Leadership Membership Categories Board Nigel Hamilton, President Charles J. Shields, Vice President Carol DeBoer-Langworthy Active Membership Gayle Feldman Anyone who has published a Anne Heller biography or is currently Kitty Kelley engaged in writing, filming, Andrew Lownie recording, or otherwise Paul Maher Jr. Hans Renders producing a biography. Carl Rollyson (Annual dues $45-150) Will Swift Associate Membership Steve Weinberg Jean Strouse, winner of the BIO Anyone interested in the Award, addressing the 2010 Advisory Council craft and art of biography. conference , Chair (Annual dues $30) Deirdre Bair Affiliate Membership Corporations, companies, At last! Doris Kearns Goodwin Joan Hedrick and organizations wishing to Michael Holroyd provide financial support to BIO. (Annual dues $250) A Writers’ Eric Lax Group William S. McFeely Marion Meade Compleat Dedicated to Andrew Morton Martin J. Sherwin Biographer the Needs of T.J. Stiles Conference Washington, DC Terry Teachout Biographers Brenda Wineapple May 21, 2011

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Biographers International Organization Bio • A subscription to the monthly electronic We want to get to know you. To share ideas with you, In fact, there has probably been no more remarkable newsletter, The invite you to social events, provide you with access to assemblage of biographers ever before than at our first Biographer’s Craft; “It’s expertise available nowhere else, and toast your successes conference. Among the attendees and panelists was Debby as a biographer. Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: the first thing I open The cost? As low as $45 ($30 for an associate The Biography of (Pulitzer Prize); when I see it in my membership.) Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (Pulitzer inbox,” says writer Biographers International Organization (BIO) is the first- Prize and National Book Award); T. J. Stiles, The First Robin Gerber. ever international organization that represents the Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer • A 10 percent discount on professional interests of biographers: those who’ve already Prize); Kitty Kelley, Oprah; and Kenneth Silverman, The published, and those working on biographies - in every Life and Times of Cotton Mather (Pulitzer Prize). This the Compleat Biographer medium, from print to film. year’s president of BIO, incidentally, is Nigel Hamilton, conference. The idea for BIO grew from the success of a monthly author of the just released American Caesars: Lives of • A free personal webpage newsletter, the Biographer’s Craft begun in 2006, that Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. to help you recognized that biographers generally work without the If it sounds like we’re boasting a bit, we are! BIO is off • Connect with other support of university-level course or professional to a fast start and we want you aboard for the excitement. organizations devoted to the art and craft of biography. The opportunities BIO provides to its members include biographers in the We held our first-ever, annual one-day conference this many benefits listed on the panel to the right. members-only pages year—the Compleat Biographer Conference—at the To become a member of BIO, go to our website: • Assistance in finding or University of Massachusetts, Boston on May 15, 2010, www.biographersinternational.org There you can also creating a local BIO featuring ten workshops, ranging from ‘Marketing Your download a copy of the Compleat Biographer Conference group Biography’ to ‘Dealing With the Family.’ In addition, 2010 program and view videos of presentations to get an attendees were invited to pitch their latest proposals to idea of what’s in store for the 2011 conference in • Access to members-only literary agents during ‘speed dating’ sessions. And our first Washington, DC. webcasts and phone BIO award for lifetime contribution to biography went to seminars Jean Strouse, whose Alice James: A Biography won a Join now and begin enjoying the benefits and • Participation in Agents and whose Morgan: American Financier friendships to be had from belonging to an Read & Speed Dating won acclaim for its realistic portrayal of the man and its international organization concerned exclusively with lucid explanation of his financial work. the art and craft of biography.

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