Award-winning memoirs

Congratulations to Yepoka Yeebo, winner of the 2024 Plutarch Award for Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World.

Eligibility:

• Biographies published in English (including in translation) during the current calendar year are eligible for nomination.
• Nominated biographies must be by an author or group of authors about another figure or figures.
• Nominated biographies may include those about two or more people, as well as those written in narrative forms other than cradle-to-grave format.
• Autobiographies, memoirs, works of fiction, self-published works, and non-print forms of biography are not eligible.
• Both publishers and BIO members may nominate books before December first of the current year.

Publishers wishing to nominate biographies should email BIO for instructions.

BIO members may nominate biographies (including their own work) by filling out the nomination form—one form per book, please. There is no limit on the number of books a member may propose.

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