Award-winning memoirs

The Plutarch Award

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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Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship Deadline February 15

February 7th, 2025

The deadline to apply for the Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship in Biography is Saturday, February 15, 2025. The fellowship, endowed by Kitty Kelley, founding member of BIO and long-time advocate for biography and biographers, provides $25,000 to a doctoral student writing a dissertation in English focused on another person’s life or the lives of two or more individuals. The winner of the scholarship will be announced no later than May 1, 2025. The… Read More »

BIO partners with Troy University to Sponsor National Conference on Black Biography

January 21st, 2025

BIO will host the first major national conference on Black biography in over 40 years. Telling the Stories of Black Lives through Biography will be co-sponsored by Troy University-Montgomery, Alabama, and will take place on March 21-22, 2025. The conference will feature a full day of speakers, panel discussions, receptions, and other activities. Telling the Stories of Black Lives through Biograph

Pulitzer Prize

Awards for American journalism and arts

Award

The Pulitzer Prizes[1] ([2]) are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.[3]

Prizes in 2024 were awarded in these categories, with three finalists named for each:[4]

  • Audio Reporting
  • Biography
  • Breaking News Reporting
  • Breaking News Photography
  • Commentary
  • Criticism
  • Drama
  • Editorial Writing
  • Explanatory Reporting
  • Feature Photography
  • Feature Writing
  • Fiction
  • General Nonfiction
  • History
  • Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
  • International Reporting
  • Investigative Reporting
  • Local Reporting
  • Memoir or Autobiography
  • Music
  • National Reporting
  • Poetry
  • Public Service

Each winner receives a certificate and $15,000 in cash,[5] except in the Public Service category, where a gold medal is awarded.[6][7]

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