''Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly'' is an international, academic journal that provides a forum for biographical scholarship. Its articles explore the theoretical, generic, historical, and cultural dimensions of life-writing; and the integration of literature, history, the arts, and the social sciences as they relate to biography. It also offers reviews, concise excerpts of reviews published elsewhere, an annual bibliography of works about biography, and listings of upcoming events, calls for papers, and news from the field. The journal was founded in 1978 by

George Simson George Simson (1767-1848), of 36 Portland Place and Whitton Park, Middlesex was a politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Maidstone Maidstone is the largest Town status in the United Kingdom, town in K ...

, a professor of literature at the

University of Hawaii A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

. Simson also founded the nonprofit

Biographical Research Center A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or c ...

(BRC) and the University's Center for Biographical Research (CBR). The journal is owned by the BRC and published by the

University of Hawaii Press A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

. For several years Professor

Donald James Winslow Donald James Winslow (1911 – 10 July 2010) was a professor at Boston University in Boston, United States who specialized in the subject of biography. Life Donald James Winslow was born in 1911, the third of four children of Guy Winslow, presiden ...

of the

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was the magazine's bibliographer. In 1994, the editorship passed to Craig Howes at the University of Hawaii, who gradually expanded the content and instigated a redesign in 1999. The journal's first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on

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. ''Biography'' appears quarterly, in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall issues. From volume 22 (1999), the first issue of each year has contained a collection of articles on a particular theme, the first one serving as a

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for George Simson. The final issue of each year contains an annual bibliography of works on life-writing.

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Biography journals English-language journals Publications established in 1978 1978 establishments in Hawaii