Jennifer Homans’ Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century has won the 2023 Plutarch Award for the Best Biography of 2022.

The Plutarch is the world’s only literary award given to biographers by biographers. Named after the famous Greek writer, BIO awards the honor to the best biography of the year, chosen by a committee of distinguished biographers.

Based on a decade of unprecedented research, Mr. B is the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”–from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels.