Biographies have always enjoyed a large and varied readership at least ever since Boswell penned his life of Samuel Johnson. Still, in the late twentieth century, biographies, while still extremely popular with the “general reader,” and frequently become best-sellers, tended to be pushed somewhat to the side by the historical interventions in social and cultural history but also by more recent burgeoning interests in global and environmental history. Yet, it seems that the closing years of the twentieth century also witnessed the rise of new forms of biographical writing that often focused on the marginal peoples of history, on the surprising number of important people forgotten by history, on non-political biographies, on families and groups, on the peoples of the “Global South,” and so on. Still, the biographies of canonical historical figures continued to appear, although were often written in a newer vein that, for instance, analyzed their protagonist(s) within a broader milieu that went beyond the older idea of “life and times.” In this Roundtable participants will discuss their own experiences with “writing biography in the twenty-first century,” and reflect on the biographical method more generally and assess its relationship to, and value for, other historical forms.