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Making the Past Relevant (by Diversifying Biographies)
2021
Overview
After reading my new biography of World War II spy Virginia Hall, Code Name Badass, a seasoned biographer told me, “I’m... pleasantly surprised you got away with it!” The surprise was justified: it’s not often you see a YA nonfiction work that’ll make your grandma clutch her pearls. Despite the increasing presence of female writers, subjects, and narrative approaches to nonfiction, I’m still not seeing many books that marry the deep research required of a quality biography with bingeable prose. According to Slate, as recently as 2015, roughly three out of every four popular history books were written by men, and of the books that were classified as biographies, 72% were written about men.
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