The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to honor a "distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit which has been published in the United States during the previous calendar year."PEN American Center Literary Awards The award carries a $5,000 prize.
The award was established by Rodman L. Drake. Previous judges include Brad Gooch, Benjamin Taylor, and Amanda Vaill.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.
Award winners +PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography winnersYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2008Two Lives: Gertrude and AliceWinner2009Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc GodardWinnerSamuel Johnson: The StruggleRunner-upPosthumous Keats: A Personal BiographyRunner-up2010Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century SkepticWinner2011Cleopatra: A LifeWinner2012Catherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanWinnerRunner-up2013WinnerJames Joyce:Runner-up2014Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne MooreWinner2015Winner2016Agnes Martin: Her Life and ArtWinner2017Black Elk: The Life of an American VisionaryWinner2018Richard Nixon: The LifeWinner2019Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine HansberryWinner2020Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of AmericaWinner2021Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her WorldWinner2022All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days. The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler:Winner2023Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented RhythmWinner2024The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double LifeWinner2025Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of BaseballWinner2026Baldwin: A Love StoryWinner
References
External links PEN America PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award