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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...