![]() George Marshall: Defender of the Republic, David L. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, George Packer (Knopf)Ī Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, Sonia Purnell (Viking) Susan Sontag: Her Life and Work, Benjamin Moser (Ecco) Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus, Fiona MacCarthy (Belknap Press-Harvard University Press) Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, Charles King (Penguin Random House) ![]() Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (W.W. This year’s nominees, in alphabetical order by the author’s last name, are:Īll the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856–1860, Sidney Blumenthal (Simon & Schuster)īlack Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, Kerri K. BIO’s Plutarch jury will choose five finalists from the longlist and announce the winner on May 16 at the 11th Annual BIO Conference in New York. The Plutarch is the only international literary award judged and presented by biographers. BIO’s Plutarch Award jury has nominated 10 books for the Plutarch Award, honoring the best biography of 2019. ![]()
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