Are you a reader of biographies? Then check out the longlist for the 2023 Plutarch Award. This is the 10th annual award given by the Biographers International Organization (BIO). "Named after the famous ancient Greek biographer, the Plutarch is awarded to the best biography of the year by a committee of five distinguished biographers from nominations received by BIO members and publishers."
Below is the longlist.
- Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
- John A. Farrell, Ted Kennedy: A Life [ebook]
- Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World
- Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century [ebook]
- Jennifer Homans, Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
- Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle [ebook]
- Jane Ridley, George V: Never a Dull Moment
- Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
- Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams [ebook]
- Miranda Seymour, I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
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