Recently, former President Barack Obama paid a visit to the Bessie Coleman Branch of the Chicago Public Library. Sitting ...

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 ...

Books — often riddled with gross grammatical and factual errors — are appearing for sale online soon after the death of well-known people. By Elizabeth A. Harris After Joseph Lelyveld, a former ...

Mack McCormick’s long-awaited book about the musician Robert Johnson has arrived, in modest and expurgated form. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

What better way to teach children about Black history than with illustrated, read-aloud biographies? Glenda Armand is an author in Los Angeles who has had a long career as a teacher and school ...

The group biography has been around for centuries: There was Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, written some 1,900 years ago and a staple of classical education ever since; the Bishop ...

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831) are towering figures in American history. Two stellar books published this year not only do full justice to their legacies, but also illustrate ...

After Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times, died last month, his brother Michael Lelyveld went online to see how he was being remembered. He found obituaries in major news ...