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The Plutarch Award

Congratulations to Yepoka Yeebo, winner of the 2024 Plutarch Award for Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World.

Eligibility:

Biographies published in English (including in translation) during the current calendar year are eligible for nomination.
Nominated biographies must be by an author or group of authors about another figure or figures.
Nominated biographies may include those about two or more people, as well as those written in narrative forms other than cradle-to-grave format.
Autobiographies, memoirs, works of fiction, self-published works, and non-print forms of biography are not eligible.
Both publishers and BIO members may nominate books before December first of the current year.

Publishers wishing to nominate biographies should email BIO for instructions.

BIO members may nominate biographies (including their own work) by filling out the nomination form—one form per b

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Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship Deadline February 15

February 7th, 2025

The deadline to apply for the Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship in Biography is Saturday, February 15, 2025. The fellowship, endowed by Kitty Kelley, founding member of BIO and long-time advocate for biography and biographers, provides $25,000 to a doctoral student writing a dissertation in English focused on another person’s life or the lives of two or more individuals. The winner of the scholarship will be announced no later than May 1, 2025. The… Read More »

BIO partners with Troy University to Sponsor National Conference on Black Biography

January 21st, 2025

BIO will host the first major national conference on Black biography in over 40 years. Telling the Stories of Black Lives through Biography will be co-sponsored by Troy University-Montgomery, Alabama, and will take place on March 21-22, 2025. The conference will feature a full day of speakers, panel

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The British Sociological Association

The Auto/Biography Study Group brings tillsammans people interested in the analytical examination of the various kinds of biography and autobiography, the interrelations between biography, autobiography, skrivelse and lives, and the relationship between the differing genres of representing lives. The forward slash in auto/biography denotes the critical interrelationship between the self and the other, the private and public.

The Auto/Biography Study Group fryst vatten a wonderful academic community and we are delighted to welcome you as either an associate or paid member. See the Join Us tab.

We look forward to meeting you soon.

Best wishes
Anne Chappell and Carly Stewart
Convenors

The group was established in 1992 when David Morgan and Liz Stanley convened a conference in January entitled ‘Auto/Biography in Sociology’. This was followed in October the same year when the first 'Auto/Biography' Bulletin for the group was published. In the Bulletin, auto/bi