The longlist has been selected for the $2,000 2024 Plutarch Award, sponsored by Biographers International Organization (BIO).
The longlist:
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman (Dutton)
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton (Little, Brown)
Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson by Sally H. Jacobs (St. Martin's Press)
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer (Harper)
Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist by Larry Rohter (W.W. Norton)
Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar by Barbara D. Savage (Yale University Press)
Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt by Willard Spiegelman (Knopf)
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg (Knopf)
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo (Bloomsbury)
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Waterstones has selected the shortlists for its 2024 Children's Book Prize in the illustrated books, young readers, and older readers categories. The overall winner and category winners will be announced March 21. To see the nominated titles, click here.
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A shortlist has been released for the £500 (about $630) Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Presented by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers with support from Lighthouse, the prize is "dedicated to lifting up and celebrating radical left-wing political nonfiction." The winner will be named in a virtual ceremony at the end of February. This year's shortlisted titles are:
I Heard What You Said by Jeffrey Boakye
Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day & Shanice Octavia McBean
Poor Little Sick Girls by Ione Gamble
This Arab Is Queer, edited by Elias Jahshan
Uncommon Wealth by Kojo Koram
Other titles on the longlist included Regenesis by George Monbiot, The Racial Code by Nicola Rollock, and The Value of a Whale by Adrienne Buller.