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The Plutarch Award, established in 2013, is an annual literary award for bibliographies presented by the Biographers International Organization. It is named in honor of Plutarch, the Greek historian who is credited as the father of biography.

Recipients

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Plutarch Award winners and finalists
Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
2013 Robert Caro The Passage of Power Winner [1]
Deirdre Bair Saul Steinberg: A Biography Nominee [2][3]
Lisa Cohen All We Know: Three Lives Nominee [2][3]
Timothy Egan Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis Nominee [2][3]
Alice Kessler-Harris A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman Nominee [2][3]
David Maraniss Barack Obama: The Story Nominee [2][3]
John Matteson The Lives of Margaret Fuller Nominee [2][3]
Tom Reiss The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Nominee [2][3]
William Souder On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson Nominee [2][3]
Rachel L. Swarns American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama Nominee [2][3]
2014 Linda Leavell Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore Winner [4]
Scott Anderson Lawrence in Arabia Nominee [5]
Marie Arana Bolivar: American Liberator Nominee [5]
A. Scott Berg Wilson Nominee [5]
Ben Bradlee Jr. The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams Nominee [5]
Leo Damrosch Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World Nominee [5]
Lucy Hughes-Hallett Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War Nominee [5]
Brian Jay Jones Jim Henson: The Biography Nominee [5]
Jill Lepore Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Nominee [5]
Ray Monk Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center Nominee [5]
2015 Hermione Lee Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life Winner [6]
Helen Rappaport The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandria Finalist [6]
Nigel Hamilton The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 Finalist [6]
John Lahr Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh Finalist [6]
2016 Rosemary Sullivan Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Winner
Sonia Purnell Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill Nominee [7]
T. J. Stiles Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Nominee [7]
Jay Parini Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal Nominee [7]
Anne Heller Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times Nominee [7]
Emily Bingham Irrepressible: A Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham Nominee [7]
Betty Boyd Caroli Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage Nominee [7]
Irwin F. Gellman The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon 1952-1961 Nominee [7]
Cathy Curtis Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter Nominee [7]
Peter Guralnick Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll Nominee [7]
2017 Ruth Franklin Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life Winner [8]
Frances Wilson Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey Finalist [9]
Volker Ullrich, trans. by Jefferson Chase Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 Finalist [9]
Louisa Thomas Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams Finalist [9]
Larry Tye Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon Nominee [10]
Alex Beam The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship Nominee [10]
Joseph Lelyveld His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt Nominee [10]
Ruth Scurr John Aubrey, My Own Life Nominee [10]
Reiner Stach, trans. by Shelley Frisch Kafka: The Early Years Nominee [10]
Simon Callow Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band Nominee [10]
2018 Caroline Fraser Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Winner
Ron Chernow Grant Nominee [11]
Jonathan Eig Ali: A Life Nominee [11]
John Farrell Richard Nixon: The Life Nominee [11]
Andrzej Franaszek, trans. by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker Milosz: A Biography Nominee [11]
Francine Klagsbrun Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel Nominee [11]
Megan Marshall Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast Nominee [11]
Rosalind Rosenberg Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray Nominee [11]
Victor Sebestyen Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror Nominee [11]
William Taubman Gorbachev: His Life and Times Nominee [11]
2019 David W. Blight Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Winner
Craig Brown Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret Nominee [12]
Julie Dobrow After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet Nominee [12]
Lindsey Hilsum In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin Nominee [12]
Victor Sebestyen Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Nominee [12]
David Levering Lewis The Improbable Wendell Wilkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and Conceived a New World Order Nominee [12]
Patricia O'Toole The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made Nominee [12]
Andrew Roberts Churchill: Walking with Destiny Nominee [12]
Hilary Spurling Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time Nominee [12]
Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Nominee [12]
2020 Sonia Purnell A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II Winner [13][14]
Sidney Blumenthal All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860 Finalist [15]
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America Finalist [15]
Charles King Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Finalist [15]
George Packer Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Finalist [15]
2021 A. N. Wilson The Mystery of Charles Dickens Winner [16][17]
Les Payne and Tamara Payne The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Finalist [18]
Jonathan Alter His Very Best: Jimmy Carter: A Life Finalist [18]
Ted Widmer Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington Finalist [18]
Martha Ackmann These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson Finalist [18]
Steven Heyman The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution Longlist [19]
Hilary Holladay The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography Longlist [19]
David S. Reynolds Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times Longlist [19]
Steven C. Smith Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer Longlist [19]
Volker Ullrich, trans. by Jefferson Chase Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945 Longlist [19]
2022 Frances Wilson Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence Winner [20]
Rebecca Donner All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler Shortlist [21]
Robert Elder Calhoun: American Heretic Shortlist [21]
Fiona Sampson Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Shortlist [21]
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Francis Bacon: Revelations Shortlist [21]
Claude A. Clegg III The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama Longlist [22]
Janice P. Nimura The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Longlist [22]
Matthew Sturgis Oscar Wilde: A Life Longlist [22]
Dorothy Wickenden The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights Longlist [22]
Richard Zenith Pessoa: A Biography Longlist [22]
2023 Jennifer Homans Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century Winner [23][24]
Beverly Gage G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Shortlist [25]
Jon Meacham And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Shortlist [25]
Jane Ridley George V: Never a Dull Moment Shortlist [25]
Katherine Rundell Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne Shortlist [25]
Tomiko Brown-Nagin Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality Longlist [26]
John A. Farrell Ted Kennedy: A Life Longlist [26]
Paul Fisher The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World Longlist [26]
Stacy Schiff The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams Longlist [26]
Miranda Seymour I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys Longlist [26]
2024 Yepoka Yeebo Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World Winner [27][28]
Jonathan Eig King: A Life Shortlist [29]
Howard Fishman To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse Shortlist [29]
Lisa M. Hamilton The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival Shortlist [29]
Prudence Peiffer The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever Shortlist [29]
Sally H. Jacobs Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson Nominee [30]
Larry Rohter Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist Nominee [30]
Barbara D. Savage Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar Nominee [30]
Willard Spiegelman Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt Nominee [30]
Jonny Steinberg Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage Nominee [30]
2025 Max Boot Reagan: His Life and Legend Longlist [31]
Cynthia Carr Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar Longlist [31]
Margalit Fox The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss Longlist [31]
Stephanie Gorton The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America Longlist [31]
David Greenberg John Lewis: A Life, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs for Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Longlist [31]
Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Longlist [31]
Heath Hardage Lee The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Longlist [31]
Adam Shatz The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Longlist [31]
Jackie Wullschläger Monet: The Restless Vision Longlist [31]

References

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  1. ^ "Caro Wins Plutarch Biography Award". Publishers Weekly. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Plutarch Biography Award Held May 18". Publishers Weekly. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Awards: Arab Fiction; Plutarch; Graywolf". Shelf Awareness. 24 April 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  4. ^ "Awards: Plutarch Biography; Griffin Poetry". Shelf Awareness. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Awards: Plutarch; BTBA; Arthur Ellis Crime Novel". Shelf Awareness . 16 April 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  6. ^ a b c d "Awards: Plutarch; Griffin Poetry; SFWA Nebulas". Shelf Awareness . 8 June 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Awards: Plutarch Nominees". Shelf Awareness. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  8. ^ "Awards: Plutarch Winner; Theakston Old Peculier". Shelf Awareness . 23 May 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  9. ^ a b c "Awards: Plutarch Finalists". Shelf Awareness. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  10. ^ a b c d e f "Awards: NBCC Finalists; Plutarch Nominees; Arabic Fiction Longlist". Shelf Awareness. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Awards: Arabic Fiction Longlist; Plutarch Longlist; Farm Book". Shelf Awareness . 18 January 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Awards: Plutarch Long List; Golden Kite Winners". Shelf Awareness . 16 January 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  13. ^ Schaub, Micheal (17 May 2020). "Sonia Purnell Wins Plutarch Award for Biography". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  14. ^ "Awards: Plutarch Winner". Shelf Awareness. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  15. ^ a b c d "Awards: PEN/Faulkner Fiction Winner; Plutarch Finalists". Shelf Awareness. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  16. ^ Schaub, Micheal (16 May 2021). "A.N. Wilson Wins Plutarch Award for Biography". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  17. ^ "Awards: Plutarch Winner; RSL Christopher Bland Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  18. ^ a b c d "Awards: Hayek Winner; Plutarch Finalists". Shelf Awareness . 13 April 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  19. ^ a b c d e "Awards: Plutarch Longlist". Shelf Awareness . 26 February 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  20. ^ "Awards: Plutarch; Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Winners". Shelf Awareness. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  21. ^ a b c d "Awards: Plutarch, Dylan Thomas, Stella Finalists". Shelf Awareness. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  22. ^ a b c d e "2021 Plutarch Award Longlist". Biographers International Organization. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  23. ^ Schaub, Micheal (24 May 2023). "George Balanchine Bio Wins 2023 Plutarch Award". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  24. ^ "Awards: Plutarch, Jhalak Winners". Shelf Awareness. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  25. ^ a b c d "Awards: Sarton, Gilda Winners; Plutarch Finalists". Shelf Awareness. 18 April 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  26. ^ a b c d e "2023 Plutarch Award Longlist Announced". Biographers International Organization. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  27. ^ Schaub, Micheal (17 May 2024). "Winner of the 2024 Plutarch Award Is Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  28. ^ "Awards: Plutarch Biography Winner; Dylan Thomas Winner". Shelf Awareness. 20 May 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  29. ^ a b c d "Awards: Carol Shields Fiction Shortlist; Plutarch Shortlist". Shelf Awareness . 9 April 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  30. ^ a b c d e "Awards: Plutarch Longlist; Waterstrones Children's Shortlists; Bread & RosesRadical Publishing Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. 8 February 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  31. ^ a b c d e f g h i Schaub, Michael (7 March 2025). "Longlist for 2025 Plutarch Award Is Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
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