Kai Bird has been awarded the 2024 BIO Award, an honor bestowed annually by the Biographers International Organization, to a distinguished colleague who has made significant contributions to the art and craft of biography.

Former Biography Fellow Justin Gifford was awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanties grant for his new biography-in-process, Time Considered as a Helix: The Life of Samuel R. Delany.

The Robert B. Silvers Foundation announced the recipients of the third annual Silvers-Dudley Prizes, which recognize “outstanding achievement in literary criticism, arts writing, and journalism.” Former Fellow Krithika Varagur (2022 – 2023), along with Fintan O’Toole, was awarded a prize for her journalism, which recognizes “achievement in reporting, long-form political analysis, or commentary.”