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The 2018 BIO Award Recipient "r .................................................................................................................................................... ......... ... .. ... ... ..... .... THE 2018 PLUTARCH AWARD The 2018 BIO Award Recipient: Biographers International Organization is proud to present the Plutarch Richard Holmes trn~'l; HJOt :1 -,'..\PH Y Richard Holmes is the author of the prize-winning and best-selling The Age ofWonder, ()F 'l'IIJ-~ Ylï:. \l{ Award for the best biography of 2017, as chosen by you. ·2018 which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Royal Society Prize Congratulations to the ten nominees for the Best Biography of 2017: for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He has written many other books, including Falling Upwards, an uplifting account of the pioneering generation of balloon aeronauts, and the classic Footsteps. lts companion volume, Sidetracks, and ThisLongPursuit (published in 2017) complete this trilogy. Holmes's first biography, Shelley: The Pursuit, won the Somerset Maugham Prize; Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award; Coleridge: Darker Reflections won the Duff Cooper and Heinemann Awards; Dr. johnson & Mr. Savage won the James Tait Black Prize. Holmes holds honorary doctorates from the universities of East Anglia, East London, \l 1-:t; .1~ \1 1 1:~11 .11.1. GORBACHEV and Kingston. He was professor of biographical studies at the University of E~st Hl S L I F E A N O T IM E El izabcth Anglia from 2001 to 2007. An Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, he was BISHOP awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1992. He lives in London and Norfolk with the novelist Rose Tremain. .. n [ JUtS r ""' C, l{.. \ \ 'I' H O \ <: 11 1 H'\ O \\ 810 Officers Ron Chernow Beverly Gray James Atlas, Judge Cathy Curtis, President Tim Duggan Anne C. Heller Stacy Schiff, Judge (Ij ->:: Deirdre David, Amanda Foreman Sarah Kilborne Gayle Feldman '- Vice President Irwin Gellman Dean King Caroline Fraser G"' Marc Leepson, Annette Gordon-Reed Linda Leavell Diana Parsell ~'- .,."' 1, "'::, Treasurer Michael Holroyd Ray Shepard William Souder vi Dean King, Secretary Eric Lax Sonja Williams David Stewart ' - È' David Levering Lewis Mariene Trestman Terese Svoboda ·· mEISl.. ·I~ . 3 _;;; ~ ·, "" _; ~ .8 . ' .. 0 Board of Directors Andrew Lownie Anne Boyd Rioux Richard Zacks •. " ,, ,J .i:: -. Q Kai Bird Megan Marshall Kai Bird, consultant 1 .. (jJ"' Cathy Curtis John Matteson from Leon Levy CoachinR Committee E John A. Farrell Center for Biography Will Swi t, Chair 0 Alice Mayhew :r: Brian Jay Jones Jon Meacham Cathy Curtis -0 '- Carla Kaplan Marion Meade Conference Site Linda Leavell .i::"' .'2 Kitty Kelley Andrew Morton Committee a:: Sarah Kilborne Joanny Moulin Deirdre David, Chair Plutarch Nomination 5 ::, Lucy Knight Arnold Rampersad Barbara Fisher Committee 0 Linda Leavell Stacy Schiff Dona Munker Anne C. Heller, Chair "'0, C: Heath Lee Martin J. Sherwin Carl Rollyson Kate Buford ~ 0 Anne Boyd Rioux T.J. Stiles Amanda Vaill Nassir Ghaemi, M.D. .2 Hampton Sides c:· Jean Strouse Brian Jay Jones ~ Justin Spring William Taubman 810 Award Committee Andrew Lownie ~ Billy Tooma Cathy Curtis, Chair .i:: Terry Teachout Julia Markus C: Mariene Trestman Ike Williams Deirdre David J.W. (Hans) Renders ~"' Sonja Williams Linda Leavell Ray Shepard C: $ Conference Program Carl Rollyson Will Swift, Ex-Officio 0 Will Swift ~ Advisory Council Committee Amanda Vaill ~ Debby Applegate, Chair John A. Farrell, Steve Weinberg i..: (IJ James Atlas :,. Co-Chair Program Editor 0 Kai Bird Rowley Prize Greg Daugherty V Heath Lee, Co-Chair ::,'- Taylor Branch Kate Buford Committee 0 Douglas Brinkley Art Direction C: Cathy Curtis James McGrath 0 Robert Caro Morris, Chair Fearless Future ~k BlOGRAPHERS INT.EJ\NI010NAL OIIGANiZATION - Breakfast Plenary Session Panels-Concourse Level of the Graduate Center Edmund Morris and Sylvia Jukes Morris Explain Why "Dead Is Easier" ISSUES Heath Hardage Lee holds a B.A. with honors in history 8:15-9:15AM wcAnoN. CONCOURSE/ PROSHANSKY AUDITORIUM Writing About the Vietnam War from Davidson College and an M.A. in French language and literature from the University of Virginia. As the 9:30-10:30AM Born and educated in Kenya, Sylvia Jukes Morris was bom 2017 Robert J. Dole Curatoria! Fellow, Lee created a trav­ Edmund Morris emigrated to and educated in England, where Are the rules different when writing about America's eling exhibition, The League of Wives: Vietnam POW MIA the United States in 1968. He now she taught history and English most controversial overseas war? A panel of historians Advocates & Allies, for the Dole lnstitute of Polities. Her first biography, Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause, Jives with his wife and fellow bi­ literature before emigrating to and biographers who have written extensively about ographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris, in America. won the 2015 Colonial Dames of America Book Award the Vietnam War will discuss the challenges and op­ Kent, Connecticut. and a gold medal at the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Her first book, Edith Kermit portunities in researching, writing, and marketing Awards. Lee is currently working on The League of Wives: Morris is the author of The Rise Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady, biographies of politicians, military men and women, A True Story of Survival and Rescue From the Vietnam of Theodore Roosevelt, winner of was published in 1980 to nation­ and others whose lives were shaped by their partici­ Homefront (St. Martin's Press, 2019). the Pulitzer Prize and National wide critica) acclaim. The Christian pation in the war. Veteran biographers and historians Book Award in 1980. In 1985, he Science Monitor said it represent­ detail and compare research techniques, use of inter­ BASICS was appointed President Ronald ed "craftsmanship of the high­ views and oral histories, managing your time in the What Four Top Editors Look Reagan's biographer. Dutch: A est order," and R.W.B. Lewis, in a archives, tracking notes, and other practical aspects of MemoirofRonald Reagan, published in 1999, caused an in­ front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, called for in a Book Proposal ternational stir with its stylistic innovations, such as the it "an endlessly engrossing book, at once of historica! and biography work. 9:30-10:30AM use of multiple narrative voices and running metaphor. human importance." "Dutch never fails to convey the power and mystery of its Moderator Four senior editors from Doubleday, W. W. Norton, subject," remarked the New York Times Book Review. In 1997, Sylvia Morris published the first installment of a St. Martin's Press, and Penguin Random House ex­ Marc Leepson, historian and journalist, is the au­ two-volume biography, Rage far Fame: The Ascent of Clare plore how the current trends in the publishing world thor of nine hooks, including three biographies: Ballad In the fall of 2001, Morris published Theodore Rex, the sec­ Boothe Luce. Gore Vidal described it in the New Yorker as affect them and their colleagues. Giving us personal ond volume of his life of the 26th president. It won the "a model biography... of the sort that only real writers can of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staf/ Sgt. Barry examples, they will share the most common red flags Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and currently write." Karen Heller wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "In Sadler; What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A has three-quarters of a million copies in print. "As a liter­ this marvelous volume, Sylvia Jukes Morris has not just Life; and Lafayette: Idealist Genera/. He is the long-time se­ and the most enticing elements in book proposals ary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be amassed information, but distilled it. The result is a por­ nior writer, arts editor, and columnist for the VVA Veteran, they have reviewed. They will also talk about what a surpassed," the Times Literary Supplement declared. His trait that is powerful and resonant." A sequel, Price ofFame: the magazine published by Vietnam Veterans of America. book needs to obtain the approval of their market­ subsequent book, Beethoven: The Un iversa/ Composer, was The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce, carne out in 2015. A member of BIO's Board of Directors, and the organiza­ ing departments. hailed by the Washington Post as a "deft, deeply satisfy­ tion's treasurer, he was drafted into the Army and served ing" musical biography, distinguished by "vast reserves "Both hooks are models of the biographer's art-me­ a 1967-68 tour of duty in the Vietnam War. He was a staff Moderator of feeling, fancy and intelligence." ticulously researched, sophisticated, fair-minded and writer at Congressional Quarterly in Washington from 1974 compulsively readable," Edward Kosner wrote in the to 1986. Will Swift, Ph.D., writes on American leaders and In November 2010, a chorus of critica) praise greeted Wal/ Street Journal. Columbia/Sony Pictures is currently British royalty. He is the author of The Roosevelts and the the publication of Co/one/ Roosevelt, the final volume adapting the volumes into a miniseries, with Gwyneth Panelists Royals, The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, and Pat of Morris's Roosevelt trilogy. He is now writing a life of Paltrow slated to star in the title role. and Dick: The Nixons, A Portrait of a Marriage. Swift has Kai Bird is the executive director and Distinguished Thomas Edison. been a featured speaker at the Richard Nixon, Franklin Lecturer of CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy Libraries, and he has for Biography. He co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin the appeared on the television programs Morning Joe, Fox Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: News, and The Cycle. He is a co-founder of Biographers Are you not? The Triumph and Tragedy of].
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