Biographies have always been controversial. On his deathbed, the novelist Henry James told his nephew that his “sole wish” ...

She has also penned sympathetic biographies of Strindberg and Munch. In her latest work, she offers an "equally stout defence ...

Author Ramachandra Guha is an acclaimed historian ... where he studied physics. One of the best biographies on Einstein, the ...

A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

The Night Garden by Michael Chabon Chabon’s first novel for adults since 2016, inspired by a short story by Nathaniel ...

This biography of Laura Bush was written with White House cooperation, so author Ronald Kessler interviewed ... the people who knew the Reagans best, and what results is an incisive look at ...

There have been hundreds of books written about Marilyn Monroe ... had the odds stacked against her. Spoto’s biography is possibly the best: capturing the horrific origins of her early ...

But perhaps the best, most gripping dramas are those based on authors’ real lives ... But, while Jones shines in this adaptation of George Plimpton’s 1997 biography, it’s the supporting cast that ...

Max Boot’s best-selling biography of Ronald Reagan, “Reagan: His Life and Legend,” was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2024 by the New York Times, and also made best-of-the-year lists ...