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Each is animated by the author’s love—for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can ...

Think you know the full and complete story about George Washington, Steve Jobs, or Joan of Arc? Think again.

A new biography on the legendary 20th-century author Mikhail Bulgakov has been labeled following the implementation of a ...

Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

‘Reagan: His Life and Legend’ by Max Boot is forthcoming from Liveright Publishing this fall Harry Langdon/Getty A new biography of Ronald Reagan will give a definitive look at the late president’s ...

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When Steve Jobs was 6 years old, his young next door neighbor found out he was adopted. "That means your parents abandoned you and didn't want you," she told him. Jobs ran into his home, where his ...

Having come out of the closet, or the casino, not long ago, as an unqualified Frank Sinatra idolater, I approached the second volume of James Kaplan’s biography of the singer (“Sinatra: The Chairman”) ...

Jan Morris’ life “seems impossibly rich”, said Charlie Gilmour in The Guardian. As James Morris, he experienced the world ...

‘To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies,” Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig in 1936. “Biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were to be had, we could not ...