From today's Publisher's Lunch: The Biographer's Craft reports that the Center for the Humanities at the City University of New York Graduate Center's new Leon Levy Center for Biography will provide $60,000 year-long residencies for up to six biographers. They call it "what may be the largest, best-funded, and most ambitious effort to foster biographical writing."
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