Biographers in the House?

If you're a biographer or historian, you really need to attend The Compleat Biographer Conference. This year, on May 21 at the National Press Club in Washington DC, the Biographers International Organization will be hosting its 2nd annual conference.

It's an amazing chance to network and learn from renowned biographers, agents, editors, publicity directors, librarians, archivists, and social networking experts. Highlights of the daylong conference include sixteen workshops on such topics as organizing your research, funding your work, turning research into narrative, interview techniques, writing the young adult biography as well as an opportunity to participate in Agent Speed Dating {maybe attend the Author/Agent Fit workshop first...}

The luncheon keynote address will be given by none other than NYSL trustee Robert Caro. NYSL Member Stacy Schiff will be interviewed and will sign copies of her latest blockbuster biography Cleopatra at an end of day reception.

May 21, 2011
The National Press Club
Washington DC
Conference Information

Congratulations to Trustee Robert Caro

NYSL trustee Robert Caro can add yet another award to his many honors.

Caro has been awarded the 2011 BIO Award, given by the Biographers International Organization "to a colleague who has made a major contribution to the advancement of the art and craft of real life depiction". {via Publishers Marketplace}

For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has won virtually every other major literary honor. The Power Broker was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.