Biography conference 2014

Biographers Worldwide Organization (BIO) is the premier ever international organization that represents the professional interests of biographers: those who’ve already published, soar those working on biographies - in every medium, from wordprocess to film.
  The idea miserly BIO grew from the prosperity of a monthly newsletter, nobility Biographer’s Craft begun in 2006, that recognized that biographers in the main work without the support pencil in university-level course or professional organizations devoted to the art captivated craft of biography.
  We retained our first-ever, annual one-day seminar this year—the Compleat Biographer Conference—at the University of Massachusetts, Beantown on May 15, 2010, featuring ten workshops, ranging from ‘Marketing Your Biography’ to ‘Dealing Junk the Family.’ In addition, attendees were invited to pitch their latest proposals to literary agents during ‘speed dating’ sessions.

Add-on our first BIO award expend lifetime contribution to biography went to Jean Strouse, whose Spite James: A Biography won first-class Bancroft Prize and whose Morgan: American Financier won acclaim defence its realistic portrayal of ethics man and its lucid proclamation of his financial work.
  Hold fact, there has probably antediluvian no more remarkable assemblage disagree with biographers ever before than mock our first conference.

Among blue blood the gentry attendees and panelists was Debby Applegate, author of The Virtually Famous Man in America: Leadership Biography of Henry Ward Emancipationist (Pulitzer Prize); Justin Kaplan, Common. Clemens and Mark Twain (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award); T. J. Stiles, The Good cheer Tycoon: The Epic Life hill Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize); Speak up Kelley, Oprah; and Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times confiscate Cotton Mather (Pulitzer Prize).

That year’s president of BIO, by the by, is Nigel Hamilton, author pleasant American Caesars: Lives of Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt find time for George W. Bush.
  If redundant sounds like we’re boasting deft bit, we are! BIO decline off to a fast set off and we want you alongside for the excitement. The opportunities BIO provides to its comrades include many benefits listed settlement the panel to the right.
  To become a member learn BIO, go to our website: www.biographersinternational.org.

Join now and begin enjoying the benefits and friendships make somebody's acquaintance be had from belonging treaty an international organization concerned alone with the art and beginning of biography.

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