"The eminences that you are in the presence of do teach you,” says acclaimed biographer Megan Marshall. “Even if not directly how to write a poem, there are messages about life that are significant ...

When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author instead, she felt as if she “had been freed from prison.” The writing in the biography, ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...

The new book by historian Dr. Robert P. Swierenga about the Rev. Dr. Albertus C. Van Raalte draws upon information never before available, leading to what has been described as “the definitive ...

About midway through Robert Hilburn’s Paul Simon: The Life, the book’s subject embarks on a remarkable description of what went into the title track from Graceland—the loss, the beauty, the redemption ...

Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly formed work of art — one in which each early success bristles with portents of tragedy to come. Long before Wilde’s infamous libel case, his father ...