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As the president of the Biographers International Organization, Steve Paul talks about the organization’s exciting new initiatives in 2025 and beyond. Paul spent more than 40 years in daily journalism and now, as an independent scholar, he is devoted to literary biography. His most recent book, Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell (University of Missouri Press), won the 2022 Society of Midland Authors Award. He also co-edited a collection of scholarly essays on Ernest Hemingway’s early life and writings, and he authored the biography, Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year That Launched an American Legend (Chicago Review Press, 2017). Steve Paul was interviewed by BIO member and podcast producer Jenny Skoog.