PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Given by PEN America

41 Works 18,129 Books 742 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
All, Winner (11), Shortlist (12), Longlist (18)
Years:
All, 2018 (1), 2017 (10), 2016 (9), 2015 (10), 2014 (5), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1)

Winner 11

WorkYear
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell2018
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson2017
Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal2016
Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court by Anna Whitelock2015
Holding On Upside Down: The Life And Work of Marianne Moore by Linda Leavell2014
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas by Tom Reiss2013
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie2012
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff2011
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael Scammell2010
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody2009
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm2008

Shortlist 12

WorkYear
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz2016
John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman2016
Michelle Obama: A Life by Peter Slevin2016
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan2016
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S. C. Gwynne2015
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs2015
Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh2015
Piero's Light: In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science, and Religion by Larry Witham2015
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson2014
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall2014
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell by Deborah Solomon2014
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson2014

Longlist 18

WorkYear
Jean Cocteau: A Life by Claude Arnaud2017
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn2017
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin2017
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman2017
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky2017
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow2017
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White by Michael Tisserand2017
American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins: the Art & Science of the Violin by Quincy Whitney2017
Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow by Laurie Wilson2017
The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century by Hugh Aldersey-Williams2016
Joan of Arc: A History by Helen Castor2016
Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan2016
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press by James McGrath Morris2016
Updike by Adam Begley2015
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey2015
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan2015
Becoming Richard Pryor by Scott Saul2015
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson2015

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