The Book Prize Index

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography recognizes biographies of exceptional literary, narrative, and research quality.

BiographyAward
Winners
19
Finalists
4
Shortlisted
0
Longlisted
0
First year
2008
Latest year
2026
Books
23

Deadline

Not yet sourced

Prize amount

Not yet sourced

Criteria / coverage

Active years represented: 2008-present. Covers winners and runner-up/finalist rows listed in the deterministic table. Runner-up rows are normalized to finalist status.

Source coverage

100%

Sourced records

23 of 23

Official site

Open source

Submission info

Open source

Prize history