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Troublemaker longlisted for a PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

December 18, 2025

PEN America has announced their annual awards nominees, and Troublemaker has been longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. The award is for excellence in the art of biography. This prize of $5,000 goes to the author of a distinguished work published in the United States during the previous calendar year. The winning title is considered by the judges to be a work of exceptional literary, narrative, and artistic merit, based on scrupulous research.

Winners will be announced in March 2026.

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