Professor Wendy Moffat’s A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster was selected as runner-up for the PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award 2011 for Biography for “a work of exceptional literary, narrative and artistic merit, based on scrupulous research.” The world’s oldest international literary and human rights organization, PEN will celebrate the work of finalists at a reception in New York City in October. Earlier this summer, Moffat’s book was also chosen as one of four finalists for Scotland’s prestigious James Tait Black Prize in Biography. The James Tait Black, established in 1919, is Britain’s oldest literary award; Forster himself won the Tait Black fiction prize in 1924, for A Passage to India.