The longlist has been selected for the 14th annual Plutarch Award, "the only international literary award for biography judged exclusively by biographers," and sponsored by the Biographers International Organization (BIO). Five finalists will be named soon, and the winner will be announcing during the annual BIO Conference May 28-29 in New York City.
The longlist:
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin by Daniel Brook (W. W. Norton)
Emerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy by Kate Culkin (University of Massachusetts Press)
The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin (Yale University Press)
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French (Liveright)
Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West by Max Perry Mueller (Basic Books)
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (W. W. Norton)
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade (Scribner)
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life by Graham Watson (Pegasus Books)