Francesca Wade

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The Life That Refuses to End: Francesca Wade Wins the Plutarch Award for Her Stein Biography

Francesca Wade's Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife has won the 2026 Plutarch Award, the only prize for biography judged exclusively by biographers. A moment to consider what biography does — and what it cannot.

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A Biography That Reinvents Biography: Francesca Wade Wins the Plutarch Award

Francesca Wade has won the 2026 Plutarch Award for Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, described by a jury of biographers as groundbreaking. A book that doesn't just tell a life — it questions what telling a life can mean.