A review of 2021 Plutarch Award Longlist
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Are you looking for a new biography to read? Then check out the longlist below for the 2021 Plutarch Award--an award for best biography published in English chosen by fellow biographers. Also if you're looking for new biographies and memoirs to read, then consider subscribing to the Thanks for the Memories: Biographies and Memoirs newsletter, published every other month..
- The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama by Claude A. Clegg III,
- All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner, ebook
- Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder,
- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura, ebook
- Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson,
- Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan,
- Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis,
- The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights by Dorothy Wickenden, ebook
- Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson,
- Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith,