To honor former BIO member Chip Bishop and to help biographers in financial need, BIO co-founder James McGrath Morris has established the Chip Bishop Fellowship.

Chip Bishop, who passed away in 2016, was a BIO Board member who served on the Plutarch Committee. Morris lauded Bishop as a key player in the development of BIO. “Chip Bishop always told me the early BIO conferences were a huge help in getting his biographies written and published,” Morris said. “He obtained critically important information and landed an agent. There are other ‘Chip Bishops’ out there for whom the conference could play an equally important role. The Chip Bishop Fellowship aims for an aspiring biographer who is unable to afford to attend the annual conference.”

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Benefits

The winner of the fellowship will have the fee waived for the annual BIO Conference, or it will be refunded if they have already registered.

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Eligibility

The fellowship is open to both members and non-members.

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How to Apply

Please send your responses to the questions below to Michael Gately by April 1, 2022:

1. Have you ever attended a BIO conference? What year(s)?
2. Why do you want to attend the BIO conference?
3. Are you currently working on a biography? If so, are you researching? Writing?
4. Do you have a source of income (other than an advance for a biography)? If so, what is your job?