Plutarch Award Winners

Named after the famous ancient Greek biographer, the Plutarch is awarded to the best biography of the year by a committee of five distinguished biogra ...more

Winners

	Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer Homans 4.35 avg rating — 186 ratings Plutarch Award (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson 3.92 avg rating — 129 ratings Plutarch Award (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson 3.64 avg rating — 440 ratings Plutarch Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell 4.15 avg rating — 41,214 ratings Plutarch Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight 4.13 avg rating — 10,758 ratings Plutarch Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser 3.93 avg rating — 16,203 ratings Plutarch Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 4,734 ratings Plutarch Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan 3.96 avg rating — 4,579 ratings Plutarch Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee 4.03 avg rating — 457 ratings Plutarch Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore by Linda Leavell (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 108 ratings Plutarch Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro 4.36 avg rating — 17,583 ratings Plutarch Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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	I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 171 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 4,073 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell 4.22 avg rating — 1,176 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley 4.23 avg rating — 716 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham 4.48 avg rating — 4,269 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage 4.37 avg rating — 1,020 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World by Paul Fisher 3.96 avg rating — 72 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ted Kennedy: A Life by John A. Farrell (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 266 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin 4.39 avg rating — 358 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden 4.01 avg rating — 764 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis 4.27 avg rating — 596 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens 4.41 avg rating — 177 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson 3.88 avg rating — 123 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 4,623 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder 4.21 avg rating — 331 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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 (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 4,013 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama by Claude A. Clegg III 3.90 avg rating — 50 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington by Ted Widmer 4.43 avg rating — 1,566 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich 4.58 avg rating — 1,064 ratings Plutarch Award Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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