Are biographies your cup of tea? Then check the annual longlist of best biographies. Biographers International Organization has announced the 2025 Plutarch Award Longlist. The
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winner will be announced during the 2025 BIO Conference, occurring June 5 and 6 at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Below are the nominees, listed in alphabetical order by authors’ last names:
- Max Boot, Reagan: His Life and Legend [ebook]
- Cynthia Carr, Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
- Margalit Fox, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss [ebook]
- Stephanie Gorton, The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
- David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
- Lucy Hughes-Hallet, The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
- Heath Hardage Lee, The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady
- Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
- Jackie Wullschläger, Monet: The Restless Vision