PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyShortlist

Given by PEN America

49 Obras 13,012 Libros 395 Reseñas 4.1
Stages:
Todos, Winner (16), Runner-Up (2), Shortlist (49), Longlist (90)
Years:
Todos, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (4)

Shortlist 49

ObraAño
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm por Dan Charnas2023
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality por Tomiko Brown-Nagin2023
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century por Beverly Gage2023
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda por Ruth Harris2023
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century por Jennifer Homans2023
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler por Rebecca Donner2022
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness por Katie Booth2022
Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World por Philip Hoare2022
The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky por Andrew D. Kaufman2022
Orwell's Roses por Rebecca Solnit2022
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World por Amy Stanley2021
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture por Sudhir Hazareesingh2021
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman por Ben Hubbard2021
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. por Peniel E. Joseph2021
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz por Heather Dune Macadam2021
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of the Modern South por Jacquelyn Dowd Hall2020
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas por Stephen Budiansky2020
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives) por Adina Hoffman2020
Sontag: Her Life and Work por Benjamin Moser2020
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution por Helen Zia2020
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry por Imani Perry2019
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World por Andrea Barnet2019
Neruda: The Poet's Calling por Mark Eisner2019
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown por Lauren Hilgers2019
Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly por Joshua Rivkin2019
Richard Nixon: The Life por John A. Farrell2018
Grant por Ron Chernow2018
Chester B. Himes: A Biography por Lawrence P. Jackson2018
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn por Wendy Lesser2018
Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait por Victor Sebestyen2018
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary por Joe Jackson2017
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life por Ruth Franklin2017
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley por Jane Kamensky2017
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer por Arthur Lubow2017
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White por Michael Tisserand2017
Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art por Nancy Princenthal2016
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects por Deborah Lutz2016
John le Carré: The Biography por Adam Sisman2016
Michelle Obama: A Life por Peter Slevin2016
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva por Rosemary Sullivan2016
Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court por Anna Whitelock2015
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson por S. C. Gwynne2015
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League por Jeff Hobbs2015
Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer por Charles Marsh2015
Piero's Light: In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science, and Religion por Larry Witham2015
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East por Scott Anderson2014
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life por Megan Marshall2014
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell por Deborah Solomon2014
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 por Victoria Wilson2014

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