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Program Biographers International Conference, May 17-19, New York MAY 17-19, 2019 BIOGRAPHER$1 ~ INTERNATIONAL. Hl, CONFERENCE 1\IEW YORK CIT'lf 1 -'o.. ;., - . " ' BIOCRA 'IIER~ INTIRNAIIONAL URtjANI/AJION ,:. :~ ..•. ... ..•. .... ........ .._ . ' . ,. ...... ..... .. •·.•·· .. .. .•• .._ • . •. .•.. • • .• . ... .............. .. t . .......• •.•• . ,._ .. .•..•.. •.. .. •. ....... •..•.... .•.. ........ THE 2019 PLUTARCH AWARD The 2019 BIO Award Recipient:. Biographers International Organization is proud to present the Plutarch James McGrath Morris ,_ Award for the best biography of 2018, as chosen by our members. James McGrath Morris first fell in love with biography as a child reading newspaper obituaries. In fact, his steady <liet of them be­ Congratulations to the ten nominees: carne an important part of his education in history. In 2005, after a career as a journalist, an editor, a book publisher, and a school­ teacher, Morris began writing hooks full-time. Among his works are ]ai/house journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars; The Rose Man of Sing Sing.· A True Tale of Lift, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism; Pulitzer: A Lift in Polities, Prin~ and Power; Eye on the Struggle: Ethe! Payne, The First Lady of the Black Press, which was awarded the Benjamin Hooks National Book Prize for the best work in civil rights "? , ".:-r--.: >·(..'._ ,r.,. history in 2015; and The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War. He is also the author of two Kindle Singles, The Radio Operator and Murder by Revolution. AFTER EMILY ·v"' In 2016, he taught literary journalism at Texas A&M, and he has conducted writing workshops at various . , T•o Rcnurbbk.\l:'omcn. _ , ./, ~nd1hcLcgxyof­ colleges, universities, and conferences. He is the progenitor of the idea for BIO and was among the found­ ,\in,:nça',:Grl:..1t<:s1 Poc-1 . ers as well as a past president. Morris is currently working on a biography of Tony Hillerman, the late au­ ~' thor of groundbreaking mysteries set in the Navajo Nation. He makes his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. JULIE DOBRO\Y1 _.,, BIO Officers Irwin Gellman Ruth Franklin Susan Quinn ~ Annette Gordon-Reed Nigel Hamilton Will Swift ~: Cathy Curtis, President .... ....-..,.. Js ... s,..:e..- , Deirdre David, Michael Holroyd Marc Leepson Amanda Vaill __,. ;,;,.., ,.,, .,. r _..._., ,,_.,.;...,,,...- ,:;, f!",_ .,,...,, • Vice President Eric Lax Pamela Newkirk Marc Leepson, David Levering Lewis Karin Roffman Caro Fellowship Treasurer Andrew Lownie Justin Spring Committee THE IMPRDB4BLE Dean King, Secretary Megan Marshall Deirdre David, Chair WENDELL John Matteson Conference Site Caroline Fraser Board of Directors Alice Mayhew Committee Marc Leepson WILLKIE Kai Bird Jon Meacham Deirdre David, Chair 1' 11 1; RIJS J"l ESSM,\ N WII O S,\\'Eh Deirdre David T II I; IIIW lJ ll l,ICA~ 1•,rnn ,\J\ 0 11 1S ( 0 UN 1'11 \'. Marion Meade Patricia Auspos Coaching Organizer John A. Farrell Andrew Morton Barbara Fisher Cathy Curtis Carla Kaplan Joanny Moulin John Richetti Kitty Kelley Arnold Rampersad Justin Spring Membership Sarah Kilborne Hans Renders Committee C Louise (Lucy) W. Knight Stacy Schiff BIO Award Committee Kitty Kelley, Chair ~ Linda Leavell Martin J. Sherwin Cathy Curtis, Chair .c:"' Heath Lee Deirdre David C Gayfryd Steinberg Publicity Committee <"' Anne Boyd Rioux T.J. Stiles Linda Leavell Billy Tooma, Co-Chair s Justin Spring Jean Strouse Carl Rollyson Steve Weinberg, -a; Billy Tooma Will Swift Co-Chair QJ Will Swift .... Mariene Trestman i'.:; William Taubman Steve Weinberg Development cl.... Sonja Williams Terry Teachout !") C\J Ike Williams Rowley Prize Committee ~ Advisory Council Deirdre David, Co-Chair QJ Committee "":J Debby Applegate, Chair Will Swift, Co-Chair C Conference Program Carla Kaplan, Chair \!; James Atlas Committee Sarah Kilborne "'( Taylor Branch Program Editor -E Linda Leavell, Co-Chair Dean King lJ) Douglas Brinkley Greg Daugherty i..: Anne Boyd Rioux, \!; Robert Caro Co-Chair Plutarch Award 0 Ron Chernow Art Direction V Kai Bird .... Committee Fearless Future :J Tim Duggan Kate Buford Megan Marshall, Chair 0 Amanda Foreman C Greg Daugherty Peniel E. Joseph 0 ~io:::,P.A~ ÛRGAN_ I_U._T_IÖ_N________ _ Plenary Session Panels-Concourse Level of the Graduate Center ~ David Remnick, Stacy Schift, and Judith Thurman in conversation BASICS conference papers, and walking tours, and about whom she is always eager to answer questions. 8:15-9:15AM LOCATION PROSHANSKY AUDITORIUM Adventures in the Archives 9:30-10:30AM David Remnick has been the edi­ American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was named a CRAFT tor of The New Yorker since 1998. Library Lion of the New York Public Library. Schiff is at A nuts-and-bolts look at the joys and perils of archi­ The Art, Craft, and Market for His hooks include the Pulitzer work on a biography of Samuel Adams, to be published by val research. Topics to be addressed include plan­ Young Readers' Biographies Prize-winning Lenin's Tomb: The Little, Brown. ning research trips for maximum efficiency, building 9:30-10:30AM Last Days of the Soviet Empire; productive relationships with archivists and librar­ King of the World: Muhammad Ali Judith Thurman has been a staff ians, do's and don'ts of hiring research assistants, and A senior editor and three award-winning authors and the Rise of an American Hero; writer at The New Yorkersince 2000 share their knowledge of writing and editing biogra­ and The Bridge, a biography of and a contributor since 1987, spe­ using technology in the archival setting and on your Barack Obama. cializing in cultural criticism. She home computer. phies for young readers-from picture books and ju­ has written about Paleolithic cave veniles, to young adults. It is an opportunity to under­ Stacy Schift won the Pulitzer art; artisanal tofu in Japan; hy­ Moderator stand the similarities and differences between writing Prize in 2000 for Véra (Mrs. perpolyglots- people who speak for adults and younger readers (ages 4 to 18), regard­ Journalist and historian Marc Leepson is the author of Vladimir Nabokov). She is the au­ more than eleven languages; and ing craft elements such as subject choice, a slice-of-life thor as well of Saint-Exupéry, a about literature, film, photogra­ nine hooks. That includes SavingMonticello, Flag·AnAmerican vs. cradle-to-grave life story, archival research, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, phy, translation, and performance Biography, and three biographies of humans: Lafayette: creating a narrative that engages the reader. and A Great Improvisation: Frank/in, art. From the short sketch of a hijabi designer in Brooklyn, Idealist General (2011), What So Proudly We Hailed· Francis France, and the Birth of America, to the long profile of a kimono master in Kyoto, and a re­ Scott Key, A Lift (2014), and Ballad of the Green Beret: The Lift awarded the George Washington portage on the career of Yves Saint Laurent (a piece cho­ and Wars ofArmy Sgt. Barry Sadler (2017). He has written for Moderator many magazines, newspapers, and reference hooks, includ­ Book Prize and the Ambassador sen for the "Best American Essays of 2003"), Thurman has Ray Anthony Shepard's debut young adult biography, ing the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Dictionary of Virginia Book Award. Her Cleopatra: A explored fashion as a cultural phenomenon. She is the au­ Now or Never! 54th Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery, Biography. He was elected to BIO's board of directors in 2013 Lift has been translated into 30 languages and won the thor of !sak Dinesen: The Lift ofa Storyteller, which won the received star reviews from School Library Connection and and serves as the organization's treasurer. His website is PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. David National Book Award for nonfiction in 1983 and was the Kirkus, was listed by the New York Public Library as one of www.marcleepson.com. McCullough deemed Schiff's most recent book, The Witches: basis for Sydney Pollack's Oscar-winning film Out ofAfrica ; the Best Books of the Year for Teens, and named the Carter Salem 1692, "brilliant from start to finish ." Like Cleopatra, it Secrets of the Flesh: A Lift of Colette, which won the LosAngeles G. Woodson Honor Book by the National Council of Social was a No. 1 best seller. Times and Salon Book Awards for Biography in 1999; and Panelists Studies. Junior Library Guild and Scholastic Book Fairs se­ Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties ofDesire , a collect ion of her New Ellen F. Brown is a lawyer and an award-winning free­ lected Now or Never! for their subscribers. Praised for her meticulous scholarship and her witty Yorker essays. style, Schiff has contributed frequently to the New York lance writer whose work has appeared in many print and Margaret Times op-ed page and the New York Times Book Review, as Thurman's honors include the Harold D. Vursell Memorial online publications. She co-authored the book Panelists Mitchell's Gone W ith the Wind· A Bestseller's Odyssey /rom well as to many national publications. She has received fel­ Award for prose style from the American Academy of Tonya Bolden, author, co-author, or editor of more than Atlanta to Hollywood and is now working on a book about lowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Arts and Letters; the Rungstedlund Prize from the Royal forty hooks, is a recipient of the Children's Book Guild literary estates. Brown holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction writ­ Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Danish Academy; and the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize, from of Washington, D.C.'s Nonfiction Award for her body of ..: ing and also has worked as a rare book and manuscript Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. The Bard College, for the life's work of a woman writer. She is a work. That work includes the Coretta Scott King Honor ~ appraiser/dealer.
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