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Program Biographers International Conference, June 6, Washington SIXTH ANNUAL BIOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE JUNE 6, 2015 National Press Club 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. The 2014 Plutarch Award Biographers International Organization is proud to present the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2014, as chosen by you, the world’s only organization of biographers. Congratulations to the ten nominees for the Best Biography of 2014: The 2015 BIO Award Recipient: Taylor Branch Taylor Branch is best known for his best-selling, magisterial trilogy about Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights movement, and America in the 1950s and 1960s. In these three volumes, Branch showed, as he wrote in his introduction, that, “King’s life is the best and most im- portant metaphor for American history in the watershed postwar years.” His vivid portrait of King’s rise to greatness humanizes the man and allows the reader to understand his era by portraying what it was like to live through it. Branch’s three-volume work has been com- pared to Carl Sandburg’s Lincoln and Robert Caro’s multivolume life of Lyndon Johnson. For his first volume, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 (1988), Taylor Branch won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963–1965 (1998) and Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965–1968 (2006)—winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist—completed his monumental fusion of biography and history. Branch is also the author of a novel, The Empire Blues (1981), and was the ghostwriter of John Dean’s memoir, Blind Ambition (1976). He also is well known for his innovative eight-year oral history project with a sitting presi- dent—The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (2009). BIO Officers Douglas Brinkley Anne Heller BIO Award Nomination Brian Jay Jones, Catherine Clinton Joshua Kendall Committee Amanda Foreman Dean King President Will Swift, Chair Doris Kearns Goodwin Linda Leavell Cathy Curtis, Vice Kai Bird Joan Hedrick Heath Hardage Lee President Barbara Burkhardt Michael Holroyd Justin Martin Marc Leepson, John Aloysius Farrell Eric Lax Will Swift Treasurer James McGrath Morris David Levering Lewis Sonja Williams Barbara Burkhardt, Barbara Lehman Smith Secretary John Matteson William S. McFeely Conference Plutarch Nomination Board of Directors Jon Meacham Site Committee Committee Marion Meade Barbara Burkhardt, Lois Banner Chip Bishop Nancy Milford Co-Chair Chip Bishop Cathy Curtis Andrew Morton Robin Rausch, Co-Chair Kate Buford John Aloysius Farrell Martin J. Sherwin Estella Chung Barbara Burkhardt Joshua Kendall T.J. Stiles Jennifer Cockburn Deirdre David Vanda Krefft William Taubman Sara Day Gayle Feldman Andrew Lownie Beverly Gray Terry Teachout Sarah Dorsey Stephen Grant Hans Renders Kitty Kelley Barbara Lehman Smith Joshua Kendall Conference Program Cathryn Keller Marc Leepson Committee Pat McNees Rowley Prize Committee Diana Parsell James McGrath Morris Kate Buford, Co-Chair Gayle Feldman, Chair Amy Schapiro Hans Renders William Souder, Jennifer Cockburn Co-Chair Barbara Lehman Smith William Souder Anne Heller Carol Berkin Paula Tarnapol Whitacre Will Swift Roy Schreiber Barbara Burkhardt Sonja D. Williams Carol Sklenicka Advisory Council Greg Daugherty, Will Swift Debby Applegate, Chair Program Editor Coaching Committee Deirdre David Will Swift, Chair Carl Rollyson, Deirdre Bair Administrator Carol Berkin Ted Geltner Cathy Curtis Beverly Gray Linda Leavell 3 Biographers International Organization Saturday,Breakfast May Plenary 17 | Panels Session and Panelists “AndThe ArtThen and What?”: Craft of Biography: Panelists Douglas Brinkley is a professor CreatingEvan Thomas Suspense and in Biography Douglas JOHN ALOYSIUS FARRELLof has history had a prize-winning at Rice University, career as 8:45–10:00BrinkleyAM in ConversationLOCATION: BALLROOM B a newspaperman, notably best-sellingfor author, and and pres- . 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