflection …
Biographers International Organization (BIO) aims to promote the art and craft of biography, cultivate a diverse community of biographers, encourage public interest in biography, and provide educational …
As biographers, we could adopt this method by exploring the contradictory details of our subjects’ lives and times in all their messy individuality. The point is to look at differences all the way down, not to …
All biographers know how intimidating it can be to build a reading resource, which includes networking, cross-referencing, managing a rapidly growing file of material, remembering to document every …
The 2025 Plutarch Award longlist has been decided. This year’s award committee consists of BIO members Ruth Franklin (chair), Vanda Krefft, Lance Richardson, David Maraniss, and Lisa Napoli. …
Biographers International Organization (BIO) invites applications for its 2026 fellowships and prizes, which support and celebrate the craft of biography at every stage—from dissertation …
Those eight biographers who met in 1986 were on the cusp of what would become an explosion of Black biographies, memoirs and autobiographies. They knew and we know that those stories were always …
Our time-honored magazine, The Biographer’s Craft, features interviews with biographers and articles about biography, while The Insider brings you a monthly roundup of news, notes and events in the …
The New York Times: Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.