He read late into the night, often long after I’d fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The biography kicks in, a welcome gift from the not-me part of the mind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I began at the end, as I sometimes did with biographies I had no intention of reading all the way through, and found his last words without too much searching. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dad preferred science and math books, biographies and history. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Besides that, I finished the first volume of a biography of Emperor Charles V yesterday, and I still have to work out the many genealogical charts I’ve collected and the notes I’ve taken. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He wrote: “Distraction during the appearance of the stimulus is always punished with the prolongation of the process,” notes a biography published by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour in the Netherlands. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Beside the legal pad is a biography of the author, a thick book called Divided Soul, the pages marked by numerous scraps of torn-up paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the small rectangular box that appeared next to the professor’s biography. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered a line from Ogden Morrow’s biography: The opposite sex made Jim extremely nervous, and Kira was the only girl that I ever saw him speak to in a relaxed manner. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph wasn’t sure what he was expecting ... a typed biography, perhaps, or a family tree, but it was neither of those things. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I began reading their biographies to find out what, if anything, in their lives had influenced their music. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always hoped that someone would write her biography, but for years nothing quite came together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ancient, back- broken math books, flaking travel books, warped spellers, mangled mysteries, biographies, music books, astronomy books, cookbooks. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unabridged biographies on each band member, along with copies of their side projects and solo work. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After finishing a few poetry books earlier in the week, I had read my first biography. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kyla is sitting one aisle over, but there are too many biographies in the way to tell if she’s freaking out, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In addition to a small biography of her grandmother, Candice and her mother had decided to include one of her grandmother’s favorite quotes: Just because you don’t see the path doesn’t mean it’s not there. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I imagine him sitting at home watching the History channel or reading a massive biography in front of a crackling fireplace. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The advance publicity for Skeeter’s biography has certainly suggested that there will be shocks in store for those who believe Dumbledore to have led a blameless life. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Instead of Steinbeck and Shakespeare, her students read “watered-down news articles or biographies, bastardized novels, memos or brochures.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her sudden disappearance confused Mr. Levy as much as her strange biography of Mr. Reilly had. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a biography and picture of the author and steel-cut engravings illustrating scenes from each play. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow Lydia and Matt and squeeze into a spot next to the S section of biographies. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Well then, before tomorrow I have to finish reading the first volume of a biography of Galileo Galilei, since it has to be returned to the library. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He later published a biography about Poe that was full of lies and attacked his character. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Baba, I read Dr. Schneider’s biography in the waiting room. He was born in Michigan. Michigan! He’s American, a lot more American than you and I will ever be.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The biographies were closest to the ocean and were especially moldy and not as desirable for the thieves. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I pick up the biography and can’t get past the cover for staring at his name and the title, The Big Sea. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When she was eighteen, inflamed by a biography of Florence Nightingale, she enrolled as a student nurse at St. Rose’s Hospital in Great Bend, Kansas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His students don’t know this—they know precious little of Volpe’s biography or his life outside the school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were racks loaded with mysteries, Newbery winners, historical fiction, biographies, and short stories. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She took the book and stared at the portrait and its accompanying biography as though she’d been turned to stone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rochambeau turns to us, her face pale, directs us to head to the far corner of the library near the biographies. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

So would it be shelved with sports books, biographies, or children’s books? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This biography always set racing a stable of emotions—self- pity in the lead, love and hate running evenly at first, the latter ultimately pulling ahead. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hamburg in those days did not have rock-and-roll music clubs. It had strip clubs,” says Philip Norman, who wrote the Beatles biography Shout! Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She talks so much, I could write her biography. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

If I’m going to die, I don’t want to spend the last few minutes being embarrassed in the biography aisle. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

So the woman has not read any of the articles or biographies around. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He died rich and famous, and was the subject, a few years after his death, of the first ever book-length biography of a musician. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Over the summer I read a biography of the anarchist Emma Goldman. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I sat on the lower bunk while Mom opened the trunk, grabbed a stack of the biographies my dad had agreed to part with, and placed them on the bookshelves. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then we wrote the tract of their lives, remote, unauthorized biographies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1896 she published a biography of Root that would have made an angel blush. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The story appears frequently in his biography, but may have been embellished by some of Bateson’s students for dramatic flair. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He later published a biography about Poe that was full of lies and attacked his character. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“That one’s gonna be over in the biography section, and those are in fiction.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He had a biography of Cortés; a translation of Gregory of Tours; a study of Victorian murderesses, put out by the Harvard University Press. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had already sent him a link to a biography of Leonhard Euler, an eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She came home from the Welch public library every week or two with a pillowcase full of novels, biographies, and histories. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only religious book I had in my collection was the Landmark biography Jesus of Nazareth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“This is a biography by the author, so it’s a good place to start.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Gordon starts class then, reminding everyone about due dates for the biography project. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I read her biography! Didn’t have her last words in it, though. I was a little bitter. All I remember is that she had a lot of sex. “I know. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Spouse abuse, sexual slavery, and multiple excommunications from the Church of England all figure in Puttenham’s revised biography,” as the above-mentioned Steven W. May sums it up. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bobby wanted the film to be a polemic,, not a biography—and he certainly didn’t want it to be about his bodyguard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had the idea that I’d write a book that was a biography of both the cells and the woman they came from—someone’s daughter, wife, and mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This paragraph from Accidental Millionaire, one of the many Jobs biographies, gives us a sense of how extraordinary his childhood experiences were. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She mended old books, put protective covers on new arrivals, organized monthly displays on subjects such as gardening, presidential biographies, poetry, African-American history. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it was also a sports biography. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I write the name of the person and a one-word biography!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The jacket he wore was a part of his father’s history, a fragment of Bull’s biography that occurred before Ben’s birth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fluttered, like Mr. Black’s fingers looking for a one-word biography, but no sound came out, not even an ugly sound, or breath. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember,” warned Mr. Kempsey, “to rewrite the biography in your own words.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

You and Coby sit on the floor in the back near the biographies, playing cards, whispering. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Poetry, fiction, history, biographies, the library had them all. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Virchow had been dead for a hundred years, and only one full-length biography of him existed, of which Farmer read every page. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Such biographies prove common for so-called gentle tribespeople and contributed to the acceptance of centralized authority as tribal societies grew larger. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, austerely pleasant man of about forty, a bachelor, and a writer by profession, being the author of several historical biographies. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite sketchbook is on the shelf above my desk now: a leather-bound planner that holds the almost-finished biography of the Prophet Muhammad. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It’s the author photo on the back of her Michelangelo biography, Angel in the Marble. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In his biography, it said that to this day, in Colombia, people come from far and wide to whisper their wishes into the cold stone ears of a Guillermo Garcia angel. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then the old nun would read from her favorite books, usually biographies of early American presidents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

History cannot devolve into medical biography—but nor can it stand outside it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been reading a lot more nonfiction, history and biographies. About everything, not just America.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I've made great progress with many of them, because for a long time I've been taking notes while reading biographies or history books. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When I got to my room, I found Takumi sitting on the couch, reading my biography of Tolstoy “Uh, hi,” I said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,” which is as much psychological portrait as biography, Doris Kearns Goodwin described Johnson’s political skills as “a surrogate for love and acceptance.” Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z

Whether you want biographies, novels or essay collections, we can help you find your next book to read. The Best Book That Amor Towles Ever Received as a Gift 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

So, Gaddis never wanted a biography, and never thought that a writer's letters should be published. The Letters of William Gaddis edited by Steven Moore – review 2013-06-15T08:01:58Z

I would assume Patterson thinks so, since she has read more than one Wharton biography. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

This biography demonstrates why her pioneering, iconoclastic ideas still resonate. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

"It's upsetting to a lot of readers, but, well, welcome to 20th century America," Charles J. Shields, author of the biography "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee," said in an interview Tuesday. Atticus Finch a racist? There goes the ideal 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

As such an oversight might suggest, the biography as a whole settles for breeziness and even glibness when close analysis is needed. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

But the assassin, amazingly, has not yet received a full-dress biography. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The biography draws on materials from Bainbridge’s British Library archives, her beautifully expressive correspondence and her laboratory stores, but also King’s decades of working as her assistant, from 1987 until her death in 2010. Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Adapted from a biography by Denise Paraná, this portrait of the statesman Time magazine named as the most influential world leader in 2010, is a conventional, rather shallow up-by-your-bootstraps drama, but with a difference. | 'Lula: Son of Brazil': ?Lula: Son of Brazil,? Directed by F?bio Barreto - Review 2012-01-12T22:38:30Z

Alexander Waugh's own writings include opera criticism and a family biography, Fathers and Sons, which was turned into a BBC documentary. Lost Evelyn Waugh letters reveal thwarted love for 'bright young thing' 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z

“She went to the library,” White writes, “and started checking out every kind of book — romance novels, spy novels, biographies, memoirs, history books, cookbooks — anything in print.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Don’t arrive here in search of a proper biography. A Breezy Look at Eve Babitz, a Writer With a Born Feel for the Charms of Los Angeles 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Robert Gordon’s biography of Muddy Waters, “Can’t Be Satisfied,” and Robert Palmer’s “Deep Blues” are both excellent on Waters and his journey from Mississippi to the South Side. A Buddy Guy Soundtrack 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

On the whole, though, this is an admirable, affecting and thoughtful biography, distinguished by a scrupulousness and good sense that animates its subject with vigor. Ernest Hemingway: The man behind the cultivated image of hyper-masculinity 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

As Stubbs demonstrates so persuasively in this fine biography, Swift, more than most, was a divided soul. Review | Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Well, it’s time for “Sid” to step away from volume two of a four-volume Lincoln biography, called “A Team Of Rivals That Included Me,” to fight back against this act of cyberwar. BREAKING: “The truth can now be told — I am Sidney Blumenthal!”: The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

The final episode, which delves deep into Angelyne’s biography, is almost theaterlike in the way it has characters step outside themselves and comment on their situations. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

A biography of two consummate actors becomes an exercise in performance. Review: Newman and Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Movie Star 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Why not add the novels to these exemplary biographies and see for yourself, with the full benefit of hindsight, how a Booker prize jury managed to get it wrong once again? Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Salk’s polio vaccine brought instant celebrity, but many colleagues were resentful, this excellent biography shows. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

How do you create stand-alone comics that are also part of an ongoing biography? The life of Wilhelm Reich as drawn by Elijah Brubaker 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Even When There’s a Him Around, Balanchine Is Still About Her The biographies of George Balanchine tell us of his several wives, of his other loves, and of his devotion to the female dancer. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in Balanchine at Lincoln Center 2012-09-23T21:36:02Z

Days before her death she had almost completed Girl in a Green Gown, a "biography" of Jan van Eyck's enigmatic portrait The Arnolfini Marriage. Carola Hicks obituary 2010-07-27T17:33:00Z

It seems fitting that her latest biography should take a graphic form, in which she swoops across the pages alongside her friends and contemporaries Modigliani, Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp and Hemingway. Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller ? review 2011-03-19T00:06:15Z

He turned to writing in 2003 for “Godspeed,” the first of his graphic biographies. Part Ramones Biography, Part Dreamscape 2013-08-08T12:00:13Z

Savage drew heavily on Arterton’s own biography and sensibility, so it’s easy to see why some critics have assumed that the film’s unhappy marriage must echo the actor’s. Gemma Arterton: ‘​Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

A loving and instructive biography of the late civil rights icon whose unshakable faith that seeking justice by noble means would ultimately lead to redemption. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Her book is a fascinating biography of the idea of middle age, “a story we tell about ourselves.” Books of The Times: ?In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age,? by Patricia Cohen 2012-02-01T23:15:46Z

He is writing a biography of the late congressman John Lewis. A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

While the film and the biography couldn’t be less alike, both reach similar conclusions about Ms. Winchester: She was considerably more heroic, and considerably less nuts, than she has sometimes been painted. This Horror Movie Is Based on a True Story. Sort Of. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Nineteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of general history, biography, poetry, general nonfiction and fiction, which — in a surprise — had two winners. Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

The late Tom Wicker’s biography of Nixon, called “One of Us,” is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn’t expected to feel. ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z

But if I trust anyone to tell a great story amid the noise, it’s box office whisperer — and subject of every one of my childhood biography projects — Steven Spielberg. Grading the Comic-Con trailers: ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Thor: Ragnarok,’ ‘Ready Player One,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

His author biography boasts that “he is the only Swedish pilot who has trained with the U.S. Marine Corps,” and it’s to be expected that this man’s novel would feature a military component. Nordic Noir, in the Horn of Africa 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

If anyone is entitled to write this exhaustive biography, it’s the man who was described by Rolling Stone in 2016 as “perhaps the world’s authority on all things Dylan.” Review | ‘The Double Life of Bob Dylan’ is the definitive account of a shape-shifting genius’s early years 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Although he serviceably relates the major events in O’Neill’s life, including his three marriages and struggle with alcoholism, readers looking for a comprehensive biography would do better with Louis Sheaffer’s two volumes. A new biography of Eugene O’Neill looks beyond the playwright’s demons

You examine the topic of race and the law in your collective biography of civil rights lawyers, “Representing the Race.” The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

This is a strong and sensitive biography of a writer who led an extraordinary life. Ben Lerner’s '10:04,' Leslie Jamison's 'Empathy Exams' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The workers’ biographies are traceable partly because of the sheer volume of legal paperwork, which tells of unpaid bills, stints in prison and abandoned wives. The Smallest State Has a Rich History of Furniture Makers 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Naturally,” Ernaux reminds us, “this isn’t a biography, neither is it a novel, maybe a cross between literature, sociology and history.” Annie Ernaux caps a remarkable stretch of unorthodox memoirs with 'The Years' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

“James Wright: A Life in Poetry” may be an unexceptional title for Jonathan Blunk’s engrossing biography, but it’s hard to think of a more fitting one. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Writer Shirley Jackson will be best remembered for her horror story “The Lottery,” but there was a lot more to her, as Franklin shows in this lively biography. Best books of 2017: The best nonfiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

“The show certainly celebrates characters we wish we had on the national stage now, but it’s also a cautionary tale,” said the historian Ron Chernow, whose biography of Hamilton inspired the musical. ‘Hamilton’ Puts Politics Onstage and Politicians in Attendance 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

There’s a big biography of Karl Marx, a harrowing story from the Jim Crow South and a biography of Grant. 8 New Nonfiction Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Salinger never authorized a biography, but several unauthorized books have come out over the past 30 years, notably one by Ian Hamilton. New biography claims more Salinger books due out 2013-08-25T17:08:53Z

In the book shop's biography section, man-worshipping volumes outnumber feminine fancies by roughly 20 to one. Bidisha: I'm tired of being the token women 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z

She adds: “Most of the great biographies are written about people who are dead, and thus the biographies are unauthorized.” ArtsBeat: Move Over, Alfred Kazin: That's Kitty Kelley Writing in The American Scholar 2010-12-09T21:30:00Z

The first major biography of Douglass in nearly three decades makes ample use of previously unavailable materials to illuminate Douglass’s later years, after the Civil War. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Hamilton,” the buzzy musical biography of an American founding father, is off to a strong start at the Broadway box office. 'Hamilton' Off to Hot Start at Broadway Box Office 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

He said that his agreement with Roth was similar to those he had with the literary estates of his previous subjects, all of whom had died before he began biographies of them. Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

C.M. sets out, in her grief, to report her own biography, a project she refers to as “a wrong turn taken and followed.” ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

As for Franklin, who also is the subject of the new biography "Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin" by acclaimed music biographer David Ritz being published Oct. Aretha Franklin shows how to sing the 'Great Diva Classics' 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

She contacted Beckett, offering to write his biography. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Dunn was born in Ohio and moved at age 15 to Pennsylvania, where he met Margera on his first day of high school, according to a biography posted on his website. 'Jackass' star died from Pa. crash's impact, fire 2011-06-22T00:46:13Z

A fine new biography of the earthy, masculine, intense-living and radical man who more than a century ago wrote such classics as "The Call of the Wild" and "To Build a Fire." 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z

Similarly, while his Steve Jobs film is officially based on Walter Isaacson’s biography, Sorkin used it as a mere starting point, and it took him a year to interview Jobs’s colleagues, competitors and family. Aaron Sorkin on the cult of Steve Jobs: ‘I hadn't seen anything like it since John Lennon was killed’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

He received an Academy Award nomination for his script for the 1956 film "Lust for Life," the biography of Vincent van Gogh starring Kirk Douglas. Radio giant Norman Corwin dies in Calif. at 101 2011-10-19T03:46:08Z

The judges of the Costa biography prize more or less turned their backs on conventional biography. First book award shows appetite for serious reading 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z

Mark Ribowsky’s new biography, “Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines,” describes the harrowing life that Taylor led from the 1960s through the ’80s. ‘Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: The Life and Music of James Taylor’ 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, Cambridge University Press published the English translation of the third volume of his biography: “Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941”. A toxic monarch 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

“You know in Acting 101 they tell you to write your character’s biography, try to write a journal in character,” Hawke said. Living With the Men of Paul Schrader’s ‘Man in a Room’ Trilogy 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

But none of this is lingered on in Matthew Dennison’s elegant but somewhat glancing new biography of Dahl, subtitled “Teller of the Unexpected.” A Rosier View of Roald Dahl 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

"This will, I am sure, establish itself as the definitive biography." Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-11-23T22:55:05Z

The prize recognizes English-language books from any country in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. Everest saga wins Samuel Johnson nonfiction prize 2012-11-12T22:13:47Z

While Bradbury never lost that metaphorical sense of smell — he maintained his love of literature until his death on June 5, 2012 — Eller’s second volume of Bradbury’s biography is ultimately a melancholy and cautionary tale. Review: ‘Ray Bradbury Unbound’ by Jonathan R. Eller

Poignantly, Crawford closes his superb biography with Tom picking up the first edition of “The Waste Land” and realizing that from that moment on he was, forever more, T.S. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Harrods has a startling new approach: vitrine biography! Holiday Windows, a (Sort of) Love Story 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

We can borrow from established biographies of political leaders, even some that have been embroidered yet swallowed whole by a credulous public. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Consider this my application to ghostwrite Mike Pence’s autobiography 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

First scripted by Joan O’Brien and Charles Denton, the film was in production when, according to a 1996 biography by Shawn Levy, Lewis learned that O’Brien was never paid her due. ‘The Day the Clown Cried’: Why Jerry Lewis’s Lost Holocaust Film Is Still Lost 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Parini is a fine writer who refuses to be confined to any particular genre — poetry, fiction, criticism, biography — even mixing them, for example, with fictionalized accounts of Herman Melville and Leo Tolstoy. Jay Parini on the complexities and contradictions of Jesus 2014-01-15T22:18:32Z

Unfortunately, Meryle Secrest's new biography, "Elsa Schiaparelli," is not likely to restore the designer to the forefront of the cultural imagination. 'Elsa Schiaparelli': Fashion designer too elusive for words 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Following Hitler's rise to power, the first project Zweig embarked on was a biography of Erasmus, which he described as "a quiet hymn of praise to the anti-fanatical man". Rereading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 2011-07-15T21:55:08Z

His biography is full of blanks, disappointments and mysteries – probably born in London, in courtly service on the continent, variously Protestant and Catholic. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z

An absorbing biography of the pioneering environmental writer on the 50th anniversary of “Silent Spring.” 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

Many are worthy of full biographies of their own. ‘Doing Time for Peace’: hard time for the peacemakers 2013-03-27T22:28:15Z

This “absorbing” biography of the first Black American fighter pilot “reads like a picaresque novel,” our reviewer, Thomas E. Ricks, noted. New in Paperback: ‘All Blood Runs Red’ and ‘Frankissstein’ 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

An English translation of a moving biography by his daughter is out, and he is seeing through not one but two museums of his art in South Korea. A Towering Figure in South Korean Art Plans His Legacy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

More an essay film than a standard musical biography, it emphasizes personality over chronology, and dwells more on the work than the life. ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Although dark tales about Jobs have appeared in biographies and movies, they have only burnished the legend: After all, the Übermensch is not a mensch. The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

It’s just as interested in describing the Disney animators’ workplace as it is in advancing Henry’s biography. Books of The Times: Lisa Grunwald?s ?Irresistible Henry House?: A Charmer?s Tale 2010-03-15T20:54:00Z

A “bewildered, unsophisticated” 19-year-old when she arrived in Hollywood, Gottlieb writes in this richly detailed, scrupulous biography, Greta Garbo rapidly rose to become the most inscrutable of movie stars, even to her friends. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Merry’s measured, insightful biography seeks to set the record straight, arguing that McKinley was shrewd and patient, and wily beneath the bland exterior. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Former President George W. Bush has written a biography of his father, former President George H.W. George W. Bush book on George H.W. Bush to be published Nov. 11 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

I'm addicted to biography and autobiography, and history. Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

Atlas went on to become a publisher, editor and the author of biographies of Saul Bellow and the poet Delmore Schwartz. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Art of Writing Biographies 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

Like most things about Kimball, the facts of his biography are more convoluted than those of the public persona. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z

His authorized biography of Roth, released on April 6, had been widely praised in The Washington Post, the New York Times and other publications. Perspective | The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Orphaned young, relegated to an uncle’s attic, Harbart suffers the kind of treatment that, as this berserk biography suggests, may have damaged his “still-solidifying brain.” Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

This picture-book biography of Thurgood Marshall follows him from his Baltimore childhood to the Supreme Court, as a lawyer arguing landmark cases and as the first black Supreme Court justice. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

He weaves together newly discovered nuggets and a polished perspective that vitalizes a twin biography of two people who were closer together and farther apart than most readers might remember. King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ciccone was born on Feb. 28, 1946, in Jersey City and began performing at 14, according to a biography on his website. Don Ciccone, Songwriter and Lead Singer of the Critters, Dies at 70 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

I read biographies of authors because I’m looking to not repeat their mistakes. Staying Together by Living Apart (in a Duplex) 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Readers and writers persistently return to the rise and fall of Hitler — Ullrich’s biography is the latest on a long shelf. Hitler and the Holocaust 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

It's a novel, not a biography, what Bass, in his acknowledgments, calls an "attempt to portray the emotional truths" of the Browns' journey. 'Nashville Chrome': Rick Bass' novel of the Browns, Elvis' gospel-singing sidekicks 2010-09-16T17:41:00Z

Mysterious figures about whom little for certain is known haunt the biographies of great writers. In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

And since “The Audacity of Hope” is already in use, Daniel Beaty titles his musical biography of Hayes, currently at Hartford Stage, “Breath and Imagination.” | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Breath and Imagination,’ at Hartford Stage 2013-01-26T01:22:56Z

Can biography evolve to meet our current demands? Should traditional biography be buried alongside Shakespeare's breakfast? 2013-02-07T11:45:57Z

Navy during World War Two, according to a biography on his official website. 'Godfather of ecstasy' Alexander Shulgin dies at 88 in California 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

I am drawn back to a passage in Tom Bower’s biography of him, with which he collaborated heavily. Why Victoria Beckham's quest for eternal youth pales beside the stars who are after your blood 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Poetic in its compression and efficiency, “Euphoria” presumes some familiarity with Mead’s biography for context and background, and yet it also deviates from that history in promiscuous ways. ‘Euphoria,’ a novel based on Margaret Mead, by Lily King

The image Frankfurter and others created is captured in the title of a popular Holmes biography written by Catherine Drinker Bowen and published in 1944: “Yankee From Olympus.” The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Next up for the author, following publication of her book Young Romantics last month, is a biography of 19th-century prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and his wife Mary Ann. Hay festival hears Byron and Shelley were 'monsters' 2010-06-03T10:49:00Z

In the absence of surviving documentation, Stuart is constrained to follow the "would have" school of biography. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z

This thoroughly researched biography of the controversial, scandal-plagued Israeli prime minister will likely become an essential contribution to understanding Netanyahu and his fractured country. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

"Get On Up," a biography of the soul singer James Brown, finished third with $14 million during its first weekend in theaters. Marvel's 'Guardians' rockets to $94 million domestic debut 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

And it was the biggest music biography that year. Hendrix Biopic at Toronto Festival Bucks a Trend 2013-09-09T12:58:18Z

Cigars, it happens, were something of an odd leitmotif in Richard’s biography. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

So when he decided to make his next album a sonic biography, it was bound to delve, perhaps uncomfortably, into questions about consumption. In ?One Pig,? Matthew Herbert Finds Music in a Pig 2011-10-17T23:39:17Z

There are many biographies of Henry Miller, but Mary Dearborn’s “The Happiest Man Alive” is the best place to start. In Crete, Henry Miller Found His Muse Amid the Ruins 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Prince’s carefully tended air of mystery had served as a force field, repelling any serious attempts at biography during his lifetime. Review | ‘The Beautiful Ones’ isn’t the memoir Prince envisioned, but it’s a moving look at the singer’s life 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

I discovered Bogie at Dog of the Day, a website that publishes reader-submitted biographies and photographs of endearing pooches. The Dog of the Day Site? I’m Obsessed, and Here’s Why 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Now “Orwell’s Roses” takes its place alongside other great non-biography biographies written by acclaimed authors who know how to tell a good story. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

He was the first U.S. country singer with his own British television series, according to his biography on the website of the Grand Ole Opry, which is based in Nashville. International country music singer George Hamilton IV dies at 77 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

At the time of his death he was working on a biography of Artie Shaw. Gene Lees, Jazz Critic and Historian, Dies at 82 2010-04-27T03:33:00Z

“I’m surprised by the number of biographies I read that paint their subjects in black-and-white terms,” Mr. Gates wrote. Bill Gates: The Billionaire Book Critic 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

It posted biographies of the animals and their journey to Here With Us on the organization’s website. Connect with rescued goats, pigs and cows by becoming a pandemic pen pal 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

Coming out on Tuesday from Basic Civitas Publishers, Mr. Joseph’s book, 10 years in the making, is being billed as the first definitive biography of its subject, who later changed his name to Kwame Ture. Peniel E. Joseph on His Biography of Stokely Carmichael 2014-03-03T21:52:52Z

Salinger film and biography are being billed as an unprecedented look into the mysterious life of the author of "The Catcher In the Rye." New Salinger book and film coming within next year 2013-01-29T18:46:04Z

“We swim in biography; we are sick with biography,” she writes. Face to Face With Culture’s ‘Monsters’ 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

Read them, but don’t ignore these promising books, which include fiction, memoir, biography and more. Review | The 10 books to read in September 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

The award for biography went to Amy Stanley’s “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World,” which examines the life of a 19th-century Japanese woman. National Book Critics Circle Names 2020 Award Winners 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Groveland “wasn’t really covered in a lot of the Marshall biographies, which tend to treat his criminal cases as footnotes,” he said. Gilbert King on His Pulitzer-Winning ‘Devil in the Grove’ 2013-04-24T21:49:56Z

In my biographies, I've often had to consider the question of highly personal letters – usually love letters. Is it OK to sell love letters? 2012-12-15T18:04:01Z

The contract for the biography provided that nothing would be published until after Thatcher's death. Margaret Thatcher biography heralds new chapter for former editor 2013-04-09T15:38:58Z

American interest in the Kennedy family never seems to fade: from best-selling biographies to ill-fated mini-series, we seem to be perennially obsessed with Camelot. 6 New Books About the Kennedys Land on Shelves 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

The biography covers the first decade of the artist’s career, in the 1950s, when she was building a formidable New York reputation as an independent artist making vivid and deeply personal abstract works. Perspective | Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

So how ironic that this most self-revealing of composers has been so often overshadowed, even betrayed, by his biography. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z

Eldon is hoping for a similar success with Flora’s collected letters and a possible biography, which sets off alarm bells in Eleanor. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The display at the German Federal Gallery includes works by Claude Monet, Max Beckmann, Albrecht Duerer and Pieter Brueghel, whose works are presented alongside biographies of people from whom the Nazis stole art. Nazi-era art hoard makes German exhibition debut in Bonn 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

David McCullough reads his biography of the Midwestern Wright brothers in a wise, New England-tinctured voice, bringing both a flair for engineering detail and a generosity with anecdote. Book World: 5 stories to relish even with your eyes closed 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

“A book of pictures doesn’t tell the whole story, so as a biography this one is incomplete,” she writes. Lee Friedlander’s Intimate Portraits of His Wife, Through Forty Years of Marriage 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

In this new book’s first essay, “Travelling,” Holmes suggests that “biography is not merely a mode of historical enquiry. It is an act of imaginative faith.” An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit,’ by Richard Holmes 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

“But the money is connected with the Nazi past, and this is a fact that has to be mentioned in the biographies of the collectors.” Nazi Cloud Hangs Over One of the Largest Jewelry Sales in History 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

And although the details don’t hew specifically to his biography, the pariah status acquired by the central character, an international concert pianist named Joel, is patently intended as a parallel. A playwright who wants to change society, not merely observe it 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hill was being interviewed because he has his own book out, "Elihu Washburne," a biography of a diplomat in the time of Lincoln and Grant. ArtsBeat: David McCullough Plans Book About Aviation 2012-11-18T22:30:39Z

As the title suggests, the book takes the “show, don’t tell” approach to biography and packs its slickly designed pages with visuals that go beyond book covers and author photos. The Essential Neil Gaiman 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

It is part biography, part uncomfortable comedy and part intellectual meditation about outsourcing our most intimate responsibilities. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

As for entertainment at this year’s dinner, it’ll be a keynote speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow, author of “Grant” and the Alexander Hamilton biography that inspired the blockbuster Broadway musical “Hamilton.” Perspective | Thanks, Mr. President, for making Washington’s glitziest dinner as dull as it should be. 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

“The date of his birth he would take on faith,” the scholar Arnold Rampersad wrote in his landmark 1986 biography, since Missouri law at the time did not require that births be recorded. Langston Hughes Just Got a Year Older 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

It will now, thanks to Bloodworth Thomason, who produced the film “The Man From Hope,” a campaign biography of Bill Clinton, and directed the new documentary “Bridegroom.” Musical of ‘First Wives Club’ heads to Broadway 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Still, the director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Basquiat wasn’t going to shellac Van Gosh in some staid biography of suffering for one’s art. Willem Dafoe: 'With success comes certain things that corrupt you' 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The palace was furious when she secretly cooperated with author Andrew Morton for the sensational biography “Diana: Her True Story.” Diana and the media: She used them, and they used her. Until the day she died. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Twinkle Little Earth” is a spoken word rundown of Spock’s biography. Leonard Nimoy's music blurred line between man and Vulcan 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Each season National Geographic’s new series, its first entry into the scripted realm, will choose one intellectual giant and spend multiple episodes breathing life and individual personality into biographies largely ordered and emphasizing their accomplishments. Not much “Genius” here: NatGeo’s Einstein series isn’t as great as the grand idea behind it 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Documentary films were made about his life, a biography was written, and critics praised his idiosyncratic singing and his resilience after a life of adversity. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88

Any one of those qualities, let alone all three, could land a biography on a summer reading list. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

She followed that in 1976 with a biography of Victoria Woodhull, a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

According to early biographies, the poet was tall, shy and of a philosophical temperament. Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

For my money, Hershberg’s biography is still formidable — but there is no discounting this new, relentless and personally invested account. An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

In this thought-provoking new biography, Sally G. McMillen argues persuasively that one person is missing from that Mt. A new book places Lucy Stone at forefront of women's suffrage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Despite rarely being around his children as they grew up, the workaholic Murdoch is “obsessed” with his family, says Michael Wolff, the author of a 2008 biography, “The Man Who Owns the News.” Rupert Murdoch’s handing the Fox reins to sons, but he’s not going away 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The more you learn about Chekhov, as you read biographies, memoirs, the letters – the more clear it becomes that he led a love-life of astonishing activity and complexity. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z

In his preface, Brennan refers instead to his book as an “intellectual biography,” which is a subtly different animal. A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

I scoured histories, memoirs, biographies for tangible detail, spoke with historians and translators. Janet Fitch on writing her new novel, 'The Revolution of Marina M.' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

As Walker shows in his biography, Chopin cared deeply about instruments to the point of identifying with them. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Almost every night, after Twitter frayed my nerves, I stayed up late reading Hammer’s biography to soothe them. The Books We’re Turning to Now 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The most sustained impression to date of his character, as well as his working practices, comes in Lucian Randall's new biography of the satirist, Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris. Chris Morris: the Orson Welles of British comedy? 2010-04-14T09:03:00Z

Mr. Dalton once described his biography technique this way: David Dalton, Rock Writer Who Lived the Scene, Dies at 80 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Even so, Ron Chernow, who wrote the 800-page biography “Alexander Hamilton” that is the source material for the musical, is on record as an admirer of the show. Song and dance as a political ‘Fix’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

And lest you’re still laboring under the misimpression that this series is pure biography and thus has no choice but to work in the children, note the disclaimer at the episodes’ end: ‘Masters of Sex’ Returns for Season 3, Children in Tow 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

This is a colourful and dramatic biography of the monk who became the first Grand Inquisitor of Spain, and whose name has come down to us through the ages associated with torture and terror. Theresa Breslin's top 10 books about the Spanish inquisition 2010-03-24T12:48:00Z

I keep their books and biographies near for inspiration and admire them even more now that I’m older. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The writer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author of two books on the Middle East and a forthcoming biography of President Jimmy Carter. On Barack Obama’s Memoir and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Hillary, the result, is a four-part biography that frames Clinton’s life against the arc of the women’s movement and recasts her career as a series of giant leaps and bounds. 'As guarded as Fort Knox': the inside story of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

This sometimes arcane but highly effective assemblage of rare furnishings, artifacts and a smattering of art and printed matter is a kind of exploration of taste as biography, through exhibition. Art Review: ‘Salvaging the Past,’ on Hoentschel, at Bard Graduate Center 2013-05-09T20:53:25Z

“In his writing Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth,” the biography said, referring to his 1987 novel published in English as “Red Sorghum” in 1993. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z

She always kept this biography by her bedside and underlined passages that were important to her. Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Holiday, who was often called “Lady Day,” would seem to be a natural subject for a first-rate biography, but for some reason that has not been the case. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

This is neither the first biography of Williams nor the first critical analysis of his work, but it is the first to weave both strands together so well. Making Tenn out of Tom 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Weaver is subtle and believable as she channels Mrs. Clinton’s improbable biography and even some of her real-life dialogue. Hillary Rodham Clinton Inspires ‘Political Animals’ Sitcom 2012-07-13T12:00:00Z

In terms of your own creative and intellectual biography, what are your major influences? "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" author Saladin Ahmed: "Politics are central to the story for me" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Willetts described the book Into the Silence as a gripping narrative and very powerful story, while Prideaux's biography was "a real eye opener", and The Spanish Holocaust "a strong history". Six books to 'change our view of the world' on shortlist for non-fiction prize 2012-10-04T23:01:03Z

So there’s nothing especially timely about the dutiful-but-not-colorful new Grant biography “Bring It on Home,” nor much that Zeppelin die-hards are likely to find revelatory. Review | A look at the man who helped solidify Led Zeppelin’s hard-partying reputation 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Deborah Solomon, calls this biography “accessible, factually reliable and, at 439 pages, free of the inflated heft of so many recent biographies.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

The lobby also features a lending library stocked with trashy — but essential — Los Angeles reads, like tell-all biographies of Elizabeth Taylor and Alfred Hitchcock. In Los Angeles, Hotel Hipness Makes a Grand Return 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

And yet, here she is, with an airport read extraordinaire, and more testimonials than Sarah Brown's biography and the whole of Gordon Brown's prime ministership combined. Is Kay Burley's new book any good? 2011-03-30T19:30:00Z

While researching my recent biography of Shepard, I found that most critics and scholars focused on the playwright’s relationship with his father. Rural America: Where Sam Shepard’s roots ran deepest 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Green was a vice president and senior editor of Knopf, where he edited fiction, biography, autobiography, history, current affairs and public policy. Ashbel Green, Longtime Editor at Knopf, Dies at 84 2012-09-20T01:55:13Z

“On the Air,” which includes more than two dozen songs, is an admiring, thoroughly researched musical biography of McPartland, who died last year at 95. Stacy Sullivan Sings in Memory of Marian McPartland 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The book’s chapters toggle between Green’s biography and the investigation of his murder. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

If allowed, I’d triple this list to include more memoirs, biographies and a few cookbooks. Perspective | The 10 books to read in October 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Efforts by India's Congress party to block the publication of a "dramatized" biography of its president Sonia Gandhi only stoked interest in the book, said author Javier Moro. Attempts to block book on India's Sonia Gandhi only fueled interest: author 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

But we never got to the point where he said, `Because of your politics you are no longer qualified to write the biography.' Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

This is a good time, then, for the publication of Dana Thomas’s new book about the pair, and Andrew Wilson’s new McQueen biography. Two butterflies, one wheel 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Adam Begley is a smart writer, and his forthcoming biography of Updike is tantalizing. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z

It turned out, however, that Bill Boeing's life lacked the narrative arc for a readable biography. 'Jet Age': Sam Howe Verhovek's story of how Boeing came to rule the skies 2010-10-15T21:11:00Z

In 1974, the year Hank Aaron broke Ruth’s career home run record, Robert Creamer published a biography rich in earthy detail tilled from interviews with men who’d played with him. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

His struggle, doubt, grit, immigrant story, artistic dreams — all were told in Volume 1 of Zachary Leader’s biography, “To Fame and Fortune.” Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

“There is a core of steel in Anne Pingeot,” said Philip Short, who interviewed her for his 2013 biography, “A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand.” In François Mitterrand Letters, an Intimate Portrait of the Other Woman 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Wenner sold the majority stake in his flagship publication in 2017, a couple of months after the disdained biography came out. For Jann Wenner, the Music Never Stopped 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Yet their childhood experiences were so similar, their lives so parallel, that you could mix up many facts of their biographies and they’d still be true. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

“This, dear reader, is not a biography,” Rivkin insists in the first chapter. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Rowe prefaced his 1709 edition of Shakespeare's Works with a short biography that was reissued last year to mark its 300th anniversary. Shakespeare biographies: the good, the Bard and the ugly | Michael Caines 2010-04-05T11:16:00Z

That event isn’t much more than an aside in most Twain biographies, which have understandably concentrated on Twain’s busy life and abundant writings. 2010-02-11T08:05:00Z

Knowing that the best-selling author was bothered by the lack of a biography, Shields approached Vonnegut about writing one in 2006. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z

Mr. Parker is the choreographer, and in his program biography Mr. Kazin is described as his muse. Dance Review: A Partnership Forged by a Mutual Love of Music 2011-06-09T00:08:19Z

“On Gold Mountain,” her 1995 biography of her family over the previous century, involved five years of research, including interviews with more than 100 relatives. Tales of shipwreck, war and nightclub dancers all at the National Book Festival

So I wanted to ask Mr. Hammer more about Merrill, the Ouija board and biography. About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Billington, the Guardian's theatre critic since 1971 and author of several books including a biography of Harold Pinter and State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945, said: "I'm thrilled, delighted and surprised." Michael Billington and Philip French receive OBEs in New Year honours 2012-12-29T00:08:02Z

In a discussion with a caller on his show, Rush Limbaugh revealed that he did not have a cat named Banjo, as his comic book biography claimed. Comic Book Heroes Drawn From Real Life 2010-07-28T23:00:00Z

Tonight's Costa category awards will bring 2012 to a close by naming books of the year in five categories – , first novels, biography, poetry and children's fiction. Which books will win the 2012 Costa prizes? 2013-01-02T16:44:00Z

“My view has been for a long time that there ought to be a biography,” he said. Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

With her arrival, this biography goes somewhat dark, like one of those satellite photographs of North Korea at night. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z

For interested readers, Budiansky supplies an appendix that moves through Gödel’s proof, step by step, but granular knowledge of formal logic isn’t essential for anyone’s enjoyment of this moving biography. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Everybody I know has seen it or is screaming for tickets,” said Joanna Coles, the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, who saw it with the historian Ron Chernow, whose 2004 biography, “Alexander Hamilton,” inspired the musical. The Musical That Michelle Obama, the Clintons and Madonna Couldn’t Wait for Broadway to See 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Whether “new biography” or not, were there other books you admired or used as models that bring together a group of people? ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z

Gwynne, author of the riveting Quanah Parker biography “Empire of the Summer Moon,” takes on Confederate Civil War general Stonewall Jackson, a master strategist and relentless taskmaster who believed his cause was divinely inspired. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Wilson structures “A Magical World” as essentially a series of lightly sketched biographies of the era’s most prominent theologians, philosophers, physicians, cosmographers and antiquaries. Review | How scientists came to be 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Aaker, whose biography describes him as the “father of modern branding,” offered a cautionary message to companies that have or are considering adopting the plus sign in product names. Many Pluses, Zero Minuses, Some Division 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Baird’s uncommonly frisky biography is outstanding for its liveliness and originality. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

I was already researching a biography of Thomson when I started writing reviews for The Boston Globe. An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The illustrated biography of the author's father, Vladek, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, depicted Jews as mice and the Germans as cats, and won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Can Anne Frank's Story be Told in a Comic Book? 2010-11-21T05:25:00Z

This roughhewn, exuberant biography demonstrates that the moniker stuck for good reason. ‘Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel,’ by William Wellman Jr. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Many of those pictures illustrate Mr. Petherbridge’s biography, but there’s a lot of Shakespeare in there, too. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Kennedy’s expansive life has yielded no shortage of biographies, but Gabler’s is on its way toward becoming the most complete and ambitious. The Best of the Kennedys? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

This biography was especially comforting at a time when I was recovering from cancer treatment. Ibram X. Kendi Likes to Read at Bedtime 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

"George W. Bush," the newest addition to PBS's "American Experience" presidential biography catalogue, debuts at a curious time in our history. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

His works included “Historical Consciousness,” ”Five Days in London,” the memoir “Confessions of an Original Sinner” and a biography of his friend George Kennan, the Cold War strategist. John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian, dead at 95 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Surviving a Struggle With a New Sense of Hope Last Tuesday, with the release of the memoir “Diamond in the Rough,” Shawn Colvin, a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter based in Austin, officially added “author” to her biography. Texas Monthly: Shawn Colvin Releases ‘Diamond in the Rough,’ a Memoir 2012-06-10T00:54:23Z

For its insights into American theater in the postwar era, Mr. Lahr’s biography has been compared to Kazan’s autobiography, “A Life,” but they are not in the same league. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

But in fact, according to a recent biography, she was born in Bombay in 1831, to a poor, widowed teenage mother of mixed British and Indian origin. The King and I: the all-singing, all-dancing harem whitewash 2010-04-15T07:58:00Z

If there are two takeaways from “Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker,” a smart and sympathetic but hardheaded new biography by the Toronto journalist Jason McBride, they are these. Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

In the biographies Eyssen read while developing the show, she said, Elisabeth’s character is portrayed as “difficult, fragile, almost bipolar, melancholic.” An Empress Ahead of Her Time Is Having a Pop Culture Moment 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

A preface describes the book as a “literary fantasy derived” from Solanas’s biography; “Few facts are known about Valerie Solanas and this novel is not faithful even to those,” the note continues. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

I read quite a number of biographies while researching “The Square and the Tower.” Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Cesar Chavez,” directed by Diego Luna, is a well-cast, well-intentioned movie that falls into the trap that often awaits film biographies of brave and widely admired individuals. Movie Review: Hero Worship Abounds in ‘Cesar Chavez’ 2014-03-27T22:07:35Z

The authors call these “extremely important”; such documents also provided much fodder for another biography they co-wrote, “Mao: The Real Story”, which was published in 2012. Still in the shadows 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Gill’s biography is especially good in delineating Vanessa’s charismatic appeal for her sister, whose adoration was never quite reciprocated. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The man made for good copy and, based on Michael Shnayerson’s fast-paced and absorbing biography in the Jewish Lives series, he still does. Was Bugsy Siegel the ‘Supreme Gangster’? A Biography Makes the Case 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

What I've been doing in my most recent biographies is to look at them more from a historical angle as well. What the fraught "Elizabeth & Margaret" relationship can tell us about Prince William and Harry 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

There, snuggly positioned between various musings on queer culture and biographies of Harvey Milk, I spotted a very plain, very thin grey book: Gay Semiotics by Hal Fischer. Queer art pushes boundaries: why I made my explicit gay porn music video | Brendan Maclean 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

True-life biography hasn’t been a fertile subject for open-ended series, much less literary biography. Reviews: Amazon Pilots Include a Revolt and the Supernatural 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

In his short biography Mr Moshenska successfully brings back to life a forgotten self-made man who was at the same time braggadocio and philosopher, and who seemed to live so many lives. Forgotten hero 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

But as a chronicle of one impossible brilliant actor and the community around her, this biography provides a thoroughly entertaining and vividly drawn picture of show business in the 20th century. Shut Up and Drink Your Champagne: The Impossible Life of the Impossible Elaine Stritch 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Let’s begin by calling it a novel about warring biographies. ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

One way to read Mark Harris’s crisp new biography, “Mike Nichols: A Life,” is as a tender comedy about a man and his wigs. ‘Mike Nichols’ Captures a Star-Studded Life That Shuttled Between Broadway and Hollywood 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Their harrowing biographies lend heft to a story drenched in heartbreak. Review: Out of Africa (and Kansas City) Comes The Good Lie 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Charles Shields's biography of Vonnegut, And So It Goes, appeared last year, but there is no substitute for a well-rounded collection of letters. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z

I didn't know how many Dickens biographies there had been, how many books on London, it doesn't bother me. Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story' 2011-08-25T13:51:05Z

That word tolls like a bell throughout Brian Jay Jones’s new biography of George Lucas. The force is strong with this one: ‘George Lucas,’ by Brian Jay Jones 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

It felt like a new form of biography where the shape of the book and the journey of its making are vital. Summer Readings: Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe 2011-07-30T09:00:01Z

When he published his biography of Toscanini in 1929, early critics noted that it contained a number of errors. Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

In 2006, I was researching my biography of Modigliani in Paris, and many of the specialists I tried to interview at first either ignored me or refused to talk. T Magazine: Succès Fou 2012-10-03T23:02:54Z

His books are mostly just as good, especially his 2004 biography of the comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z

In her program biography, she writes that she is “delighted with her two new hips.” Review: The Peggy Spina Tap Company at the Spina Loft in SoHo 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

The death was confirmed by Michael J. Bowen, who is writing his biography. Joseph Sarno, Director of Sexploitation Films, Dies 2010-05-03T02:14:00Z

There have been many biographies of Tiger Woods, and surely there will be many more. A New Biography Traces Tiger Woods’s Mythical Rise and Fall 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

It is possible to be dazzled by the bravura authority of her writing without remotely agreeing with her, and this biography fully captures such contradictions. Books of The Times: ?Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark? and ?Lucking Out? - Review 2011-10-26T22:07:52Z

More daring still, this chorus of contemporary women’s voices is punctuated by tantalizing snippets from a biography that Ro is working on during her spare time. Review | ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real. 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

His “Martin Luther” is not a scholarly biography, despite its footnotes, but an attempt to make Luther attractive to a general audience. Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

One thing he did that he said he came to regret was to write a biography of Ms. Stratten, “The Killing of the Unicorn,” which was equal parts adoration and accusation. Peter Bogdanovich, 82, Director Whose Career Was a Hollywood Drama, Dies 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

“I knew what I didn’t want to do, and that was to write a traditional biography of an unwilling participant.” New '33 1/3' book explores life of mysterious chanteuse Bobbie Gentry 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

In 1968 he moved to Berkeley, California, where he began performing in local clubs, the website biography said. Eddie Money, rock 'n' roll hitmaker and reality TV star, dies at 70 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

“To outsiders he was introduced as a distant cousin,” Mr. Short writes in his biography. In François Mitterrand Letters, an Intimate Portrait of the Other Woman 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Jasanoff uses Conrad’s novels and his biography to tell the history of that moment, one that mirrors our own. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

To read this biography with an eye only toward the parallels between the two presidents would be lazy and unfair, a disservice to Farrell’s nuanced scholarship. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Shelley is as intriguingly animated here as the figure who appears in biographies of the poet, and Shepherd is as sensitive to the cadences of Claire Clairmont's voice as more scholarly chroniclers of her life. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z

“From the very start,” he writes, “I thought of writing biographies as a means of illuminating the times of the men I was writing about and the great forces that molded those times.” In ‘Working,’ Robert A. Caro Gives Us a Brief Look at the Process of Writing His Epic Books 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

She surrendered "complete control" to Wilson, handing over old journals and diaries as fodder for his poetic staging of her biography. AP Interview: Marina Abramovic, performance artist 2012-10-06T06:16:03Z

The movie is the fifth fictional feature by this Brazilian director, whose sensational 2002 debut, “Madame Satã,” was a fictionalized biography of a notorious nightclub performer and criminal in Rio de Janeiro. A Festival Starts With the Sensual 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Brown, a historian at Elizabethtown College and the author of several previous biographies, contends that given the “eclectic range” of Henry’s experiences, he led a “rarer” life than his prominent forebears. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Other award categories include essay collection, science writing and biography. PEN Announces Finalists for 2015 Awards 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

She also recently signed with the influential music publisher Boosey & Hawkes, whose biography of her online includes the promise of a third recording: “Sounds of Freedom.” Courtney Bryan’s Music Brings It All Together 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Lopez is a columnist for Art & Antiques and author of "The Man Who Made Vermeers," a biography of the forger Han van Meegeren. 'Priceless': Undercover FBI agent infiltrates the lucrative world of art theft 2010-06-09T23:49:00Z

Sunday's concert, Greene notes, will be "representative of every iteration of the Bobs" and will include new material from a CD of "nonliteral biographies" that's in the works. The Bobs, now Seattle-based, celebrate 30th birthday 2012-08-22T23:14:03Z

His dust jacket biography notes that he now divides his time between London and Umbria, Italy. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Presidential biographies also provided context, countering the tendency to think “that whatever’s going on right now is uniquely disastrous or amazing or difficult,” he said. Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

“Personal History” had won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Katharine Graham at 100: Inside the making of one of the greatest Washington memoirs ever 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Martin Gottfried, a drama critic and the author of several biographies of entertainers and playwrights as well as two influential studies of the Broadway musical, died on Thursday in Manhattan. Martin Gottfried, Theater Critic and Author, Dies at 80 2014-03-08T02:15:02Z

Aided by a facilitator, they will delve into “Martin’s Big Words,” a picture-book biography of Dr. King, written by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Bryan Collier, that draws on his speeches. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:58:22Z

But “Revolver” is rewarding biography, highlighting Colt’s place in the history of industrialization. Guns, Gunfights and the Legends of the Wild West 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Shields decided he needed to update his biography. Harper Lee Biographer Charles Shields on His Latest Edition 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

When the historian Marquis James died in 1955 before he could embark on a planned biography of Washington, Mr. Harlan took up the task. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z

Around the time his recording sessions book was published, he described the market for Beatles biographies as “oversaturated.” ArtsBeat: Tune In, and Turn On the Reading Light 2013-12-27T20:38:53Z

She weaves his biography with threads of history — political, medical and scientific — and the tale of an up-and-coming New York City. Deep Below Rockefeller Center Lies a Legendary Botanical Garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

There’s also a new biography of Robert E. Lee, an insider’s account of Trump-era Washington and an essay collection about antisemitism and the hazards of Jewish memory. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

But the title so perfectly fits Philip Sheridan, the subject of this biography, that author Joseph Wheelan may be forgiven for using it again. 'Terrible Swift Sword': Philip H. Sheridan's never-ending battles 2012-08-01T20:00:06Z

Mr. Zehme’s “Carson the Magnificent: An Intimate Portrait” was published in 2007, but he never completed the full-fledged biography he had planned. Bill Zehme, Author With a Knack for Humanizing the Famous, Dies at 64 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Compared with her 2018 biography, Daniels said, “It’s a little bit more campy.” Film star and Trump accuser Stormy Daniels returns as comic book hero 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Smeagol wasn’t a scary creature who lived in a cave,” Colbert said before recounting Smeagol’s biography, and how he killed his cousin after finding the One Ring. Watch Stephen Colbert Mock Scientists for Making Wrong 'Lord of the Rings' Reference 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

What keeps this indispensable biography from being definitive, however, is Lahr's practice of interpreting the plays as though Williams were a patient on his couch. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think that I could have written the biography without them, because they say what is happening in David’s life in those years.” A Lover’s Impact on David Wojnarowicz, for All to See 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

She disputed a story from Andrew Spoto’s 1983 biography “The Dark Side of Genius” that he left her stranded, and terrified, for an hour. Pat Hitchcock, daughter of Alfred Hitchcock, dead at 93 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Whatever fresh insights these biographies can claim rest more on interpretation than on the discovery of new facts. Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Publishers are, too, which might explain why April is front-loaded with so many big books, including biographies, essays, short stories and knockout novels. 10 books to read in April 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

In the festival programme's biographies, Gordon described his music as "always in search of serenity". CLS/Layton/Spence/Watkins – review 2013-07-15T16:52:20Z

Andrew Jackson’s brief biography mentions both his expansion of the vote and “his punitive Indian policies.” Presidents Gallery reopens with a look at both the good and bad of the men 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Numberless biographies, of course, have been written about people who also told their own stories; all that’s needed is perspective. A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Neuwirth’s inspiration is Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando,” a fictional, often funny biography that blurs both genre and gender. Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Jones, the author of the new biography “The Lives of Robert Ryan,” will speak at several of the screenings. Movie Listings for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Ware loves her food to the extent that her Twitter biography reads: "I eat and sing." Glastonbury festival: Jessie Ware's wildest moments 2013-06-29T23:05:17Z

Plagens brings two distinct advantages to his project, which combines critical analysis with biography and even autobiography. What is an artist? Peter Plagens' 'Bruce Nauman' illuminates 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

"A really good biography does not have to resolve all issues," Gaddis says. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

In his biography “In Which Milne’s Life Is Told,” Paul Brody wrote, “Even if the characters were personified versions of his son’s toys, where they lived was real.” Making your own house at Pooh corner — author A.A. Milne's home is for sale 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The biography, which also received a National Book Award, employed an organizing device, unusual for its day, to which Mr. Kaplan would return. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z

“The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson,” a sympathetic biography of the colonial-era Massachusetts governor who sided with the British, was published in 1974, not long before President Nixon’s resignation. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

A couple of days after arriving at the hotel, Lisanby brought another man back to the room, and Warhol exploded, hurt — an event that has been described in biographies of the artist. Warhol-mania: Why the Famed Pop Artist Is Everywhere Again 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

McBride’s study serves as both a biography and a cultural history of Europe’s influence on Hollywood that will be a great companion for those interested in underexplored comedies in film history. Review | A forgotten filmmaker who influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder gets his due 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that is why Secrest—who has also written books on Frank Lloyd Wright, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Modigliani, among others—is the first to write a biography of the Italian couturiere. Books to Watch Out For: October 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mark Harris’s portrait of director Mike Nichols is a pleasure to read and a model biography: appreciative yet critical, unfailingly intelligent and elegantly written. Review | ‘Mike Nichols: A Life’ is a shrewd, in-depth examination of the elusive man behind the polished facade 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

I am currently reading the new doorstop-thick biography of Noel Coward, called "Masquerade," which gives the real difference between the public life he led and his secret life. Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

A dozen of the biographies are being used for print, online and outdoor ads running in cities around the world. Cathay Pacific Puts Its Best Faces Forward in New Ad Campaign 2010-07-26T02:20:00Z

In “Chasing Hillary,” Chozick has written neither a raw personal memoir nor a biography of Clinton, but rather an account of all the elements that came between Clinton and the journalists condemned to cover her. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

This piqued my interest, and I started to read biographies of him, which fuelled my curiosity and admiration. Erik and Me: Alistair McGowan on Satie 2013-07-12T17:30:08Z

This two-hour special weaves together investigative biographies of Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, drawing on interviews from those who know the candidates best. What’s on TV Tuesday: Issa Rae in ‘Insecure,’ ‘The Lobster’ and ‘Drunk History’ 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

And they frankly reveal the narcissism he brought to his long marriage to Molly Day Thatcher, who deserves her own biography someday. Books of The Times: ‘The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan’ 2014-04-16T21:14:50Z

He was, as Cynthia Carr observes in “Fire in the Belly,” her thorough and sensitive new biography, “so ugly he was beautiful.” Books Of the Times: ‘Fire in the Belly,’ on David Wojnarowicz, by Cynthia Carr 2012-07-19T21:57:47Z

Amid all this tumult, there is—as there is not in the contemporary biographies of Tolstoy I got my hands on—the tennis. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Readers interested in learning more about the real life behind the fiction would do well to read the comprehensive and insightful biography that Adam Sisman produced, with Mr. le Carré’s cooperation, in 2015. John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Read a biography like this, and you’ll find them shockingly so. The fullest biography of Paul McCartney ever 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

When she read the Lawrence poems, she was shocked, as she told me in a 1989 interview for the biography. Critic?s Notebook: Recalling a Revered Singer in Harlem 2011-02-27T22:42:03Z

It also provides a fresh overview of the "Oracle of Omaha," the subject of a best-selling 2008 biography for which he also extensively cooperated but reportedly had mixed feelings. Investor Warren Buffett's life is chronicled in HBO movie 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

In fact, this biography reads like two books: one an intelligent, even donnish work of criticism that connects the poems to the life, the other a sensationalistic anthology of gossip and subdued malice. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

There is an alternative doctrine more popular today – what one might call the blackwash biography. Martin Luther King ? a whitewash can be right 2011-04-04T20:00:01Z

Morgan's impressions of all the royals are several parts research and more than a few parts guesswork; it is fiction guided by biography. "The Crown" presents Princess Diana of Wales, patron saint of tradition-defying divorcées 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

The first full-length biography of Frank Kameny, the intellectual father of the gay liberation movement, also provides fascinating new details about the movement before 1969’s Stonewall riots. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

But readers of this biography will begin to see these things as only part of a complex self. Review | A look at the forces — and tragedies — that shaped Frank Lloyd Wright 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Ostensibly an espionage thriller told through the fragmented biography of an operative known only as the Agent, “eL/Aficionado” is the second installment in the tetralogy “Now Eleanor’s Idea.” Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

The other tremor you felt was the dropping of a new Ron Chernow biography, “Grant,” the story of the general turned president tasked with the ultimate political challenge, uniting a post-civil-war society. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

The best of Bainbridge’s fiction — and this marvelous biography — invites us to do both. Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

A biography that reads like a novel, Stanley’s book reconstructs the life of a rebellious Japanese woman who abandoned a series of husbands and absconded to Edo during the early 1800s. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

After hearing Liszt perform the sonata in 1836, Berlioz wrote of Liszt’s impressive fidelity to the text in a review quoted in the first volume of Mr. Walker’s biography. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

News of the gift — Ms. Lee insisted that it be a loan — came to light in 2006 with the publication of “Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee,” a biography by Charles J. Shields. Michael Brown, Whose Industrial Musicals Gave Wings to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 93 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Pearlman had roles on the TV version of “The Purge” and “Chicago Justice,” according to a biography on her personal website. Actor Lindsey Pearlman found dead after going missing in LA 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

This first full-scale biography of the group focuses on how a zealous band of San Franciscan photographers revolutionised ways of seeing in the early 1930s. Hotshots 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

As pictured in Randall Wright’s entertaining documentary biography of Mr. Hockney, 78 and still going strong, the paintings’ light is so dazzling that the pigment seems to glisten. Review: Basking in an Artist’s Sun in ‘Hockney’ Documentary 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The other thing that glows in “Ex-Wife,” and the biography of its author, is New York City: the lights, the fights, the freedoms, constraints and terrible costs. She Wrote Frankly About Divorce, and Suffered the Consequences 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

Wendy Lesser’s new biography, “You Say to Brick,” takes a similar tone, referring to its subject simply as “Lou” and finding reasonable and plausibly human explanations for behavior that often seems, from the outside, callous. Louis Kahn: Extraordinary architect, complex family man 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Often described as the longest biography ever published, the work spans eight volumes and more than eight million words. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

In Nabokov’s classic biography of the Russian novelist, newly reissued, he begins with Gogol’s death and works back to his birth. New & Noteworthy 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

She later assisted him in the composition of the “Dance” books, and wrote many books herself, including biographies and memoirs. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

She needs to make sure that the version of Barbra that the world knows — onscreen, in recordings, in biographies — is the version she sees, as exactly as possible. Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Phillips implies that the complexities of psychoanalytic experience would be “Freud’s proof that biography is the worst kind of fiction,” but he produces no evidence to support this assertion. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Hence, I suspect, the preponderance of biographies for children published to coincide with Black History Month. Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Toward the end of James M. Hutchisson’s deftly written biography “Ernest Hemingway: A New Life,” we are reminded to “remember how difficult it was for him to be ‘Ernest Hemingway.’ The quiet tragedy of Ernest Hemingway 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Art has a relationship to traditions, to the unconscious, to wishes and desires that simply cannot to reduced to your own biography. Should you feel guilty owning Rolf's art? 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

The last one I read was A Light That Never Goes Out, by Tony Fletcher, which is a biography of the Smiths. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z

This biography, though, takes wing only when it treats Bagehot’s role as a banker and financial journalist. The ‘Greatest Victorian’ Is Largely Forgotten. His Biographer Wants to Change That. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

But the prospective film that had come to preoccupy him almost as much as “Gandhi,” a biography of Tom Paine, remained unmade at his death. Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” is just one of fourteen biographies written on the Apple founder, with “The Zen of Steve Jobs” also dedicated to his life and philosophy. Steve Jobs, messiah to jerks: Are we worshiping innovation, or just the freedom to be an a**hole? 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

The fourth installment of James Atlas’s Icons series, Beller’s book is a work of biography as personal quest. Books to Watch Out For: June 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

An excellent new biography by the musicologist Eric Saylor makes clear that the composer — who was born in Gloucestershire on Oct. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

He may have been seeking in the past the seeds of his own biography, as authors of such volumes are prone to do — as all of us, I suspect, are prone to do. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Rex Features What are the perils of biography? The Truth by Michael Palin – review 2012-07-13T21:55:03Z

A graphic biography of Cass Elliot charts the coming of age of an iconic ’60s musician, and the Library of America’s collection of American writing on rock and pop covers a jukebox’s worth of stars. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Updike’s archive may be the last great paper trail,” Adam Begley, a critic and literary journalist now at work on a biography of Updike, said in an e-mail message. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z

Agency Curtis Brown said the biography is set for worldwide publication on Tutu's 80th birthday in October next year. Frankfurt book fair finds publishers in buoyant mood 2010-10-04T11:41:00Z

Comedian Miranda Hart landed the non-fiction prize for Is It Just Me, while broadcaster Claire Balding took home the biography of the year award, seeing off competition from Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell. EL James wins National Book Award 2012-12-04T21:31:50Z

Ezra F. Vogel, author of a new biography of Deng Xiaoping, retired from Harvard University in 2000, but still lives just a few hundred yards from the campus. ArtsBeat Blog: Revisiting Deng Xiaoping: A Word With Ezra F. Vogel 2011-10-21T10:00:12Z

Q: The film follows the theory in the recent biography that he was shot. Willem Dafoe talks about playing van Gogh in ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The National Book Award-winning author of “Waiting” turns to biography to tell the story of Li Bai, the eighth-century Chinese poet, shaped by Taoist thought, who continues to be read in China today. New & Noteworthy 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

A biography of a book, rather than a person, is a relatively new wrinkle in nonfiction. ‘Les Misérables’ is not just a great story — it’s a great publishing story 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Give us a writing tip.In writing biography I think it's important within three months or so of starting preliminary research to decide which parts of your subject's life to home in on. Paperback Q&A: Tim Jeal on Explorers of the Nile 2012-07-10T13:33:42Z

Fortunately, Thomas Dilworth’s new biography, “David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet,” provides an excellent introduction to this multitalented creator’s life and imagination. Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

“Oppenheimer” is Nolan’s prestige movie based on “American Prometheus,” a biography of Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the Manhattan Project, which during World War II produced the first atomic bombs. Mark Your Calendars: ‘Barbenheimer’ Is Coming 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Evan Thomas’s new biography provides valuable insight into how Sandra Day O’Connor shaped American history, most significantly as the first woman appointed to the court. Letters to the Editor 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Below are edited excerpts from the conversation: You write in your acknowledgments that it's a challenge to write "the first biography of someone as complex as David." ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z

This dual biography looks at how the paths of two icons of peaceful resistance intersect. Newly Published, From the World Trade Center to a Cheeto-Loving Crow 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

His three-page program biography, laden with superlatives, begins with the sentence “Choreographer Paul Taylor is the greatest living pioneer of America’s indigenous art of modern dance.” Dance Review: Another Taylor Marathon: They Push Dancers, Don’t They? 2014-03-16T21:23:50Z

That was difficult because I didn’t want to use the biography as a straightjacket. Stewart O'Nan chats about F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'West of Sunset' 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Lewis was persuaded to work on the upcoming graphic biography by Andrew Aydin, then press secretary on his primary campaign, back in 2008. Civil rights hero John Lewis writes graphic autobiography 2013-06-28T11:59:08Z

“It was clear that his bread and butter, which was these big 12/8 ballads, had plateaued,” Jonathan Gould, the author of the recent biography “Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life,” said in an interview. The Enduring Power of Otis Redding’s ‘Dock of the Bay’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Lay is not the usual elite subject of biography. A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

This biography contends that Hughes’s life was cursed in multiple, overlapping ways. Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The very nature of Caine's identity as an actor and his biography in film serves as a form of foreshadowing, just as Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry past informed us in Gran Torino. Harry Brown: A Gran Torino That Drives on the Left 2010-04-29T20:55:00Z

Monk also has an idea of what biography should not be like. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

Gage, a professor of 20th-century American history at Yale, wrote the first major biography of Hoover, the longtime F.B.I. director, in nearly 30 years. Ukrainian Author Andrey Kurkov Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

This presented some serious challenges to her biographer, writer and critic Nancy Princenthal, who published the first full-length biography on the artist last year.  What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

She was more versatile than many of her casual readers realize: alongside her better-known realist novels, she wrote ghost stories, historical fiction, and the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

But she is also the granddaughter of James B. Conant, the subject of her new biography. An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Everett, 49, stars as Sam, a woman whose biography parallels her own, to a point. Bridget Everett Shows Off Her Softer Side. And a Bra. 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

He is working on graphic biographies of Metallica and Guns N’ Roses, and while getting the story right is important, his overarching goal is to do more than that, he said. Part Ramones Biography, Part Dreamscape 2013-08-08T12:00:13Z

Zachary Leader's authorised biography of Bellow is not due for several years. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

The festival from 19 to 22 September launches with a talk by Professor Alister McGrath, who has published a new biography of the author. Festival to mark life of CS Lewis 2013-05-10T10:17:57Z

The winners in the six literary categories — fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry — will be announced March 17 at the New School in New York. Ta-Nehisi Coates is among finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

In the first comprehensive biography of Said, Brennan, a former student, highlights the Palestinian scholar’s complexity, delivering a portrait of a thinker, activist and musician endowed with an unusually restless and protean intellect. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

But to linger on Kirchner’s lurid biography would be unfair to the mesmerizing technical genius of his style, amply on display in this exhibition. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

What makes “On Bowie” unique—what makes it something other than redundant—is its mix of biography and autobiography. Rob Sheffield: “What I love most about David Bowie is that he celebrated the romance of being a fan.” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Whatever its label, this is the kind of nonfiction, along with biography, that I’ve always loved most. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

A cat’s cradle woven from shreds of a woman’s biography, it nonetheless can snare the heart. Review | What inspired sculptor Louise Bourgeois? One novelist takes a guess. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Brands’s new biography tells the story as well as you could ask for in a single volume. The great storyteller’s story 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

It is not a pure biography or history, but an ever-widening gyre of the scandals, art, theory and fashions of the time. Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Can one pick up Volume Two of this biography if one hasn’t read Volume One? The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

This timely, fascinating biography, one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017, examines the issues Ulysses S. Grant faced during the Civil War, and which continue to shape the present day. New in Paperback: ‘Rebellion,’ ‘Grant’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Toibin’s graceful group biography of the men who sired three of Ireland’s greatest writers is, among other things, a study in contrasts. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

“It’s mostly invented conversations and so on,” said Harvey Sachs, the author of a definitive 2017 biography, “Toscanini: Musician of Conscience.” Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

If you expected a David Lynch biography to be just like any other biography, you’ve never seen a David Lynch movie. David Lynch on Michael Jackson and That Crazy Frog From ‘Twin Peaks’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

If “Charlie Chaplin” brings new viewers to Chaplin’s great films, it will have done a service, but there are vastly superior biographies out there. Book review: ‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life,’ by Peter Ackroyd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Carlisle’s probing biography shows how Kierkegaard’s philosophical concerns — chiefly, how to exist in the world — played out in his tortured relationship with the fiancée he abandoned. New & Noteworthy, From Galileo to ‘Dunces’ 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Wollstonecraft’s legacy was trashed for well over a century and even today, despite a number of outstanding modern biographies, there’s still no significant memorial to her anywhere. The original Suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Three books about Joan have been published this month, including two biographies and a novel. | The Koan of Joan 2012-01-06T22:30:09Z

He attributed the decline of the "straight" biography to changing tastes among the public and to fashions in historiography. Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z

During his biography class, the historian asked his students to imagine a man on a tractor, age 25, working in a Texas field in the 1920s. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

“Our biography comic books are now taught in schools and libraries for students and reluctant readers.” A Kurt Cobain Comic Book Is Coming 2014-03-27T18:08:06Z

The biographies, for their part, belong to a new generation of music narratives that appear bent on telling their stories with narrower focus, and within shorter time frames, than classic biopics. Hendrix Biopic at Toronto Festival Bucks a Trend 2013-09-09T12:58:18Z

But many journalists have, in the past week, filled out her biography with details about her career as a writer whose candid and pithy books helped many understand and reckon with addiction and mental illness. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sherlock’ and Carrie Fisher’s ‘Wishful Drinking’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

It is more like one of those biographies of historical figures intended for young readers: accessible, emotionally direct and artfully simplified. ‘Harriet’ Review: Becoming Moses 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

That’s clearest on “The Last Great American Dynasty,” a musical biography of Rebekah Harkness, an heiress with a wild life story who happened to own Swift’s home in Rhode Island. Taylor Swift, a Pop Star Done With Pop 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

This vast new biography sets out to recover Plath from her melodramatic legacy. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

As quoted in David Leaf’s biography of the Beach Boys, Wilson enthused to his then wife that he was going to create “the greatest rock album ever made!” Brian Wilson bringing ‘Pet Sounds’ tour to Paramount 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Despite being openly gay – he figures highly in the Independent's annual pink power list – he has clearly striven to keep the public and private portions of his biography separate. A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner 2010-10-18T07:00:00Z

To start with, it isn’t a “critical” biography: Basbanes pretty much ignores the poetry as poetry and provides no guidance to it. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Some are initially given a short biography and physical description, but none is fully realized. Billy the Kid died young, but the myth can’t be killed 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

“Oates’s reinvention of Faust’s less-than-harrowing biography as dark and painful results in the paradoxical shifting between nightmare and reality that Curtis describes,” Mr. Morgan wrote. ArtsBeat: Joyce Carol Oates Wants To Clear Things Up About 'Mudwoman' 2012-06-08T19:57:02Z

One of the themes of this biography is how the real life intersects with the films. Chris Kyle is a stand-in for Clint: The author of Eastwood’s controversial biography on his new edition, including “American Sniper” and more 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

What I'm hoping is that what will be left is the good biographies. Should traditional biography be buried alongside Shakespeare's breakfast? 2013-02-07T11:45:57Z

At one point, he writes in a parenthetical, “Please note: for the next few paragraphs, this book will be a biography rather than a memoir because I was no longer there.” The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

“To me it was quite operatic,” she says of the biography, adding that, in her mind, “I heard applause as I wrote the book.” The fight between cosmetic legends Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

First, there's her own oft-repeated biography, the archetypal tale of rags to riches, of the provincial grocer's daughter who became the first woman to be the queen's first minister. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z

As the author of a biography of Melville, among other books, Delbanco is a close reader of literature and primary documents, often to revealing effect. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lewisohn believed that the Beatles deserved that approach, and so he set out to write “All These Years,” a three-volume biography that would show the band in its cultural context. ArtsBeat: Tune In, and Turn On the Reading Light 2013-12-27T20:38:53Z

But that’s one of the take-away themes of Norman’s biography: the idea that most of day-to-day life is spent by adapting, by humming along, rather than by standing up and pulling at stars. The fullest biography of Paul McCartney ever 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

As any good biography of a musician should, “In the Midnight Hour” sends us back to the recordings, the best of which have not lost one iota of their power. Hot Tracks: Summer’s Big Books on Rock, Pop, Soul and Jazz 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

David Evanier, who is directly involved with the film as the author of Roselli’s authorised biography, confirmed the casting on Tuesday. John Travolta to play 'the other Sinatra' in film about Jimmy Roselli 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

He’s a former Marine who, according to his biography, has held a long series of blue-collar jobs. ‘Preparation for the Next Life’ by Atticus Lish 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

The biography of Speer, Hitler’s minister of armaments and war production, consumed Ms. Sereny for more than a decade. Gitta Sereny, Who Wrote About Evil, Dies at 91 2012-06-23T22:10:54Z

Deborah Solomon, an art critic, is the author of biographies of Joseph Cornell and Norman Rockwell. Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

It is a previously unreported chapter in the biography of a public figure whose life has been dissected for decades. The Bay Citizen: Family Opened Up the Door to John and Yoko 2010-10-08T04:15:00Z

This is a made-for-television biography of a family, not a movie about television or even a look at how television changed one family in the time of Nixon, Vietnam and “All in the Family.” | 'Cinema Verite': The First Airing of Dirty Laundry 2011-04-21T22:02:46Z

Soon, his face will show up in post offices across the country, his biography on the back of stamp booklets, “immortalized on a limited edition forever stamp,” according to the Postal Service. Does this face look familiar? Valerie Jarrett’s ancestor honored with stamp. 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The award recognises the best non-fiction published in the UK, including biography, travel and popular science, the arts and current affairs. 2010-02-05T09:59:00Z

In addition to her novels, she wrote a series of deft biographies set in the 18th century. The Arbiter of Aristocracy: And No, It’s Not Downton’s Dowager 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

My Olivier Todd biography of Camus had gone. Lost and Found: A Missing Camus Biography and a Christmas Miracle 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Charles R. Cross was editor of the Seattle music magazine The Rocket when Nirvana came up and wrote a biography of Kurt Cobain. EMP | SFM Nirvana exhibit recalls once-in-a-lifetime moment 2011-04-08T23:55:22Z

But after Diana’s candid TV interview and a revealing biography, Philip’s tone allegedly turned sterner and he wrote that she must “fit in” or exit the family. Prince Philip vs Philip of ‘The Crown’: Fact and fiction 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

In 1885, when Susy was 13, she wrote a biography of her father, which was published as Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain. Mark Twain manuscript reveals author's pain at losing his daughter 2010-04-21T21:43:00Z

A biography worthy of classical music’s most idiosyncratic pianist. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Kelley, who wrote the definitive 2009 biography “Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original,” the live recording catches the Monk quartet at a final creative high. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

They were asking him to autograph copies of his biography. ‘Duck Dynasty’ Lures a Growing Audience on A&E 2012-10-07T22:05:13Z

This biography of Picasso focuses on the master’s early life, his days in Montmartre and his creative dueling with Matisse. Best graphic novels of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

To add to the shelf, there is now the authorized biography, “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” by Benjamin Moser, a book as handsome, provocative and troubled as its subject. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The story he told was a loose-jointed personal biography, spanning more than half a century — a classic show business fable of an ambitious hopeful from the sticks who conquers the Big Apple. Review: ‘Tommy Tune, Tonight!’ Is the Musical Autobiography of a Showbiz Trouper 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Most composers' biographies bear out the adage that geniuses are born, not made. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z

The book is the third volume in a project that is as ambitious in its way as Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of Lyndon Johnson. Book Review Podcast: 'The Invisible Bridge' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The real-life characters, famous since birth, have generated enough biographies and magazine covers to fill several royal libraries. How ‘The Crown’ Casts Its Royals 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

I recommend them to read Lytton Strachey's radical biography Eminent Victorians , which advocated change and warned readers against safety and repetition. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

Edna O’Brien, the Irish writer, has written a short biography of James Joyce, the Irish writer, and it is a portrait of a monster. Considering Edna O’Brien’s Portrait of James Joyce 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

And since good biography must critically examine its subject's reputation, biographers are destined to find themselves on a collision course with those looking to protect the image of the subject. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

That’s on the floor, you see; however, on the nightstand, I am more respectable and proudly keep my Dylan Jones biography of dear Bowie. Luis Alberto Urrea: By the Book 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

But unlike the Pollock biography, this book received only a few scathing reviews. Joye Cottage, a Love Story 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

The story, like much else in this accomplished biography, ought to be better known. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

These biographies continue to speak to us because Aubrey, rather than deliver airy eulogies, did the fieldwork: He raked up the small, telling details of his subjects’ lives. You Remember John Aubrey. Chased by Debt Collectors, Chaser of Whores. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

At the same time, we weren’t writing a biography or a drama. Singapore’s History Put to Song 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

And this biography illustrates how Heller’s priceless sense of humor was very much a work in progress as “Catch-22” took shape. Books of The Times: The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers 2011-07-27T22:06:58Z

These days you will find food wherever you look on the bookshelf – in memoir, biography, popular science, academic anthropology, post-colonial studies and, of course, in travel writing. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

The first volume of a timely new biography focuses on Hitler the man, seeing him as a consummate tactician and an actor aware of his audience. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

With furniture, drawings, photographs, textiles, videos and much else, this exhibition forms an immersive visual biography, a fascinating chapter of the British Arts and Crafts movement and a story of relatively benign colonialism. 5 Great Art Exhibitions to See in New York Before They Close 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

This new biography draws on conversations with Wilson and his colleagues, and explores how his research and contributions have led many to consider him Darwin’s successor. 16 New Books Coming in November 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The novel is presented as a biography written by Cicero’s former slave, Tiro, and chronicles his start as a lawyer and aspiring politician. These books lead to Rome 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

This second volume of Leader’s biography begins with Bellow’s ascent to best-sellerdom with “Herzog,” balancing discussions of the author’s work and personal life. New in Paperback: ‘The Life of Saul Bellow’ and ‘The Shades’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Greenside, whose biography positions him as “a civil rights activist, Vietnam War protester, anti-draft counselor … union leader and college professor,” bought a house in Brittany in 1991 on a whim. A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Taymor’s credits and biography were recently deleted from the official “Spider-Man” Web site, and Mr. McKinley is now the only person listed on the site with the title of director. ?Spider-Man? Producers Sue Taymor for Breach 2012-01-17T23:34:03Z

Mr. Colacello gave her a kiss and thanked her for her help republishing his Warhol biography, “Holy Terror,” earlier this year. Night Out With Bob Colacello: A Night Out With Bob Colacello 2014-05-09T20:12:20Z

We learned precious little of his biography in “Breaking Bad,” other than that he is an ex-cop from Philadelphia and a doting grandfather. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Jimmy's Step Toward the Netherworld 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

He was famous, and infamous, for being cruel, both in his books and, as depicted in Patrick French’s excellent biography, “The World Is What It Is,” in his private life. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

A jaundiced critic might sum up these honor-rich biographies with the words of Lewis Carroll’s Dodo: “All must have prizes.” Review | How do you define authenticity? A poetry collection explores a modern problem. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

As a bonus, it also features short illustrated biographies of 30 additional artists. A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

It was a short life, but perhaps too long for the limits of musical biography in the digital era. Hendrix Biopic at Toronto Festival Bucks a Trend 2013-09-09T12:58:18Z

A biography in two acts, “Churchill” is lecture as entertainment. Review: ‘Churchill,’ a One-Man Show at New World Stages 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

“She said, ‘I’d really like to write something about unauthorized biography,’” he recalled. ArtsBeat: Move Over, Alfred Kazin: That's Kitty Kelley Writing in The American Scholar 2010-12-09T21:30:00Z

That these biographies have the same title is not a promising start. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z

Beach continued honing her orchestral voice in the stormily combative Piano Concerto, which Ms. Block’s biography treats as a sonic metaphor for the composer’s struggles for control in her private life. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

And now he gets that place in Vanda Krefft’s new biography, “The Man Who Made the Movies.” The man who saved movies from Thomas Edison’s monopoly 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

These two picture book biographies highlight how two noted female architects were motivated by a love of nature and had to overcome prejudice to make their mark on the world. These books can help build strong girls — and boys — for today’s world 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

V.C. and I, as the biography tells, had the same agent who was responsible for my becoming the ghostwriter and for discovering V.C. V.C. Andrews felt she had "prophetic powers": Longtime ghostwriter on "Flowers in the Attic" author 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

The definitive biography of the great general and misunderstood president, and the book that did more than any other to restore him to the respect he managed to lose over the years. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books

A biography on his Web site says that he had 21 children, 90 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Solomon Burke, Influential Soul Singer, Dies at 70 2010-10-11T05:00:00Z

In the promotional materials for the book, Wigwag somehow got scrubbed from my biography. Wigwag: The Magazine That Lex Built 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Cue the parade of good, bad and touching performances and biographies, with contestants facing serious challenges once again an Idol hallmark. Sniping, Then Singing as American Idol Returns 2013-01-17T15:47:13Z

The most interesting thing about the 1937 film is how much it was rooted in actual biography. Female success and male decline: what A Star Is Born tells us about fame, fear and feminism 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

History, biography, nature explained and unfolded, and even if you don’t care two figs about the migratory patterns of the prothonotary warbler, there’s always the next page-turner. A Bookworm’s Travel Plan 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Our guiding line was never, ever the amount of money that could be made,” he told Eric Lax for his 1991 biography of Allen. Jack Rollins, manager of Woody Allen, Billy Crystal and others, dies at 100 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Bowie, of course, is one of the popular and written-about rock stars in the world, and there are scores of biographies that trace a similar trajectory. Rob Sheffield: “What I love most about David Bowie is that he celebrated the romance of being a fan.” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Harris is 23, according to her online biography by E! Playboy's Hefner gets engaged to a Playmate again 2010-12-26T11:23:00Z

But it may explain why there has never been a Pickett biography until now. Hot Tracks: Summer’s Big Books on Rock, Pop, Soul and Jazz 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Symons’s pioneering 1934 biography, “The Quest for Corvo,” newly reissued by Tartarus Press in a handsome illustrated edition, superbly introduced by Mark Valentine. Review | The ’90s are having a literary moment. That is, the 1890s. . . 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

William Monroe Trotter, who edited the Boston-based black weekly newspaper The Guardian in the first three decades of the 20th century, shows up in the biographies of contemporaries like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

“When historians use biography, they generally either write about very noteworthy people – which was not the case with my father – or they use the lives they are writing about to illustrate some bigger story.” How my family’s history in London hid a revolutionary Russian secret 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

One of the few areas in which this biography does provide a window into Kennedy’s thinking is his abysmal stint as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain. Books of The Times: David Nasaw’s ‘Patriarch,’ on Joseph P. Kennedy 2012-11-29T21:09:38Z

Rockefeller has been the subject of at least 10 previous biographies, including a widely praised one by Cary Reich, who died in 1998 after completing the first volume, which ended with Rockefeller’s election as governor. Richard Norton Smith Dissects Nelson Rockefeller 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

In the monumental film biography of Lawrence that Mr. Korda does his best not to mention, this is the very famous “Aqaba — from the land!” moment. Books Of the Times: Lawrence: Fresh Look at Warrior of Desert 2010-11-21T22:37:00Z

The first full biography of President Reagan since his death. 30 books for spring reading 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

A series about George Floyd’s life and a forthcoming biography grew out of brainstorming sessions that Ginsberg conducted, they said. Steven Ginsberg named managing editor of The Washington Post, rounding out senior management team 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

This biography comes to weird, florid life in its middle sections. Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Two more vintage photography books are now in the works, he said, a full-length biography of Williams and an examination of wildly inventive French stereoscopic work from around the same period. Village Green, Preserved: Brian May?s Photo Recovery 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z

Some of her work was used in subsequent published biographies, but this movie’s director, James Erskine, acquired the rights to her entire collection, and “Billie” is the first project he derived from it. ‘Billie’ Review: A Legend, in a Different Light 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

“Everything that could have happened for this show has happened, and today is the capstone,” the historian Ron Chernow, whose biography of Hamilton inspired the show, said before the performance, the musical’s sixth preview. Starring on Broadway, Obama and Alexander Hamilton 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

Each of her flappers has already been the subject of multiple biographies and one – Diana Cooper – was an acclaimed memoirist. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-01T10:01:01Z

This biography covers the best-known works of the architect Louis Kahn as well as his complicated personal life. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

There are five category winners bidding to win the £30,000 main prize – that means pitting poetry against biography, first novel, children's book and novel. Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies wins Costa prize after unanimous vote 2013-01-29T20:33:00Z

In “A Man of Misconceptions,” the first general-interest biography of Kircher, Mr. Glassie draws on three decades of renewed scholarly interest in his work to deliver a stirring if sometimes backhanded defense. Books of The Times: ‘A Man of Misconceptions’ by John Glassie 2012-12-30T21:22:10Z

She is famously private, so it’s no simple task to write her biography. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

This thoughtful biography is among the best about the musician, tracing Reed’s development into a transgressive artist. New in Paperback: ‘Lou Reed,’ ‘The King Is Always Above the People’ 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Not people dying young, mind you, but short biographies of prominent artists, thinkers and politicians. Alfred Hitchcock: ‘A superb fantasist of fear’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

But as the subtitle — “Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library” — doesn’t quite say, this is, in fact, a biography of that son, Hernando Colón. Review | The story of Christopher Columbus’s son, the ultimate completist 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Edward White’s sleek and modest “The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock” does not offer grand revelation but a provocative new way of thinking about biography. The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

"It's not a music concert film or a rock biography. Nick is staging real behaviour in fictional spaces, and this creates something new." Nick Cave becomes reluctant film star 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Still, they were fiercely competitive, said Michael Shnayerson, author of “The Contender,” an unauthorized biography of Andrew that was published in 2015. Loyalty to family — instead of CNN — puts Cuomo at risk 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

In the six years since his death in Madrid, at the age of 83, Francis Bacon has been the subject of three biographies, at least four major posthumous retrospectives and a host of smaller exhibitions. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z

Mr. Smith and Mr. Naifeh had said that their early commercial work gave them the financial resources to pursue their true passion, the Pollock biography. Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Dies at 62 2014-04-14T04:57:45Z

In an era shaped by charismatic salesmen like Donald Trump, a cleareyed biography of Barnum would be both enlightening and timely. A Huckster for the Ages 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

There’s something telling about the fact that “Our Man,” George Packer’s hefty, dishy biography of the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, clocks in at more than 500 pages without the courtesy of an index. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Richard Holbrooke 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

The film functions in part as critical biography, comparing conflicting sides of a personality more complicated than evil. Bully, coward, victim? Inside the sinister world of Trump mentor Roy Cohn 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Hank took over the record, but the Babe is getting the ink — four new biographies. Review: Books About Babe Ruth 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

You’re right, there are many biographies of Fitzgerald and this might not be the easiest one to get hold of but I am interested in it because Mizener was Fitzgerald’s first biographer. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

The Undiscovered Country is weighted as a voyage through time, by way of legends, brief biographies, and character sketches. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z

David Brock, formerly a conservative journalist, is the bizarro version of Mr. Morris — he wrote an unflattering biography of Mrs. Clinton, later recanted, and now runs a PAC that counters attacks on Mrs. Clinton. Dick Morris Takes Aim at Hillary Clinton From a Tabloid Perch 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

The book, one of the great American biographies, is profound, huge in scope, and fast-paced. Review | The best new audiobooks for your Thanksgiving drive 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Eig’s is the first comprehensive biography of King in three decades. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

As this beguiling new biography explains, Harry Truman seemed like an ordinary man, but he had the native self-confidence that marks a person as a leader. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Without the excitement of seeing creativity develop and personality emerge and with the fight for success and independence already won, there’s less inherent drama in Part 2 of an artist’s biography. Review: ‘David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012’ by Christopher Simon Sykes 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

By anchoring the book on these five historical figures — each of them brilliant, complicated and fascinating — Kendi renders this work of intellectual history as compelling as the juiciest biography. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

They shared ideas, sensibilities and, above all, a common thread of biography. Why did Robert Rauschenberg's art burn out? 2011-08-02T15:04:53Z

The pages devoted to George Eliot, about whom Hughes has published an entire book, focus on how family members wanted the novelist depicted in biographies. Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The book critic Ruth Franklin won the biography prize for “Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life,” her study of Ms. Jackson’s life and work. Louise Erdrich, Matthew Desmond Among Winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

It may not be a true novel or his full biography but it is certainly an eloquent epitaph. Paul Theroux on a Globetrotting Novel Inspired by a Real Adventurer 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

“I’d like to have the fortune,” he said in his biography, “but I don’t care too much about the fame.” J.J. Cale, Musician and Songwriter, Dies at 74 2013-07-27T20:34:33Z

The biographies keep coming, and there’s a great deal we know about Shakespeare’s interactions with institutions of various kinds. Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z

David S. Brown begins his calm, eloquent biography of Henry Adams, historian and man of letters, with his subject’s own words: “I’ve outlived at least three quite distinct worlds since 1838.” Review | The best new audiobooks: Tales of deception, suspense — and some history 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

The biography prize went to Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, a memoir about about how becoming a falconer helped her deal with grief after her father's death. English teacher is Costa's top poet 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

In a typical episode, Sirota guides the listener through the life of a composer, interweaving discussions of biography, influences, and compositional craft. Q2 Music’s Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

Her biography of Wharton resembles a Wharton novel, with a lot of richly furnished rooms: the French room, the Italian room, the Henry James room. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

Across the years, novels, plays, biographies, films, songs, operas, ballets and comic books have told her story. | The Koan of Joan 2012-01-06T22:30:09Z

Instead of character development, TV news reports interrupt the story to provide potted biographies of the lost souls. Review | Mitch Albom serves up another helping of superficial spirituality 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Over the past 200 years these and similar claims have hardened into fact and have become enshrined in popular biographies. A Scholarly Analysis of Shakespeare’s Life That Reads Like a Detective Story 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

Smith says she has given more than 100 talks across the United States for her biography of Prince Charles, published in 2017. The British royal family is struggling through scandals. Can ‘The Crown’ help? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Ellmann was one of the great literary critics of the last century and his biography, though long, implies a great deal more than it says. James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker - review 2011-08-05T21:55:01Z

And all those other reality-TV factors–charisma, biography, personal attachment–do matter, as they do on Idol. Voice of America: What The Voice’s Shocker Elimination Says About the Show and the Audience 2013-05-30T15:11:42Z

Professor de La Grange began earning his scholarly credentials in 1973 when, after 15 years of research, he published Volume I of his biography, simply titled “Gustav Mahler.” Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler Authority, Is Dead at 92 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

He reads Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, and the wheels start turning ... A 'Hamilton' timeline: How a single song grew into a global musical juggernaut 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

The show – a mixture of biography, anecdote and Pinter's poetry – almost certainly belongs in the lecture theatre rather than the dramatic theatre, or perhaps in a literary tent or on Radio 4. A Celebration of Harold Pinter ? review 2011-08-10T17:45:01Z

He's trying to ghostwrite a biography, much as the writers of "Station Eleven" are trying to touch upon — but not get too close to, that might be uncomfortable — the story of a disabled person. Frank deserves better than "Station Eleven." So do disabled stories 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

He's also eager to start on his next writing project: a biography of his mother, the legendary dancing star of "Born to Dance" and "Broadway Melody of 1940." Glenn Ford remembered as great actor, flawed dad 2011-07-01T20:25:03Z

She locks herself in her room, at times laughing raucously, talking loudly to possibly nonexistent people, working away at her celebrity ghost biographies. Friendship or Identity Theft? In This French Best Seller, It’s Hard to Tell. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Her account seems "quite credible," said Robert Dallek, whose Kennedy biography made a passing reference to a college sophomore who was a favorite of the president's. JFK intern recounts long-ago affair in new book 2012-02-13T08:02:09Z

Queen Elizabeth fears that Britain will be shocked by the different style of monarchy Prince Charles is planning, according to a new biography of her heir apparent. Queen Elizabeth fears Britain not ready for 'King Charles': new book 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

When we praise biographies, we often praise stamina and thoroughness, a kind of density of detail — the subject seems to live again. ‘Pessoa’ Is the Definitive and Sublime Life of a Genius and His Many Alternate Selves 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

In “David Bowie: A Life,” so many people have so much to say about Bowie that, as a biography, it never settles on an overarching interpretation of the man. David Bowie: Plagiarist, visionary or saint? 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

In the prelude to Nina Sankovitch’s compelling group biography, “The Lowells of Massachusetts,” the poet Amy Lowell has just died and her lover Ada Dwyer Russell builds a bonfire to burn Amy’s letters. Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Those groaning shelves of research books have earned her a reputation as the go-to designer for period costumes, with revivals of Shaw, Maugham, Williams, O’Neill and Molière taking up a large chunk of her biography. A Lifetime Tony for the Costume Designer Jane Greenwood 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The presentation will include a sneak peek at “Genius,” a forthcoming movie starring Colin Firth based on Berg’s biography “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius,” which won a 1978 National Book Award. Expanded media coverage of this year’s National Book Festival 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

He wrote the authorised Paul McCartney biography as well as books on Frank Zappa and other rock'n'roll heroes. Counterculture books 2011-02-23T12:01:21Z

Periodically Holmes also comments on how biographies both interpret their subjects and reflect their authors. An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit,’ by Richard Holmes 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Salinger, an oral biography compiled by author David Shields and filmmaker-screenwriter Shane Salerno, whose screenplay credits include the Oliver Stone film Savages. New J.D. Salinger Book and Film Coming Within Next Year 2013-01-29T22:58:40Z

I didn’t want the project to be limited by my biography. Tejal Rao’s 10 Essential Indian Recipes 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Bereft of money, home and family, Felix could use a big project to rehabilitate himself, and for his own mysterious reasons, Woody wants Felix to write a flattering biography of the Angel computer hacker. Book review: ‘Amnesia,’ Peter Carey’s novel about cybercrime 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Prince was “the most important single figure” in Mr. Sondheim’s career, Meryle Secrest wrote in her biography of the storied composer. ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and More: Hal Prince’s Hits Transformed Broadway 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

A series of writing projects followed, which lead to Petty asking Zanes to write the biography. What It Was Like Writing Tom Petty’s Life Story 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Women don’t really show up, except as robots, until the rise of the “It Girl” in Hollywood, a subject thoroughly explicated last year in a biography of her creator, Elinor Glyn. Becoming ‘Self-Made’ Stars in a Secular Age 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

It’s not really a biography, more like a discography. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

To write about men, let alone gods, still seems too risky; the first novel he published after the controversy was the biography of a goat. A Novel That Roiled India Is Now Translated Into English 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

In the years to come, another 1,900 Washington biographies would be published. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Third, “Cross of Snow” will attract those who like capacious biographies that emphasize primary materials. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Don Shirley left no memoir, and no biography of him exists. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Don Cheadle depicts Miles Davis, the towering jazz trumpeter and composer brought down by drugs and fury, in this biography, which Mr. Cheadle also directed and helped write. What’s on TV Wednesday 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The autobiography / biography category includes Great British Bake-Off expert Mary Berry, alongside comedy actor David Jason, and Jennifer Saunders, whose Bonkers: My Life In Laughs recounts her treatment for breast cancer in unflinching detail. Bridget Jones up for book award 2013-11-18T17:43:12Z

But it seems kind of wacky to forage for the locus of this mess in the Hart affair – as opposed to, say, Roger Ailes’ biography or the invention of the internet. The Front Runner: the truth behind Hugh Jackman's scandalous new film 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

In between are more than 650 pages of fast-paced if harsh biography. Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

A longtime associate of the Dalai Lama provides the most detailed biography to date, exploring the 84-year-old’s life on the world stage and his life inside the world of Tibetan Buddhism. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

What musical theater buff paging through Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton would have come to the end of the book and exclaimed, "This has got to be a hip-hop musical!" Tonys 2015: Meet the biggest hit maker on Broadway 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

It should be the title of his biography, when someone gets around to writing it. Books of The Times: ?Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms,? by Richard Fortey 2012-04-12T19:42:43Z

Here’s the real story, as related in Stanley Crouch’s recent biography of Parker, “Kansas City Lightning.” “Whiplash” Gets Jazz All Wrong 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Any admirer of Penelope Fitzgerald’s work — or, for that matter, any passionate reader — will enjoy this capacious, masterly biography. Michael Dirda reviews ‘Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life,’ by Hermione Lee 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The O’Connors’ marriage is at the heart of this biography, and it’s nothing less than a great love story. An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

So much so that Mr. Guha, the author of “India After Gandhi,” has devoted his new book, the first of a projected two-part biography, to this early part of his life. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Ms. Gary has written a biography of Margaret Wise Brown, “In the Great Green Room,” drawing on an earlier biography by Leonard S. Marcus and on material she found in Brown’s papers. A New Phase of ‘Goodnight Moon’? 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

After a long and painful recovery, he married Nancy Nicholson, had four children and wrote a popular biography of his friend T. E. Lawrence, whom he met while teaching at Oxford. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Writing an exculpatory biography about the young computer criminal will be an audacious and dangerous literary stunt, but it also promises to bring Felix back in touch with the girl’s mother. Book review: ‘Amnesia,’ Peter Carey’s novel about cybercrime 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Waltz, the music historian, and Woody Sullivan, an astronomy professor from the University of Washington, are currently undertaking a critical biography of Herschel that combines science with music. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

In this regard, Clarke joins several contemporary English writers whose works brilliantly mix group biography, history and literary criticism. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Gordon-Reed called the Johnson biography on the website "a pretty positive assessment" that "follows the line that the Radical Republicans were the villains." Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z

It was only when I became a parent myself that I began to scrutinise my biography and wonder which bits would best be kept to myself. How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

The biggest problem with this biography is perhaps that it works too well as an advertisement for the volume of collected correspondence that I hope will one day be published. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace – review 2012-08-30T07:00:41Z

Two new biographies re-evaluate major political figures: “Lioness” examines the life of Golda Meir and her role in Zionism and Israel; and “President McKinley” brings an often overlooked president out of the shadows. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Raykovitz is a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist, according to his biography on the website of the MidStep Centers for Child Development, where he once had a part-time practice. Sandusky calls incidents in shower 'horseplay' 2011-11-15T01:01:00Z

First, it pitches children's literature, novels, debut novels, biography and poetry against each other – notoriously, presenting judges with a marked challenge. Who should win the Costa? 2011-01-25T16:23:35Z

While he wrote many biographies of admirable figures — among them George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin — Mr. Giblin came to focus increasingly on malefactors. James Cross Giblin, 82, Wide-Ranging Author of Books for Children, Dies 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The real Chris Sievey was, at the end of the last decade, impoverished and ill with throat cancer, but he knew about the film as well as the biography. 'Frank' Riffs on the Pop Curiosity Frank Sidebottom 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Margaret Drabble, who wrote Bennett's biography, believes upper middle class snobbery at a lower class provincial writer was part of it. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

This book concludes Richardson’s four-volume biography of Picasso, and comes two years after Richardson’s death. 5 New Biographies to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Alter is at work on a biography of Jimmy Carter with the full cooperation of the former president, publisher Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday. Jimmy Carter biography in the works by Jonathan Alter 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

In their biography, they produce a nuanced portrait of a shy, good-natured and troubled man who dreamed of becoming an athlete but had to contend with “the cruel reality of growing up Black and poor.” Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Most oddly, the musical makes room for another strand that provides the long biography of a rock in Central Park that’s a favorite spot of Lindsay’s, related by a young boy played by Giovanni Cozic. Review: In ‘Up Here,’ Boy (and All His Inner Demons and Angels) Meets Girl 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

In fact, the true subject of her dual biography is more ambitious: the contrast between good and evil. 'Dietrich & Riefenstahl' raises questions of good and evil 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The action moves back and forth between biography — Justin as an adorable toddler brought up by his feisty, faithful teen mom in a small Ontario town — and concert footage. Never Say Never: A Mom Learns to Love the Bieber 2011-02-11T11:00:00Z

He destroyed his daily working notes and family trees for “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” according to Gerald Martin’s 2009 biography. Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Goes to University of Texas 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

“Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation” is a new biography from Robert Wilson, the editor of The American Scholar. Books of The Times: ‘Mathew Brady,’ a Biography by Robert Wilson 2013-08-07T21:29:29Z

No figure is more closely tied to our notions of the Confederacy than Robert E. Lee, and Freeman’s epic biography, first published in four volumes in the mid-1930s, remains the fullest portrait. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Throughout his analysis, Makari brings an impressive range of reading to bear, wearing his learning lightly and interspersing fascinating capsule biographies of transformational figures,” Thomas Chatterton Williams writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The concerto’s second edition didn’t come about until 1970, according to Nancy B. Reich’s biography “Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman.” Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

With biographies, an atlas, and other reference materials, Factmonster is an informative place for kids to find fun facts and play educational games. 10 websites all kids should bookmark 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

It was a thorough biography that cut through the carefully cultivated image that the director had sought to project and delved into his harsh treatment of some of his stars and other unflattering details. Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Gender also figured prominently in the book that won for best biography: Charlotte Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley profiled the two early feminists. 'The Sellout' Wins National Book Critics Circle Award 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Moses’ actual demeanor and utterance, as portrayed in the nearly 1,300 pages of Robert Caro’s biography “The Power Broker,” are little in evidence at the Hudson Yards theater. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

It seemed that a biography couldn't do what I wanted this book to do: not just investigate detective fever but recreate it. Guardian book club: Kate Summerscale on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 2013-01-11T20:00:11Z

I wasn’t interested in doing a biography of Stephen Hawking. Five top film directors on tipsy chats, mysterious packages and more 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

In West's case, this instinctive association of biography with romantic secrets is apt. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z

I am writing Penelope Fitzgerald's biography, and her family has trustingly let me loose on those materials of hers that they still possess. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

Among living subjects of biography, such a response is all too common. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Pivi is translating an ideal into real people, and each mask represents a case study in an individual’s biography of freedom. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

His “group biography” of seven classic games — checkers, chess, Go, backgammon, poker, Scrabble and bridge — is in many ways an interrogation of these questions: Are games more than their rules and playing pieces? It’s Just a Game. Or Is It? 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

His biography, therefore, serves as a chronicle of Silicon Valley, of late 20th- and early 21st-century technology, and of American innovation at its best. 'Steve Jobs' delves deep into complex man's life 2011-10-24T13:43:50Z

Here what I said about the soul returns: The reanimation that biography involves is deeply and necessarily collaborative. About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

She had to sort through precisely what to call herself because she didn’t want to offend someone by shunning a description or offend someone else by claiming a particular biography that wasn’t hers. Samira Nasr, a fashion first at Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I just want to bring more people with me to the party’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Lovell, who has written entertaining biographies of the Mitford and Churchill families, knows how to render sly appraisals of her often complicated subjects. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Wright, whose idiosyncratic bookshelf biography of Oscar Wilde, Oscar's Books, was much praised, has written a concise, skilful and often eloquent book, though it is marred by the absence of any source notes. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z

Her biography is not the first we have of Kahn, but it is notable for its warm, engaged, literate tone and its psychological acuity. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

In a new biography, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan strive to bring into focus the elusive figure of the artist himself. Review | Francis Bacon was an elusive figure. A new biography presents novel details of his iconoclastic existence. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The essays — more than 200 in all, including pieces on multiple artists — are part biography, part career overview, focusing on the singers' highs and lows while tossing in bits of fun trivia. 'A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers': The lowdown on great singers 2010-12-08T23:58:00Z

Jon Meacham, the best-selling author of a number of biographies as well as “The Soul of America,” a celebration of American democratic values, opens “His Truth Is Marching On” in a hagiographic vein. Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Cosby's intended show-business comeback — including a new biography, planned television shows and the prestige of an art exhibition at a national museum — went up in flames. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kaplan won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1967 for his first book, “Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain,” published the year before. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z

The third type of new biography identified by the UEA conference concerns "the life in parts". The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z

The new exhibition aims to supplement those brief mentions with biographies, photos, articles and more, she said. The Queer Cultures That the Nazis Destroyed 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Curiously, Mr. Brands appears to make no use of T. J. Stiles’s masterly and deeply researched 2009 Vanderbilt biography, “The First Tycoon.” Books of The Times: How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z

“In the end, however, it adds little and omits a great deal from the earlier biography.” Paul Robeson Jr., Activist and Author, Dies at 86 2014-04-28T03:33:44Z

If he does lose his temper, he is quick to apologise, according to the biography. David Cameron's 'chillaxing' hobbies revealed in new biography 2012-05-19T10:46:51Z

He is working on a biography of George Michael. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

“We had our nerd level interest and understanding of “Star Wars” movies — character biographies, home planets and character motivation,” said Mr. Schlicht. Romance Around the Great Lakes 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

It’s just that the connections between his life and his poetry are, in his own words, “very close but oblique,” which makes him a particularly tricky subject for a literary biography. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Robert D. Richardson’s first-rate biography is the place to start. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Jones, whose biography notes that he formed his first jazz band when he was 12, needed no sympathy vote. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z

“It was an important source for Picasso,” said Mr. Richardson, who recently heard about the book while at work on the fourth and final volume of his series of Picasso biographies and tracked it down. ‘Picasso & the Camera,’ John Richardson’s Latest Show 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a tricky balance to find: a combination of biography, history and literary essay, based on two lives already more than thoroughly documented. ‘Careless People’: the true story that inspired ‘Gatsby’ 2014-02-05T21:18:30Z

Weller’s biography seems to still shiver with the pain so many people expressed upon learning of Fisher’s death. Review | A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Whether biography is accounting for a bigger bite than usual of the festival’s 300 or so films is difficult to tell. Roman Polanski and Graham Chapman Biopics at Toronto 2012-09-11T22:01:26Z

“The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved” by Jonathan Fenby is a thorough and detailed biography. The Legacy De Gaulle Left in London 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

But the White House biographies offer an unusual history lesson. Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z

At 14 he wrote a biography of Rembrandt that he illustrated with his own drawings copied from Rembrandt’s work. Inside Art : P.S. 1 and MoMA Change a Name 2010-04-29T20:58:00Z

For his part, Roth had encouraged, then scuttled, a biography by his friend Ross Miller, a literature professor. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

His biography is a rags-to-riches tale: a Hispanic who grew up in New York City, a Vietnam War medic with two Purple Hearts, a deputy sheriff as well as a doctor. Auction claims to be selling vial of Reagan blood 2012-05-22T15:16:00Z

In this upbeat biography of Rudy Ray Moore, the record store clerk turned entertainer and his stage persona Dolemite, the actor slips nimbly into character. Eddie Murphy’s Latest Look Is Ripe for Appropriation 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

"To reduce a movement to a biography," he writes, "is to cut a piece away from what made it of interest in the first place." The Beach Beneath the Street by McKenzie Wark ? review 2011-08-18T09:00:01Z

Brilliantly combining biography and history, Deborah Baker’s “The Last Englishman” dwells on a loose literary and scientific circle during the final throes of the British Empire in India. Review | The best audiobooks to listen to this month 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Anyway, Richardson's Life is by far the most famous biography of Picasso. Picasso – separating truth and fiction 2013-07-10T14:32:55Z

“Mr. Wright’s biography replaces the saintly, often fictive Lillian Hellman of her memoirs with a flawed, real-life Lillian Hellman.” William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

She's written a book about the role of women in the Civil War, and also authored a biography of Henry Knox. Meet the writer behind the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac 2012-03-31T05:43:34Z

Then, as I pursued the sketch of his biography, I found this: in 2007, the Brooklyn Academy of Music asked him to programme a series of eight films. David Thomson on Paul Giamatti 2011-01-13T23:00:00Z

Throughout, however, the biography is judicious on topics that often inspire hyperbole and mystification. Who Is the Dalai Lama? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The book settles for broadly drawn psychosexual farce instead of deeper examination of the arts of fiction and biography. Reviews: New Books From Thomas McGuane, Hanif Kureishi and More 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

In “Milestones,” a magisterial two-volume biography of Davis, Jack Chambers puts the “Elevator to the Gallows” soundtrack recording into historical perspective, citing the use of jazz scores as a trend in the mid-to-late nineteen-fifties. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

"I want to elect the next president," he told Fox executives at a 2010 meeting, according to the 2014 biography "The Loudest Voice in the Room" by Gabriel Sherman, a writer for New York magazine. Scandal-plagued Fox News founder Roger Ailes dead at 77 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

She wrote two biographies of her parents, members of the Southern Presbyterian Mission who were ardently devoted to their work. A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades 2013-05-21T21:00:02Z

Ozturk and Wilkinson devote some of the film’s running time to the biography of one of their mountaineering heroes, the explorer and photographer Bradford Washburn. ‘The Sanctity of Space’ Review: Such Great Heights 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

It is not a documentary, a biography or a fill-in-the-gaps exercise like “The Crown,” either. ‘Spencer’ star Kristen Stewart is done hiding her life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Now seventy-six, Rupp told me recently that she was not seeking traces of her own biography in the small towns she visited. Two and a Half Decades Observing Life in Rural America 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Perhaps appropriately for a biography of a man who often failed to read his own times very well, the historical background here is rather broadbrush, with dates and details sometimes scrambled. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z

The biography becomes a bestseller and the catalyst for nationwide interest in this American Founding Father and first U.S. A 'Hamilton' timeline: How a single song grew into a global musical juggernaut 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Some who advocate this worry that too much biography can spoil our appreciation of the art. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Rejecting both linear chronology and the frame-and-flashback template of most movie biographies, Mr. Sorkin concentrates on three crucial moments in Jobs’s career. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

According to Rodge Glass's biography, Gray is a typesetter's nightmare, and working with him is "like being a sandcastle fighting the sea". Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray - review 2012-11-14T08:00:03Z

In his thoroughgoing new biography, “David Bowie: Starman,” the British rock journalist Paul Trynka considers at length the startling androgyny that made Mr. Bowie a defining human being of the 1970s. Books of The Times: David Bowie, the Cool Chameleon From Mars 2011-07-21T22:10:17Z

So it’s appropriate that Luna’s film stumbles a little with the sweeping moments in this intimate biography passed off as larger-than-life epic. ‘Cesar Chavez’: a noble portrait of the civil-rights leader 2014-03-26T18:56:20Z

It’s the stuff of a thousand Hollywood biographies, and although Shepard is a solid, conscientious actor, his work in the movies pales in comparison to his extraordinary accomplishments as a playwright. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

This is an adept volume — a sort of “Chaplin 101” — but it breaks little new ground and cannot be compared to the searching full biographies by David Robinson and the late Kenneth S. Lynn. Book review: ‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life,’ by Peter Ackroyd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Besides profiling her three subjects, Kaplan serves up a compelling biography of Paris itself. 'Dreaming in French': the transformative power of Paris 2012-04-25T20:12:09Z

Connecting the songs was a running biography of Cassidy’s life that painted her as a fiercely independent artist who stubbornly resisted being marketed as one thing or another. Review: In Tribute to Eva Cassidy, Rebekah Lowin Gives New Personality to Standards 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Everybody else can commemorate the day by buying and reading Kevin Birmingham’s terrific new “biography” of Ulysses, “The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses.” 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

But "Page One" only lightly touches on his biography, instead relying on him to act as defender of traditional journalism, which he does with wry aplomb. 'Page One': Capturing the moment when newspapers became news 2011-06-30T19:37:07Z

Along with historical accounts of the city’s fogs, Corton’s “biography” looks closely at their representation in art and literature. “London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Brown ignores all the starchy obligations of biography and adopts a form of his own to trap the past and ensnare the reader — even this reader, so determinedly indifferent to the royals. Beauty, Bad Temper and Scandal in a Riveting Look at Princess Margaret 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Sarah Rudinoff, a Seattle stage-musical veteran with a powerhouse voice, will read from Karen Abbott's new biography, "American Rose — A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee." Centennial tribute to Seattle-born Gypsy Rose Lee 2011-01-05T20:52:04Z

As recently as last summer, Trump acknowledged never having read a presidential biography. John Dean experienced Watergate from inside. He’s watching Donald Trump closely. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

There is no hard evidence for this theory, and it is laid out, discreetly, in an appendix to this biography. Books of The Times: ?Van Gogh: The Life,? by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith 2011-10-20T21:57:30Z

Thomas Blood, to quote this biography’s subtitle, was the 17th-century Irish “spy who stole the Crown Jewels and became the king’s secret agent.” A summer book list like no other: Michael Dirda picks 11 hidden gems 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

“James seemed like the perfect guy for the time,” his friend Kortchmar told Timothy White, who wrote the 2001 Taylor biography “Long Ago and Far Away.” James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

It was the best known book by Groom, who grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1965, according to a biography posted by the university. ‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dead at 77 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

I came to Mizener fairly late, so I had read the more recent biographies first, as well as his letters. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

His oral biography of Mailer was bristly and blood warm, like a freshly killed wild boar. Books of The Times: A Murder Trial to Cover, Axes to Grind 2011-07-07T21:30:32Z

Not only did he say that but his wife, Linda Lee, said that in her first biography I ever read. Quentin Tarantino defends "Hollywood" Bruce Lee fight from claims it mocks the late action star 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Lim’s short, informative and brightly written biography about a man once characterized as “Jimmy Stewart from Mars” is also about the post-1960s United States. ‘David Lynch: The Man From Another Place’ review 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

A group of 75 stitchers from across the U.S. and beyond worked together to construct the two quilts and a website containing biographies of each victim. ‘A way we resist’: Quilts honor victims of racial violence 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

An Eccentric Life, From Polio to Punk Great musicians have uniquely fascinating lives, but their film biographies are all alike. | 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll': Andy Serkis Stars in Ian Dury?s Punk-Rock Story 2010-05-04T22:55:00Z

Dr. Brinkley is first seen as a barefoot teenager, begging for admission to Johns Hopkins University, a detail gleaned from Clement Wood’s 1934 biography, which the movie’s credits name as a primary source. Review: ‘Nuts!’ Reveals Doctor’s Secret to Success: Goat Testicle Transplants 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Singer and drag artist Joey Arias sees this Meltdown as a kind of biography of both Antony and the scene that nurtured him. Antony Hegarty's Meltdown: New York pioneers who walked on the wild side 2012-07-28T23:05:37Z

The couturier’s maverick approach is reflected, often to haunting effect, in “Yves Saint Laurent,” the film biography that arrived this week on screens across the country. In the ‘Yves Saint Laurent’ Film Biography, a Look at His Models 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

St. Vincent: I believe in the axiom that you can only write what you know which doesn’t disallow for imagination— it’s art, it’s not biography; it’s art, it’s not a historical timeline. St. Vincent Talks Her New Album 'MASSEDUCTION' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

“I felt I had two choices,” Hayes writes: “a rigorously researched biography or a rigorously imagined biography.” In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

But "Laramie Project" is a biography of a community, not one individual. Review: 'The Laramie Project' paints public, private face of grieving community 2010-07-16T15:34:00Z

There’s poetry: a pointillistic biography of Emily Dickinson, and a new collection by Natalie Diaz that tackles desire and translation and more. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Fletcher’s account of how Pickett came to record “Hey Jude” is one of many fascinating stories in this meticulously researched biography. Hot Tracks: Summer’s Big Books on Rock, Pop, Soul and Jazz 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

As Jonathan Bikker, author of a new biography published in conjunction with the Rijskmuseum exhibition, explains, the Dutch museum took much of the 20th century to pull together its collection. Review | The Rijksmuseum displayed ‘all the Rembrandts,’ and crowds went crazy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Honan wrote five major biographies in the last four decades, including books on Jane Austen and Shakespeare. Park Honan, a Biographer of Authors, Is Dead at 86 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the biggest challenge of writing a Gorey biography is that Mr. Gorey, by his own admission, was a man to whom nothing happened. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

And Rice followed her suggestion, going on to craft 1,056 pages that led readers through a highly detailed account of generations of witches that felt more like a biography than a novel. With "Mayfair Witches," Anne Rice put a fresh, southern spin on the spellcasters we thought we knew 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

The musical is the result of nearly two decades of work by Christopher Smith, a onetime police officer who was moved by a biography of Mr. Newton and set about transforming it into a musical. The Musical 'Amazing Grace' to Open on Broadway This Summer 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

In the biography, Bailey identifies her by the pseudonym Mona. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

He and his publisher learned that an unauthorized biography, by the writer Lisa Rogak, was scheduled to appear on July 21. Alex Trebek Is Still in the Game 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Penrose later wrote a biography of Picasso that is a monument to this hero worship. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z

What the 80-minute evening does is remind you of the fractured sensibility underlying Dr Johnson's dogmatic roughness and of the anecdotal richness of Boswell's great biography. A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson ? review 2011-03-09T01:20:25Z

Though his biography is unauthorized, he’s had more cooperation from the notoriously protective Arbus estate than Ms. Bosworth did and access to material she did not have. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

And this book, immense in every sense, is both a formal study and a critical biography, a collaborative endeavor and a tribute. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

His biography has been chronicled and relationships charted between his photographs and everything from classical Greek and Roman sculpture to Andy Warhol's Pop art. How Robert Mapplethorpe went from America's pariah to America's sweetheart 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

New biographies, particularly Gordon Bowker’s, have removed the halo and revealed a Joyce who was, for all his genius, all too human. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style

His father was an amateur accordion player, but Dural preferred playing the organ as a child, according to a biography on his website. U.S. zydeco music star Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural dies at 68 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

“We were fed up with being the Beatles,” he said in Barry Miles’ biography “Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now.” “Sgt. Pepper’s” at 50: was it a concept album or an identity crisis? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

The short biographies, or “vignettes,” dropped between chapters sketch a relationship between a physical book and its owner. When You Can’t Afford a Jane Austen Original 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The first was “The Emperor of All Maladies,” a biography of cancer that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

But do keep your questions to a minimum and let the poor woman get back to work: her 1,056-page biography is just the first volume of all things Stanwyck. Movie Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:00:08Z

Generally, though, more attention is paid to his creativity than his biography. Come Inside My Mind: star-studded documentary honors Robin Williams 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The celebration coincides with a revealing new biography, “Piet Mondrian: A New Art for a Life Unknown,” by Hans Janssen, a Dutch art historian and curator. Mondrian’s World: From Primary Colors to the Boogie Woogie 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

The opening pages of any biography are often tedious, unless you are a fan of family genealogies and, in this case, overlong descriptions of the Yorkshire landscape. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

This biography of the critic, editor and author of the highly regarded 12-volume novel of bohemian and upper-class life in early- and mid-20th–century England is also an in-depth look at London’s literary scene. New in Paperback: ‘Presidents of War’ and ‘Solitary’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is impossible not to think, reading this illuminating and compelling biography, that Pearl Buck had the last laugh. Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China by Hilary Spurling 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

Higher Ground is producing a feature film on Frederick Douglass, adapted from David W. Blight’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. Obamas unveil slate of series, documentaries for Netflix 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

I resolve to complete my definitive biography of the first president of the New Republic of Texas, Ted Cruz. Style Invitational Week 1110: Write a [Someone’s] Mama joke 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

But as a new authorised biography reveals, the outrageous performer and raconteur had melancholy secrets that are only now emerging. Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man 2010-10-09T23:08:00Z

But you lose less if you decide to read it as semi-true biography. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z

His new book is a biography of former government analyst Daniel Ellsberg titled “Most Dangerous.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lauren Groff among finalists for National Book Awards 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Just this year, he inspired a biographical movie, “Get On Up,” with Chadwick Boseman as Brown, and there have been a steady stream of biographies, including two memoirs that he wrote with co-authors. ‘Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ on HBO 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

In other words, we weren’t encouraged to read a biography of Ernest Hemingway to read “The Sun Also Rises.” Frederick Wiseman on the life of American institutions 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

An incandescent biography of the artist, who died in 1988 at the age of 27, but left a vibrant legacy. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The writing of a biography — a fraught and invasive endeavor — is especially complicated when the subject is not only still living but continues to wield influence. Jann Wenner and His Biographer Have a Falling Out 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Unlike his previous four books, all biographies of individuals, his new work is about groups and how the greatest innovations were all shaped by them. ‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson: How Women Shaped Technology 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

I haven’t reread “Walden” in over a decade, but news of this new biography makes me realize that it’s time I went back to the woods, deliberately. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Sebba’s multifaceted biography reexamines the couple’s courtship and marriage, relying in part on newly discovered letters that Simpson wrote to one of her former husbands. Books to get you ready for Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Goodwin, who adapted Victoria’s biography for a PBS Masterpiece drama, focuses on the young queen’s life before her marriage to Albert, as she reckons with her independence and power. Paperback Row 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

He argues that Mr. Obama was determined “to avoid life’s traps,” including “the trap of his unusual family biography” and the “trap of race in America, with its likelihood of rejection and cynicism.” Books of The Times: ‘Barack Obama: The Story,’ by David Maraniss 2012-06-04T22:27:26Z

The Hope portrayed in the biography is a complex man of deep contradictions. Bob Hope gets little thanks for all the memories 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

This is not a biography of Bob Dylan. Historian Sean Wilentz on the Mysterious Bob Dylan 2010-10-21T08:40:00Z

The second and final volume of this biography traces Freud’s life as his artistic output and notoriety soared. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Their 700-page Salinger biography has new information well beyond any possible posthumous fiction. New biography claims more Salinger books due out 2013-08-25T17:08:53Z

The true Carter emerges from the pages of Edmund Gordon’s expansive new biography thanks to a huge body of journals and letters. An overdue biography of Angela Carter 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Now, Simon & Schuster, which published the biography, has removed several blurbs by celebrities who apparently requested that their endorsements be removed. Bill Cosby biography loses celebrity blurbs, won't be published in paperback 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“There are not a lot of journalists who would want to be involved in an authorized biography,” she said in an interview. Petraeus Biography Underscores Ethics Questions for Authors 2012-11-14T00:36:11Z

And now he is getting own biography comic book, courtesy Bluewater Productions. Justin Bieber gets new comic book 2010-07-16T21:08:00Z

Professor Ward was doubly honored when she won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in Britain for her biography. Aileen Ward, Scholar and Biographer, Dies at 97 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Laing’s previous books have been smart hybrids of memoir, biography and cultural history. Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather’ ponders the role of art during times of crisis 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

I’m impatient to read a good and ample Cimino biography; the story of his endurance as a pariah would be one for the ages. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

What might have been a dusty documentary exercise is instead a well-paced drama of ideas, one that goes beyond biography but still keeps Turner at the center. Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z

Allen Say’s “Silent Days, Silent Dreams” is a fascinating biography of James Castle, a self-taught 20th-century American artist who was deaf from birth and never learned to read and write. Gorgeous Picture Books That Reveal the Power of the Pencil 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

This week Ani’s boss has a copy of a biography of Harry S Truman. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

And Tom Segev’s biography “A State at Any Cost” explores the ways that Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, set that country on its path, for better and worse. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

One welcome recent development in biography writing, even of men, is the restoration of women to their proper and active places in their subjects' stories. Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden – review 2013-03-15T12:02:59Z

Atlas also wrote the memoir “My Life in the Middle Ages” and a biography of Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, criticized by some for being overly harsh. James Atlas, author and editor of biographies, dies at 70 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Though the protagonist, Audrey, is a woman, her biography mirrors the author’s. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

As Patricia O’Toole remarks in “The Moralist,” her new biography of Wilson, “The remains of his presidency have yet to find repose.” Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Might it be that Alfred, for all his faults, gets short shrift in this biography? Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Franny Moyle’s biography, the latest of many in recent decades, is a fat, satisfying popular history of the man who was arguably Britain’s greatest painter. Industrious genius 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

In this biography, Saunders portrays a complex and often violent personality, who thought of herself as both a good Catholic and a self-denying socialist – a sort of Saint Joan of the Workshops. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders |Book review 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z

In 1984, he showed a Newsday reporter what he called, with tart humor, an “ugly manuscript” — a battered volume of parchment pages that contained biographies of Talmudic rabbis but that had no particular aesthetic appeal. Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary Librarian, Dies at 88 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

Her resume “almost defies belief,” says her Rock Hall biography. Rock Hall of Famers, Kids Celebrate Darlene Love 2013-10-18T15:18:43Z

This first major biography of the great tennis champion, written by a civil rights historian, shows that Ashe’s activism was as important as his athletic skill. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

In these brief personal pieces, Caro excavates his experiences creating his monumental biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson. New in Paperback: ‘Working’ and ‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

For the most part, this thoughtful and ambitious biography remains focused on Ms. Didion’s writing, using her life to shed light on her highly autobiographical work. Review: ‘The Last Love Song,’ a Biography of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Can we wind it back a little bit because we just started sort of in the middle of your biography. Carla Hall corrects the record with “Soul Food” 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

When I told my mother I was writing a biography of Trump for young adults, she clasped her hands together and said, “Oh. There aren’t going to be swears in it, are there?” We need to stop lying to kids about Donald Trump 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

It will highlight the biographies and achievements of the founders of the major studios, as well as of some lesser-known Jewish filmmakers. After Criticism, Film Museum Will Highlight Hollywood’s Jewish History 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

Thomas Meaney’s review calls it “both a dual biography of Buckley and Baldwin and an acute commentary on a great intellectual prizefight.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

The series is based on the biography “Fosse” by Sam Wasson, and it has the feel of a Fosse story to which the “/Verdon” was appended. Review: In ‘Fosse/Verdon,’ a Portrait of the Artist as Problematic Fave 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

As part of what seems like a credo, the brothers are ruthlessly private, reluctant to rope in anything like intimate biography into a biopic. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Every Jefferson biography on the shelf is a polemic, one way or another, but we wanted to get beyond that,” Mr. Onuf said. Thomas Jefferson, Neither God Nor Devil 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Your process involves such a richness of intellect and history and personal biography. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

And this film is literally my biography — fictionalized, dramatized, but still my biography — merged with the work and the voice I’ve been developing while I’ve been here. Barry Jenkins on ‘Moonlight,’ a Tale of Black America and Personal Adversity 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Broadway opening night of his hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda paid emotional tribute to the biography, and the life, that inspired his work. Creator and Fans Hit it Lucky With 'Hamilton' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

How does your understanding of her now differ from how you saw her when you published the biography? Harper Lee Biographer Charles Shields on His Latest Edition 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Little has changed, as a new biography of chef, writer and television travel star Anthony Bourdain has demonstrated. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

The soil unearthed by Crossrail and the discoveries made by archaeologists provide rich material for Gillian Tindall, a historian who has written biographies of Bombay, London’s South Bank and the Left Bank of Paris. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

In this short biography, he finds room for well-designed detours into areas like the “ill-defined social position” of photographers, who “floated somewhere between artisan and technician, merchant and shopkeeper — somewhere between working class and bourgeois.” The Wild of Nadar, an Early Photographer Who Knew How to Give a Party 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

With nothing to do but read his favorite series of biographies, Jack is happy to help old Miss Volker, the town's increasingly arthritic historian, type obituaries of Norvelt residents. 'Daisy' runs off with Caldecott and 'Dead End' takes Newbery 2012-01-28T06:24:08Z

She was a high school English teacher in Winston-Salem, suburban Maryland and Richmond, Ind.; and after publishing her Sandburg biography, she spent 12 years as writer-in-residence at Salem College, in Winston-Salem. Penelope Niven, Carl Sandburg Biographer, Dies at 75 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

But in writing this book — and I very much wanted to, as I understand, a lot of biographies, autobiographies are written from the point of view of the age of the people writing them. Robbie Robertson remembers: “People were screaming and booing and throwing sh*t” 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

I also interviewed the then editor of the New Yorker, William Shawn, for my biography. Letter: Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-10-04T16:50:00Z

I never wanted to write a third person account; there are so many stellar, insightful biographies about O’Keeffe. Beyond “the eternal feminine”: Novelist Dawn Tripp reimagines the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Given that this is a biography, it’s worth noting there is one Gottlieb endeavor omitted from an otherwise comprehensive book, the poisoner in chief’s role in another equally questionable, though less harmful, endeavor: parapsychology. When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

There were also piles of books, many inscribed, on topics from cooking to yachting, along with biographies and novels. Lauren Bacall’s Eclectic Treasures Auctioned Off 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

This is a sympathetic biography that gives “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” its full due as a classic of black experience and thought, but it fully airs the criticisms against it. Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Even fewer biographies offer such a fair assessment of the man. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Bergreen, who has written well-regarded biographies of Columbus and Magellan, proposes the haul as the golden counterweight that tipped the balance of power in Europe. How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Each detail of Jamison’s biography is more improbable than the last. When the Internet was for strangers 2013-02-17T17:00:00Z

For this biography, he conducted scores of interviews, including more than a dozen with Carter himself. The Feats and Failures of Jimmy Carter 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Alexander Hamilton,” by Ron Chernow, is the founding father’s definitive biography. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

According to Walter Isaacson, author of a biography of Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson’s original version used the phrase “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable.” Books of The Times: ‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,’ by Jon Meacham 2012-11-20T22:57:50Z

And there is much to be gained, at this moment in our history, from having one more Roosevelt biography in our electronic devices and on our bookstore and library shelves. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

This nervousness about how to square biography with hagiography focuses attention on the primary problem in all commemoration of the great and the good. Martin Luther King ? a whitewash can be right 2011-04-04T20:00:01Z

And last year “Long Promised Road,” a full biography of the enormously talented and most overlooked Wilson brother, Carl, was published. In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

This huge and absorbing new biography, full of previously unexplored detail, shows that Obama’s saga is more surprising and gripping than the version we’re familiar with. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

And, indeed, from the official biography of Status Quo, which is also called Just for the Record. I'm not sure a Spice Girls invite is what Theresa May really, really wants 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

In this immense new biography, he proves to be an ardent Page fan, and like many fans who write books about their heroes, he always has one more thing to add. Every note of Jimmy Page — before, during and after Led Zeppelin 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Eschewing the conventions of filmed biographies, the camera glides over paintings, photographs and illustrations as interviewees speak about Morrison’s life. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Shortly before he died, "at a moment when he felt the end was close", he scribbled a message in a biography of Proust. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z

The novel examines the oppressions of caste and colorism, government surveillance, the abuse of women — all cunningly folded into the biography of an unhappy little goat. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the artists’ biographies, available in copies of a small handbook throughout the galleries, confuse matters further by indicating that some lived close to normal lives and were well educated. ‘Art Brut in America’ Highlights Outsider Artists, No Longer Looking In 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a mishmash of genres: memoir, meditations, poetry, cultural critique, biography and medical material. Wresting Insight, and Poetry, From Pain 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

What the biographies and the play do agree on is that Richard was fearsome on the battlefield. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z

“Her original experimentation with form transcends the conventions of biography,” Rees said. ‘The Pike’ Wins Samuel Johnson Nonfiction Prize 2013-11-04T22:10:22Z

With her biography of Mrs. Parker complete and Ms. Hellman dead, Ms. Meade wanted to pay her respects. Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

No historian can possibly wish to be the subject of a biography. The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Andron, whose background is in movie marketing, lists in his program biography that his work as a DVD content producer can be seen on “Point Break: Pure Adrenaline Edition.” | 'White's Lies': At New World Stages, a Scramble to Produce a Grandchild 2010-05-10T21:33:00Z

By the end, it should be obvious that this is more of a tall tale than a biography, and that's fine. “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is stranger than nonfiction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

For that reason alone, the tendency to read The Bell Jar as if it were the unmediated biography of Plath's personal life seems to me to diminish its significance. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Elie, author of "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," a group biography of four writers influenced by Catholicism, accomplishes all this by following the classic advice to writers: show, don't tell. 'Reinventing Bach': multiple variations on a virtuoso composer 2012-09-27T20:18:04Z

Tubman’s remarkable biography has all the right elements: danger, surprise and the kind of against-all-odds heroism that brings people to the movies. ‘Harriet’ Review: Becoming Moses 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

In the biography, he provided clues to what entranced him. Morton Cohen, Scholar of Lewis Carroll and His Wonderland, Dies at 96 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Many of those shenanigans still hover in the zeitgeist, and many more are exhaustively detailed in Robert Greenfield’s 2006 biography, “Timothy Leary.” Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Blake Gopnik is the author of “Warhol,” a comprehensive biography of the Pop artist. When a Warhol for $225 Has More Heft Than One for $195 Million 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

“The Undefeated” is a staggering work of bombast and overstatement, the closest thing in the United States to the campaign biographies of the newly elected Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. | ?Game Change?: In ?Game Change? on HBO, Julianne Moore Plays Sarah Palin 2012-03-08T13:00:00Z

There is little dramatic tension or psychological depth to this cinematic biography, and even in sentimental moments, McCabe fails to elicit an emotional response from her subject or the audience. ‘Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?’ Review: Wickedly Talented 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

William Shakespeare had a secret son who grew up to become the poet laureate of England, according to the author of a new biography. Did Shakespeare have a secret son? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Her office is stuffed with files crammed with details of her trips, as well as travel books and biographies. Michelle Paver: a life in writing 2012-08-24T21:55:05Z

“The Promise and the Dream” was motivated by Mr. Margolick’s warts-and-all approach to biography and his personal need to reappraise King and Kennedy and their relationship. King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

He was a downtown type if ever there was one, as is made clear in Judith E. Stein’s engrossing 2016 biography, but Green Gallery was firmly in the business of doing business. When Artists Ran the Show: ‘Inventing Downtown,’ at N.Y.U. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Michael Wood’s fine, brief biography of Hitchcock is part of a series called “Icons,” a rubric attached to subjects including Jesus and Stalin and Edgar Allan Poe. The blur between acting, fakery 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

It is explained in a biography of Jan Kjærstad, arguably Norway's most influential living writer, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, 20th Century Norwegian. How will Norway's crime writers respond to the Ut?ya massacre? 2011-07-30T23:06:29Z

The result is a biography of a book that is also a portrait of an intoxicating era of jazz clubs, speakeasies, and organised crime. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

He could have written a stand-alone biography of Elizabeth in his sleep — and now perhaps he has. Yet Another Serving From the Royals Banquet 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

This book is two books: a biography and a series of journeys through the music, a travelogue with an excitable professor. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Authors less bold and visionary than William Hogeland will usually settle for writing conventional biographies about the characters who grace the pages of “Autumn of the Black Snake” — George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson. “Autumn of the Black Snake” tells the story of America’s first war 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Echo’s Bones,” as Mr. Nixon’s annotations make clear, is a magpie’s assortment of references, allusions and quotations, with nods to Dante, Shakespeare, Dickens, Mozart, biographies, folklore, movies, popular songs. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

In “The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War,” part literary biography, part Civil War history, Michael Gorra presents a cogent case for Faulkner as one such prophet. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

As the author of previous biographies of Edvard Munch and August Strindberg, Prideaux clearly knows her way around the world of European high modernism. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

On ABC, Tina Brown, who wrote a biography of Princess Diana, couldn’t stop praising the bride’s “queenly” poise and aptitude for her new job. The TV Watch: Passion Versus Pageantry in Royal Wedding Reports 2011-05-03T21:47:28Z

That much about his biography is certain; the legends are harder to prove. James Jebusa Shannon’s Portraits Rescued From Obscurity 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Talking about the script in November 2012, Sorkin suggested that it would not be a linear biography, rather it would showcase a number of turning points in Jobs’ life. Christian Bale Confirmed By Aaron Sorkin As Apple's Steve Jobs 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

According to a contemporary listener quoted in this biography, Francis Scott Key was tone deaf and “could not tell one tune from another.” Book review: ‘What So Proudly We Hailed,’ by Marc Leepson

Kemp’s work is not a biography about every single one of their lives. Regina King: Speaking Truth to Power Through Her Art 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

Visitors sometimes comment on the brief biographies with each portrait, Ward said. Smithsonian’s popular ‘Hall of Presidents’ to close for renovation, reopen in fall 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Ten minutes at bedtime with an essay collection, biography or self-help book and you immediately begin to nod off. Perspective | When I find fiction too draining, I turn to books about books. They can be as thrilling as a whodunit. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Steven Heller, her co-author on “Born Modern,” a biography of her first husband, the design pioneer Alvin Lustig, described her as “the quintessential Modernist,” happy to talk about the past but “always in the present.” Elaine Lustig Cohen, Designer Who Left Her Mark Everywhere, Dies at 89 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The “Hamilton” back story is compelling: Mr. Miranda, at an airport on his way to a vacation with his wife in Mexico, picked up a copy of “Alexander Hamilton,” a 2004 biography by Ron Chernow. ‘Hamilton’ Heads to Broadway in a Hip-Hop Retelling 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Some of those paintings return in this selection, but the newer ones are mostly of Americans, occasionally with traces of biography in the background. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

He folds plenty of tangy bits into “Escapes” — Mr. Fancher palled around with fame and was romantically involved with Sue Lyon and Barbara Hershey — but the movie is more essayistic gloss than definitive biography. Review: ‘Escapes’ Recounts a Hollywood Storyteller’s Inventive Life 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

This graphic novel biography helps young readers get to know Tubman, zeroing in on how she brought her three brothers to freedom. Newly Published, From the World Trade Center to a Cheeto-Loving Crow 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Their presence offered hope for what has seemed to be a faltering marriage between film biography and music. Hendrix Biopic at Toronto Festival Bucks a Trend 2013-09-09T12:58:18Z

By college, he wrote in a biography on his website, “I was studying music theory during the week and playing in bars on the weekends.” Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

Burns’s life would hardly warrant interest — and certainly not a full-scale, studiously researched biography — on the basis of his literary output. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z

Calendar will have more on Lewis, the new album, the biography and the Knox Phillips album in the coming days. Jerry Lee Lewis returns with 2 albums, biography 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Noguchi’s mother, a fascinating and tragic figure, haunted his expression much as she haunts the pages of Herrera’s elegant biography. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

He published the first installment of his Parker biography, “Kansas City Lightning,” in 2007. Stanley Crouch, contentious man of letters, dead at 74 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Norman puts these to good use, as well as recently published books about the Dalai Lama’s two tutors, making this biography the most detailed and accurate to date. Who Is the Dalai Lama? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The biography begins with a prologue that takes us to Sept. 1, 1843. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Some critics have found the jumbled, unmediated quality of these biographies to be a feature rather than a bug. The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

This became fascinating to me as I learned more about Woolf's life, reading her diaries, and biographies that explored the relationship between her mental illness and her history of bereavement. Summer reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 2011-08-10T10:35:43Z

“I enjoyed and admired his biography of Johnny Cash and I think he’ll tell my story well.” Paul Simon biography due from author-critic Robert Hilburn 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

These works don’t attempt to replace the compendious authority of traditional biography but, rather, enter into dialogue with it by reflecting more on some facts in a life and its work than on others. The Blind Poet Who Saw Visions of Religious and Political Freedom 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

I remember illustrated histories of the United States, and a biography of George Washington for children — and a great book called “Benjy,” by Edwin O’Connor. Roddy Doyle Scored 8 Out of 10 on a Quiz About Roddy Doyle 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

For Rothko, with whom she had spent many an evening discussing existential questions, she constructed a philosophical and cultural biography. Dore Ashton, Art Critic Who Embraced and Inhabited Modernism, Dies at 88 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The show, which honors the many women in Hudes’s maternal line, is a tender collision of scene and image, an impressionistic collage rather than a straightforward biography. ‘My Broken Language’ Review: Piecing Together a Life of Many Dialects 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

Indeed, many uncertainties surround the biography of Machado, who was an intensely private person. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z

For Charles R. Cross, the Seattle author of "Room Full of Mirrors," a best-selling Hendrix biography, creation of Jimi Hendrix Park is long overdue. Vision for Hendrix Park as vibrant as namesake 2011-08-15T04:01:24Z

When she originally set out to write the book she found it was straying too close to a biography of her father, something she felt she was too close to him to write. William Golding's daughter reveals his 'darker side' in new book 2010-09-19T16:25:00Z

This biography does justice to the part of her that was Svetlana’s alone: survivor, adventurer, petty tyrant instead of brutal one, truly charming “Hostess,” though she always wanted control. Review: ‘Stalin’s Daughter,’ by Rosemary Sullivan, Looks at a Complicated Life 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

This is the challenge that Karin Roffman, the author of “From the Modernist Annex,” gamely takes up in “The Songs We Know Best,” the first full-fledged biography of Ashbery, who has just turned 90. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

You may know all that: It’s part of the many terrific, straightforward, deeply researched histories and biographies I’ve read. The guilty pleasure of reading Hollywood memoirs 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which sparked controversy and legal complaints after publishing cartoons of Muhammad, will this week release a special edition illustrated biography of the Muslim prophet. Muhammad cartoons: magazine to publish illustrated biography of prophet 2012-12-30T15:54:02Z

Many details of his biography as he told it — much like the scandalous stories in “Hollywood Babylon” — are hard to corroborate. Kenneth Anger, 96, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

I think it's important that the models keep the tradition of the image that Vermont, Arlington in particular, was important in Norman Rockwell's biography. Americana revisited: Rockwell's models reuniting 2012-09-28T21:42:08Z

“Over time I have begun to think of them as an extension of each other,” says Bobby Ward, a plant biologist who wrote a biography of Raulston. This collector-grower built an Eden of rare plants. Now he tackles the challenge to preserve it. 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Heretofore, mostly snippets of the story were available, in biographies and autobiographies of the principals, diaries, interviews, magazine articles and the like. 'Something's Coming, Something Good': the story behind 'West Side Story' 2011-07-07T19:22:03Z

Responding to Bloom's anxiety, the title story describes a Borgesian wing of the Swedish Royal Library that houses a book containing the biography of every ordinary life lived since 1789. A brief survey of the short story part 42: Danilo Kiš 2012-08-02T15:03:20Z

Supplementary information is available on each character in any scene: biographies, photo galleries, documentation such as passports and letters. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

As a kid, I was very concerned about how people made a living and so I tended to read biographies. Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Vargas Llosa came to Casement not through the Peruvian connection, but through reading a biography of Joseph Conrad. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z

Auden did not want to endure a biography, and tried desperately but vainly to prevail against predatory life-writers. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The disagreement over the Simone biography has resonated in part because of her place in music and social history. Should Zoe Saldana Play Nina Simone? Some Say No 2012-09-12T19:45:18Z

Just by looking at people's biographies online, I saw that a lot of them did sketch comedy. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

This jumbo-size biography is perhaps an odd tribute to a writer whose books were tiny, like small sachets of fragrant rice. Books of The Times: Richard Brautigan Biography, ‘Jubilee Hitchhiker’ 2012-05-22T17:36:11Z

"She had the family's only telephone, television and car, thus consolidating her absolute power," he wrote in his official biography. Family Ties creator dies aged 68 2013-06-24T10:07:21Z

The book, which Simon & Schuster described in a news release as "an oral biography," is titled "The Private War of J. D. Salinger" and is planned for publication in September. ArtsBeat: Biography of J. D. Salinger Coming in September 2013-01-29T14:04:44Z

King and Junior Parker, according to Bland's biography on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website. Legendary blues singer Bobby Bland dies at 83: media reports 2013-06-24T04:53:45Z

Why do readers of her work always reduce it to her biography, thereby cheating her as a writer, cheating any writer, of the power to transform their lives in their art? Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

With the Jobs film, Gibney didn't set out to make a "cradle to grave" biography. SXSW 2015: After Scientology documentary, Alex Gibney aims at Steve Jobs 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

The debate, which made ample room for the candidates' hardscrabble biographies, had precious little time for the Black Lives Matter movement, economic inequality or the skyrocketing cost of higher education. First GOP debate was more like a reality TV show 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

He covered the Iraq war, including four assignments in Baghdad, and was the White House correspondent from 2005-07, according to his biography on WNYW's website. NYPD boss' son, not charged, returns to TV Friday 2012-02-08T23:09:12Z

The second volume of Dos Passos's USA trilogy combines history, fictional biography and stream of consciousness narration to try to fit modern America into one book. John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles 2012-06-01T21:55:10Z

The fascinating story of Kesey’s emergence into the larger-than-life character we’ve come to know takes up the second half of Dodgson’s excellent biography. Ken Kesey bio: Journey from farm kid to Merry Prankster 2013-12-24T21:27:41Z

In symmetry with Will, I suffer from sex dysmorphia; I habitually feel like an angry young man trapped in the body of a female … Orlando, Woolf's fantastical biography, records the 400-year life of Lord Orlando. Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes 2013-03-20T13:54:52Z

This tightly focused chamber score describes characters and incidents from the opera, which mixes elements of Kafka’s biography with the plot of his 1925 novel, “The Trial.” Music Review: Students Interpret Kafkaesque Score 2010-09-26T21:26:00Z

According to a biography on his Web site, Mr. Morello gave up the violin for drums at 15, after meeting his idol, the violinist Jascha Heifetz. Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82 2011-03-13T21:52:59Z

Callow’s biography aims at correcting that image of Welles, emphasizing the significant artistic achievements of this period and the reasons they were undervalued. ‘Orson Welles was fundamentally insecure as an actor’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

It’s not a biography nor is it anything like a standard music documentary – indeed, I’m not sure it can be considered a documentary at all, at least not all the way through. Nick Cave’s dark, strange and sometimes hilarious odyssey 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

We are given accounts of the cherubim and seraphim that read almost like the reports of a field anthropologist, detailed biographies of the archangels, and a rich seam of angelological trivia. From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels by Valery Rees 2012-12-21T07:00:01Z

There are some overlaps between "I'll Eat You Last" and "Lucky Guy," the stage biography of journalist Mike McAlary, starring Tom Hanks. Review: Bette Midler gets to make fun of Hollywood 2013-04-25T01:07:08Z

By chance, I read a review of a critical biography about St Augustine. Attention!: A (Short) History by Joshua Cohen – review 2013-06-21T10:00:01Z

Brown’s book is an idiosyncratic cocktail of oral history, personal memoir, tourism and biography. Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Now, almost a half century on, Malcolm has finally received the biography that his unique role in black and global resistance culture demands. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable ? review 2011-04-10T05:00:01Z

Monk recalls meeting the philosopher Karl Popper with a view to writing his biography. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

He is Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose “Confessions,” with its disclosures of his own amorous misadventures, inspired Casanova’s biography — and whose other writings helped foment revolutions in America, France and Haiti. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Yes, the Beatles’ bookshelf was huge, and though there had been several serious biographies, none approached the depth or breadth of, say, Robert Caro’s biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. ArtsBeat: Tune In, and Turn On the Reading Light 2013-12-27T20:38:53Z

An Oxford professor offers an imaginative biography of the 17th-century poet that sets out to capture Milton’s “desire to escape time, to be perennially contemporary.” 8 New Books Coming in December 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Markoff, a former technology reporter for The New York Times, wraps his arms around the whole story in this new biography. 17 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Season 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Thus for some of the most critical years of this biography, the Soviets were probably as much in the dark about the goings-on of China’s political elite as the Americans were. Still in the shadows 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Hughes told his long-suffering second wife Carol, about whom the reader hears little, that he did not want an authorised biography; though there were hints to his sister Olwyn that spoke otherwise. Prince of poetry 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

I learned quite a bit about him last year, when I read the biography "Feynman," published by First Second. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Justice League of Scientists 2012-09-28T17:30:17Z

There’s been a trend, in recent years, of novels based on the biographies of novelists. Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

A brief biography in the first novel becomes, in “Magic Lessons,” a rich, continent-leaping epic of Maria’s life. When Witches Run in the Family 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Winners in the novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children's book categories will be announced on 6 January 2014. Clive James up for Costa award 2013-11-27T02:06:32Z

The biography drama "Lee Daniels' The Butler" fell to second place in its fourth weekend with $8.4 million. 'Riddick' rules weekend box office with $19M 2013-09-09T21:45:22Z

One such admirer was Boston-based journalist Brett Milano, who recently published a compelling, comprehensive biography of the musician, “Don’t All Thank Me at Once: The Lost Pop Genius of Scott Miller.” The lost pop genius of Scott Miller: “Whatever makes you fall in love with a pop song … he did that” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

This is a comprehensive biography of Rich, who, when she died in 2012, was one of the most acclaimed poets of her generation and a face of American feminism. 16 New Books to Watch for in November 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Norton & Company will publish the previously announced authorized biography of Philip Roth, the press announced on Thursday. ArtsBeat: Norton To Publish Philip Roth Biography 2012-09-28T19:19:37Z

It’s both a biography and a view of Davis’s life in a sort of self-imposed exile. What We’re Reading This Fall 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

This clever, playful show, which opened at 54 Below on Tuesday evening, is her most ambitious adventure yet in zany, erudite musical biography. Nellie McKay Plays the Drag King Billy Tipton at 54 Below 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

I am also looking forward to dipping into Oliver Hilmes's new German biography, with the help of my German dictionary. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z

The biography begins less compellingly than it ends, perhaps because the young Jefferson’s entitlement precedes his accomplishments. Books of The Times: ‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,’ by Jon Meacham 2012-11-20T22:57:50Z

In a prose biography that needn’t matter; indeed, we do not want too much speculative psychology from historians. Review: In ‘The Great Society,’ Another Presidential Nightmare 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

His most recent book is “Grant,” a biography of the 18th president. Library of Congress National Book Festival: History Stage schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Paul Clements, a journalist and — eek! sorry! — travel writer who knew Morris for 30 years, has produced a lovely and scrupulous biography of her, subtitled, with a whiff of Joni Mitchell, “Life From Both Sides.” For Jan Morris, Staying in One Place Was Never an Option 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

There are two ways to read “Sutton,” by J. R. Moehringer: as a third-rate novel with a deep and crippling cornball streak, or as a loose and journalistic speculative biography of a famous bank robber. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z

Barker had stumbled upon a built-in audience: Commercial trade publishers were interested only in publishing music biographies of superstars like Nirvana and U2. 33⅓ book series celebrates records -- and its 10th anniversary 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Perry concedes that what she has written is “less a biography than a genre yet to be named.” A New Biography of a Brilliant Playwright Who Died Too Young 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

In 1988, the year after my first book was published, I wrote a letter to Lee asking whether she would consider cooperating with me in a biography of her. Harper Lee told me — graciously — to leave her alone 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Books have traditionally been promoted through newspaper serialisation of key excerpts: the Telegraph titles have just run three days of teasers from Charles Moore's biography of Margaret Thatcher. Shhhh! How keeping secrets became cool 2013-04-23T15:29:58Z

British musicologist Stephen Walsh charged in a 2006 biography of Stravinsky that Mr. Craft’s accounts were “riddled with bias, error, supposition and falsehood.” Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

But it’s not just Colonna’s poetic voice that this biography brings alive. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Ziegfeld is a leading character in “Funny Girl,” the fictionalized showbiz biography of Brice that won Barbra Streisand her first fame on Broadway and, later, an Oscar. Book review: ‘Ziegfeld and His Follies’ 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

This is not a potted biography, but it is a politely pruned one, idealism washing over the ick. A Rosier View of Roald Dahl 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

A biography on the website said Kinkade rejected "the intellectual isolation of the artist" and instead, made "each of his works an intimate statement that resonates in the personal lives of his viewers." Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif. 2012-04-07T17:46:03Z

But as this absorbing biography shows, she embraced a precociously modern awareness of gender and class, campaigning tirelessly for the rights of women and workers. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

For part of “To Float,” the alibi of “biography” helps Hayes avoid autobiography. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

He provides a biography of “old man winter”: “He doesn’t like Christmas or television, or newspapers for that matter.” Review: ‘Nice Fish,’ Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins’s Quirky Ice Fishing Tale 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Winston wrote a mammoth biography of Marlborough, which, for historian David Starkey, is crucial to our understanding of the future wartime prime minister, being "a book about history that changed history". TV highlights 26/07/12 2012-07-25T19:00:01Z

Mr. McEuen is a Cornell University physics professor whose areas of expertise, according to his faculty biography, include “the science and technology of nanoscience” and “novel fabrication techniques at the nanometer scale.” Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z

In “Under the Ivy,” the music journalist Graeme Thomson’s smart and respectful biography of Bush, from 2010, the author describes how, early on, reactions to Bush often condescended to her as a child of privilege. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Why should a gentile from Oklahoma write the biography of Philip Roth?” Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

There is undoubtedly more to learn from a harder-edged, more critical biography by someone unconcerned with the subject’s reaction. Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

Contrary to some Whitman biographies, Mr. Kaplan’s maintained that though Whitman was clearly attracted to men, he was not an active homosexual. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z

“This story is not biography, remember,” the narrator tells us toward the end, but concedes, “although things creep into it which have nothing to do with those dreams he had when he was young.” Tracing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Minnesota Roots 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

These details arrive in Adam Begley’s “Updike,” a sympathetic new biography that’s the first but unlikely to be the last of this great American writer — the great American writer, in many regards. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z

He has written just three conventional biographies, each born of a reluctant Plan B. Jimmy Scott had humbly demurred on the prospect of a ghostwritten memoir. David Ritz Opens Up About Aretha Franklin and Others 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

As for his two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell, to read it is to feel Monk's mounting distaste for his subject. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

"One puts off the biography like you put off death," he said. Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies 2012-05-15T19:31:10Z

Despite his inclusion of stories that show Harris’s warmth outside the limelight, his biography is not fawning. How Kamala Harris Rose — and Rose 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

More practically, I would say Ron Chernow, who wrote the excellent biography “Alexander Hamilton.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: By the Book 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Now 40 and editorial director of Harper Collins imprint Dey Street Books, she watched Richards’s 2010 biography, “Life,” earn rave reviews and rise up the bestseller lists. Rise of the female rock memoir 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The show’s second half is a protracted musical biography of Garland built around a revised version of “Born in a Trunk” that carries Garland from her birth in Grand Rapids, Minn., to her 1961 triumph. Music Review: Celebrating Mama?s Rainbow 2011-01-05T22:55:42Z

"Double Cross" suffers from the usual hazards of group biography — at times it's hard to track who's doing what, as the deception becomes progressively more complex and dangerous. 'Double Cross': A spy story with high stakes 2012-07-25T21:47:09Z

A biography of Lewis, by Rick Bragg, came out recently, and Bragg was in the audience. My Favorite Cultural Moments of 2014 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

When you read the biographies of most people who have been incredibly successful in the creative world, they haven't always achieved a personal life that is satisfying and fulfilling. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

Conceptual Art, as Ms. Antin saw it in the 1970s, was a boys’ club; it was also intellectually rigid, with little room for narrative, biography or fantasy. Art Review: Eleanor Antin’s Selves at Columbia University 2013-09-05T21:49:22Z

None of this compares to the scandal that erupted after her biography was published. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

He’s in such demand, and has had so much success, that the trolls have come for him, dragging him on Facebook for the over-the-topness of the biography on his website. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

We leave the realm of biography and information, and we experience breath, pneuma, life itself. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Singer Will Young will do a bit of soul-baring as well, all in the name of promoting his new biography. This week's new events 2012-10-05T23:04:05Z

RICHMOND, Va. — Steven Spielberg has selected Virginia to film a biography of Abraham Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis, elated state and local officials announced Wednesday. Spielberg's Lincoln movie to film in Va. this fall 2011-05-04T19:44:11Z

Someday someone will write a biography worthy of Joan Didion, an author known for her razor-sharp insights and crystalline style. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Much of Parker's work can be seen as creative biography. Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z

Kitty Kelley, who has written biographies about Oprah Winfrey, the Bush family and the British royal family, was sued by Frank Sinatra while she was working on a book about him. Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

These “Think Different” poster stars were not exactly out-of-the-box choices, and “Genius,” its title notwithstanding, plodded in that mushy middle ground where dutiful biography meets mediocre storytelling. Review: ‘Genius: Aretha’ Speaks Loudest When It Sings 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

“Biography of X” began when Lacey tried to write a real biography. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Indeed, “Ultrasuede” is as much a personal odyssey as a biography. Up Close: Whitney Sudler-Smith?s Love Letter to the ?70s 2010-04-28T22:23:00Z

Now comes Jonathan Eig’s “Ali: A Life,” the first biography of Ali’s entire life, completed in the wake of his death, at 74, in June 2016. Muhammad Ali, Beginning to End for the First Time in a Book 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

The attractions of Kierkegaard — his severity and wit, the force of his rhetoric, his defense of the individual and the example of his solitary spiritual striving — survive even a middling biography. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Gail Collins, described this as the first major single-volume biography of “the most important first lady in American history” to appear in more than 50 years. New in Paperback: ‘Out Loud’ and ‘A Thousand Ships’ 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Still, the Zaleskis have produced a major work of biography and criticism, and if you are a devotee of any of the Inklings, you will want to read it. ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

It is surprising, too, that Mr Gordon’s is the first full-length biography of Carter, whose novels continue to populate Vintage Classics’ bestseller list. An overdue biography of Angela Carter 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The show’s jaunty title, Ms. Chalif said, reflects its “range of content — seaside, agriculture and biography.” | Long Island: An Exhibition of Century-Old Long Island Photographs at the Heckscher Museum 2013-05-03T23:39:15Z

Neither is the need for a biography as thorough as this one, perhaps — but Ms. Simmons doesn’t care, and neither will her readers. Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z

Joan Peyser, a prolific writer about classical music and the author of biographies of Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, died on Sunday in Manhattan. Joan Peyser, Bernstein and Gershwin Biographer, Dies at 80 2011-04-25T14:54:51Z

The page size is larger than before, but the book has been shortened by putting the biographies and tournament results onto a second CD. Bridge: Bridge: Strategies for the Bibliophile on Your Gift List 2011-11-20T21:54:32Z

Mr. Myers’s own biography provides a glimpse into the experiences that shape his work. Walter Dean Myers: Ambassador for Young People?s Literature 2012-01-03T05:00:00Z

Even in that milieu, Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher reported in their 2007 biography, “Supreme Discomfort,” Thomas’s “edgy race consciousness” stood out. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

In 1750, Samuel Johnson wrote that a good biography can “enchain the heart by an irresistible interest.” The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

I include a lot of history and biography. Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Writing in The Pittsburgh Press, Roy McHugh called it an “admirably straightforward biography” that “explains more than is possible and excuses nothing.” Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

One of her earliest biographies is filled with inaccuracies and racist language, while a cottage industry of children’s books paints a picture of her that’s often more fable than flesh and blood. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Still, if the book falls short in some ways as biography, it delivers as history. Do Whistle-Blowers Damage National Security? 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

In a godless age the iconic slot is filled by biography of great men – and, if necessary, bucketfuls of whitewash. Martin Luther King ? a whitewash can be right 2011-04-04T20:00:01Z

Two hundred years after the emperor’s death in 1821 on the island of St. Helena, he continues to be the subject of new biographies and speculations. Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

The prevailing obsession, then and now, with the personal biographies and foibles of the candidates prohibits other writers, and more importantly, politicians from doing the same clarifying work of her journalism. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

Immediately installed as the bookmakers' favourite to win the overall prize later this month, Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes was the winner of the Costa biography prize. Edmund de Waal leads Costa book awards finalists 2011-01-04T19:30:06Z

What has happened, these expert practitioners explained, is that biography has changed its shape, and is now sailing under new colours. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z

The problems of contrapuntal writing particular to group biography are not really solved; a paragraph about one sister just follows one about another. Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review 2013-04-20T08:00:48Z

Martin, whose books include biographies of Johnson and James Boswell, portrays Webster as a crank and an embarrassingly flawed lexicographer. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

"This biography will revolutionise historical thinking about a crucial period in China's – and the world's – history." Jung Chang writes 'groundbreaking' new biography 2013-05-23T13:07:12Z

There have been other biographies or books about Oppenheimer, but none so ardently driven to understand this tragically flawed man from the inside. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

But startling revelations are hardly the only criterion for a good Nixon biography. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

After a few pages of biography, Ms. Robbins plunges right in with details about making fresh pasta with or without eggs, rolled and extruded, shape by shape. A Comprehensive Guide to Pasta From Missy Robbins 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Television, he said, has played its part in causing an upsurge in sales for popular-history books as against biography. Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z

“Either he thought he was just invincible, or he was maybe just incredibly desperate,” Wilding, who is working on a biography of Galileo, said of Nicotra. Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Moore's screenplay was based loosely on author Andrew Hodges' biography of Turing, "Alan Turing: The Enigma." Oscars 2015: 'The Imitation Game' wins for adapted screenplay 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

For the remaining six weeks of the tour, Harvey Sachs tells us in his biography “Toscanini: Musician of Conscience,” the maestro led the orchestra in 26 performances of 12 operas, all from memory. A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Her program biography tells us that she is “referred to by many as the ‘dancer with endless arms,’ ” and her dancing suggests that she certainly encourages many people to refer to her that way. 2010-02-15T22:48:00Z

Matthew Dennison, who wrote a biography of Dahl, said by email on Monday that the author was known to have fractious relationships with his editors and disliked anyone tampering with his work. Roald Dahl’s Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

The scandal died down so much that it was not mentioned in Mark Whitaker's biography of Cosby published earlier this year. Bill Cosby is in role of outcast after sexual assault allegations 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

There are many different biographies about Scott Fitzgerald – what made you choose Arthur Mizener’s? Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

He entered treatment in Boston, according to the Max biography, and joined a 12-step program back in Illinois. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Frady's slender volume, part of the Penguin Lives biography series, provides a streamlined overview of King's life and work. Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. in books 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

The very existence of these tapes is a miracle, but the film, at nearly every turn, undercuts the wonder and turns it into a cut-and-paste job of a profile-like biography. Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

There’s this crazy part of your biography where you, Tom, and your kids were living in what your father called a “shack” in Santa Monica, and you were sleeping on a mattress on the floor. Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The late former first lady’s thoughts about Trump were revealed in excerpts published Wednesday in USA Today of an upcoming biography, “The Matriarch.” Barbara Bush blamed Trump for ‘angst,’ new book reveals 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

History and biography giving insight into the past. Paperback Q&A: Joan Bakewell on She's Leaving Home 2012-08-07T14:44:45Z

It is "The Lonely Doll," not "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll," which is a 2004 biography of the first book's author. Tally of the Dolls 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

He is not only a novelist, that is, but “a character in our biography.” Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

While his life was hard and never entirely free of post-traumatic stress disorder, David Jones now has — thanks to Thomas Dilworth — a biography worthy of his originality and genius. Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

This is a point underlined by the publication today of a biography of Barack Obama by the New Yorker editor David Remnick. General election 2010: the campaign to define it starts now 2010-05-07T12:09:00Z

To be published in America by Penguin in October 2017 A biography of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues, by our former assistant books and arts editor. What we wrote... 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Iconic buildings don’t just spring up either, as Wendy Lesser’s engaging biography of the architect Louis Kahn makes clear. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

You should read those this week, then read Clark’s biography for a fuller sense of the tumultuous life and mind behind the work. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

A real book being, of course, nonfiction, in this case the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Romita’s interest in drawing was encouraged at home and in school, according to a 2007 biography by Sue L. Hamilton. John Romita Sr., Longtime Marvel Comic Book Artist, Dies at 93 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

OK, nobody has written a biography of either of us. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z

To this Soyica Diggs Colbert, a professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University, adds her contribution with “Radical Vision,” positioned as the first scholarly biography. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

He is conducting an interview with the famous author to help form a more substantial biography for his fans. Review: ‘The Symmetry Teacher’ by Andrei Bitov

But Byron’s Swiss chateau is nonetheless where the seed of “Frankenstein” is planted, and “Mary Shelley” is as much a biography of that book as of its author. Review: ‘Mary Shelley’ Twists Pain and Passion Into a Monster 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

I wrote him a polite letter to request his approval for a biography, to which he replied civilly, but in the negative. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z

I began to think about writing biography, years before I actually did, when I read Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey as an undergraduate. Paperback Q&A: Stella Tillyard on Tides of War 2012-06-19T10:00:01Z

Too much is presented almost as raw data, quotations from interviews of one sort or another, at moments closer to oral history than to biography. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z

However, the company removed Mr. Heine’s biography from its website Monday evening. Citing Ukraine War, an American Resigns From Russia’s Mariinsky 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Her online biography from EAS Music Management said she was "one of the most remarkable pianists of her generation". Romanian pianist Ursuleasa dies 2012-08-03T10:32:07Z

“I liked the strident vocal tone of the singers, the vigorous dancing,” he is quoted in “How Can I Keep From Singing,” a biography by David Dunaway. Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z

Monk's biography of Wittgenstein was subtitled "the duty of genius" – that description describes, perhaps, what Oppenheimer thought he was fulfilling on the Manhattan Project. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

In a biography written for the Firesign Web site, Mr. Austin said he studied at several colleges, including Fresno State and UCLA, but didn’t get a degree. Phil Austin, co-founder of comedy group Firesign Theatre, dies at 74 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

Interestingly, Gosse's first attempt to write about his father took the form of an official biography. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

Stiles, won the biography prize, and "Tinkers," by Paul Harding, won the fiction award. Drama Pulitzer goes to 'Next to Normal,' a musical born at Issaquah's Village Theatre 2010-04-12T19:35:00Z

In both a 2018 biography and the statements, Sainte-Marie also says she was told she may have been born “on the wrong side of the blanket,” referring to an affair. Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous Parentage Is Questioned 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

In researching material for a biography on de Weldon, Brown learned about the old studio and amazingly found the monument still covered by the tarp. Original Iwo Jima monument coming to NYC auction 2013-02-08T12:27:08Z

When I am not reading history, biography or current events literature, I tend to default to philosophy. Review | A former congressman asked his old colleagues for book suggestions. Here’s their list. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

In his biography, Mr. Chernow writes that Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth, “may have owned one or two household slaves,” citing “three oblique hints in his papers.” Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Isn’t it odd that no one has written a biography of you?” Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

By perusing the Tate’s archives and reading several biographies, he also pieced together how the artist worked, and he created onstage the scrappy, insular world of Rothko’s Manhattan studio, a former gymnasium in the Bowery. In ?Red,? Molina Shares Stage With Rothko?s Art 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z

"We played every dive in Washington at one time or another," Dean said in his biography on the Country Music Hall of Fame website. Country music legend Jimmy Dean dies 2010-06-14T06:44:00Z

Ernesto “Che” Guevara may be a timeless revolutionary icon, but that doesn’t mean his biography is necessarily a story for our time. A 50-Year-Old Graphic Biography of Che Guevara That Still Feels Fresh 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Jenny Uglow calls her capacious and astute new biography “Mr. Lear,” which is certainly straightforward. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Milton Shaw’s biography of his father, “Joseph T. Shaw: The Man Behind Black Mask,” chronicles the life of the pulp magazine’s editor, with anecdotes about such famous contributors as Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner. Review | Beyond the bestsellers: Lesser-known literary delights make perfect holiday gifts 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Bluewater’s biography series was announced in 2008 with two books published the following year devoted to Mrs. Clinton and Sarah Palin under the banner “Female Force,” which went on to profile other powerful women. Here Comes Hillary: Even Comic Books Aren't Immune From Campaign Fever 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Blake Gopnik is the author of Warhol, a comprehensive biography of the Pop artist. Warhol a Lame Copier? The Judges Who Said So Are Sadly Mistaken. 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

It commences, like a super-sleuth literary or political biography, with tempered gloating about the author’s indefatigable fact-finding. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

To complement a new biography of the producer by Vanda Krefft, Film Forum will show a handful of Fox films in December and January. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

“It stopped me in my tracks,” Mr. Paxton wrote in an online biography. Gary S. Paxton, music maverick who produced ‘Monster Mash,’ dies at 77 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

It’s tempting to look for clues to this obsession in Brahms’s biography. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

A dozen or so serve as wonderful little biographies of creative figures — writers and visual artists mainly, as well as filmmakers, performers and others. Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather’ ponders the role of art during times of crisis 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

But I also like Virginia Woolf’s hero/heroine Orlando, with whom I’ve always begun my undergraduate seminar in biography. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

But here, their biographies are exposed throughout: We learn about their childhoods, the pressures they face, the mundane and profound details about their stuff. The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

O’Toole, who has written biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, mostly avoids using Wilson’s career to teach a contemporary political lesson or to judge whether his personality got in the way of his statesmanship. Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a summary-defying blend of art history, biography, nature writing and memoir. A Wide-Roaming and Personal Meditation on Dürer and His Art 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Then he reads biographies of the composers, new historical essays or books, and related novels and plays, especially those that the composer was reading while creating the works. Daniele Gatti, Creative Risk-Taker, Picks Up Baton at Royal Concertgebouw 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The project adds to a flock of film biographies seeking attention, with subjects ranging from Venus and Serena Williams to David Geffen to Franklin D. Roosevelt. ArtsBeat: Movie About Bob Guccione Is Planned 2012-09-13T13:43:46Z

Drawing on a wealth of intimate royal memoirs and biographies, Holden discovered that "How she actually got to be the Princess of Wales is quite unknown." Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

"The editor of the Daily Telegraph says his biography is going to be history," said Clarke. Lady Thatcher's authorised biography sparks excitement and scepticism 2013-04-19T18:33:00Z

If the "Ip Man" movies are better understood as inspirational fantasies about the construction of modern Chinese identity than as biography, they still attest to the renewed vigor of Hong Kong cinema in recent years. "Ip Man 2": China's anti-Western kung fu phenomenon 2011-01-29T01:30:00Z

“The Shadow Drawing” doesn’t offer the conventional satisfactions of biography: the evocation of Leonardo’s world, his paradoxes and idiosyncrasies, that famous fondness for solitude and rose-pink tunics. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

The other, living comfortably in Charlottesville, was immersed in her final work, a biography of the renegade abolitionists and women’s rights advocates Sarah and Angelina Grimké, despite a publisher having deemed them “minor figures.” The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Van Gogh’s fame has always been linked to his complicated biography, and particularly to his madness. New Evidence on van Gogh’s Ear Continues Debate on Painter’s Mental State 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

“It’s a biography. Like a man would write.” Think You Know George Washington? 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

If I were writing my wife’s biography or my father’s biography I would not really feel qualified. The Making of a New M.L.K. Biography: A Q&A With the Author, Jonathan Eig 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Although there are at least 10 biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Cashmore’s lively study provides a compelling interpretation and bridges the many gaps between Taylor’s impact on the American zeitgeist and her alluring, infamous life. Review: ‘Elizabeth Taylor’: the first modern celebrity 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

His biography was unremittingly negative and his moral judgments portrayed him as superior to his subject. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The last 12 months has produced an abundance of biographies. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Crouch is a novelist, cultural critic and biographer whose most recent book is “Kansas City Lightning,” the first part of a planned two-volume biography of the jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Nine Authors, Playwrights Win $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes 1456-09-16T05:00:00Z

“Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, whose courage and achievements were unequivocal, but to complicate it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds,” our critic Jennifer Szalai says. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The seemingly eternal question mark involves David Benedict’s authorized Sondheim biography, which was announced in 2014 complete with a first draft to be submitted in 2017. Getting Close to Sondheim: New Books Try to Capture His Essence 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Bits from this biography have already made Internet gossip ripples. ‘Elon Musk,’ a Biography by Ashlee Vance, Paints a Driven Portrait 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Instead of a straightforward biography, the show explores the trials and tribulations of Tammy Faye’s life alongside the rise of American conservatism under Ronald Reagan. Tammy Faye Bakker and Televangelism Make the Jump to the London Stage 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Set in that middle ground between fanzines and traditional biographies aimed at the younger reader, these publications are the latest chapter in the publishing industry’s presentation of fact-based comics. Comic Book Heroes Drawn From Real Life 2010-07-28T23:00:00Z

But, as Blake Bailey suggests in his extraordinary biography, Cheever absorbed his influences in such a way that identifying them adds little to the work. A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z

Five years later, after a hiatus from directing, Mr. Attenborough returned with what was largely considered to be his biggest flop: “Chaplin,” a long, sprawling biography of the silent film star Charlie Chaplin. Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Other ­minor characters are introduced with full biographies and backgrounds, which isn’t a pacing error but rather a courteous, very Swedish, approach to storytelling. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ by David Lagercrantz 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Now the 84-year-old blues great becomes the subject of the latest installment of the PBS biography series “American Masters.” Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Writers and the Women They Worship These three delightfully deranging books offer alternatives to your staid biographies. Deep Cuts: Writers and the Women They Worship 2013-04-17T19:07:02Z

"I'd never read a royal biography until I did this film," admits the actor, who is is being heavily tipped for an Oscar. Tongue-tied 2011-01-06T08:18:39Z

Certainly Mr. Dial has one of the more amazing art historical biographies on record. Art: Letting His Life?s Work Do the Talking 2011-02-20T02:02:00Z

This is one of the challenges of Kafka biography: humanizing a writer who wasn’t terribly attached to conventionally human points of view. What Color Were Kafka’s Eyes? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

This biography is “unauthorized,” but even though Jones interviewed only a handful of Lucas’s friends and collaborators, he has mined the literature on Lucas’s life and work to produce an admirably comprehensive view. The force is strong with this one: ‘George Lucas,’ by Brian Jay Jones 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Rioux’s book features a useful, highly compressed biography of Alcott and an account of how her most famous novel was written. Why ‘Little Women’ Still Matters, 150 Years On 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

While not his long awaited biography, this coffee table book featured beautifully reproduced artwork plus a succinct biography. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

Morton, best known for an explosive biography of the late Princess Diana 25 years ago, was delivering a speech at a literary lunch organized by The Oldie magazine. UK royal biographer Andrew Morton taken to hospital 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

The author’s own biography tells a less compelling story. Books of The Times: ‘Say Nice Things About Detroit,’ Scott Lasser’s New Novel 2012-08-28T21:15:58Z

The judge’s ruling also applied to Gawker Media, Business Insider, two other Web sites and a biography of Jackson Pollock published by Yale University that wrote about the New Yorker article. ArtsBeat: Forensic Art Expert’s Libel Case Against New Yorker Magazine Is Dismissed 2013-08-02T19:25:37Z

As Daniel Wolff explains in his 1995 biography of Cooke, “You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke,” the folk trio piqued Cooke’s commercial ambitions. The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Researching his biography and his paintings, she added, is “like weaving together a giant tapestry of intersecting threads.” Moonlit Landscapes From a Tormented Painter’s Lucid Moments 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Apparently not “At Canaan’s Edge,” the third volume of Taylor Branch’s monumental biography of King, “Parting the Waters,” with its account of the “historic collaboration” between King and Johnson. “Selma” Vs. “Selma” 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

I watched parts of The Crown while reading The Quest For Queen Mary – a volume of notes James Pope-Hennessy made in the early 1950s while working on the official biography of the Queen’s grandmother. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

The biographies are sold at comic book stores, amazon.com and even Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft stores nationally. Comic Book Heroes Drawn From Real Life 2010-07-28T23:00:00Z

His writing tends to get lost in his biography; the line between his life and his work was always blurred. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

This book has been conceived as an intellectual biography, which gives it a lot of ground to cover. Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

In writing this illuminating biography of James “Cool Papa” Bell, Lonnie Wheeler was faced with sketchy records, chaotic seasons and organizations that mutated constantly. Review | Best audiobooks to listen to now 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

An insightful, non-specialist biography of Vasari and the elevation of Michelangelo and other Renaissance figures from the status of craftsman to that of artists. Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

"He was bedridden due to illness," Chekhov told Gnedich, according to an extract from Sekirin's documentary biography published in the New York Review of Books. Tolstoy thought Chekhov 'worse than Shakespeare' 2011-07-11T14:28:32Z

What differentiates Balagué’s biography from previous attempts is his access to members of Maradona’s inner circle, especially his longtime personal trainer, giving a fresh texture and context to Maradona’s victories and crises. Diego Maradona: Soccer’s Brilliant, Tortured Bad Boy 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

He's written some of the best books on popular song of the past quarter-century, from his engaging "Jazz Singing" to "Stardust Memories," a collection of "biographies" of 12 great standards. 'A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers': The lowdown on great singers 2010-12-08T23:58:00Z

Dromgoole began his reign at the Globe with another book, “Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life,” which won the first Sheridan Morley prize for best theater biography. For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Young progressives “don’t understand why the right keeps winning,” said Sam Tanenhaus, a former editor of The New York Times Book Review who is working on a biography of William F. Buckley. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Mitchell spent a month reading and researching – biographies, transcripts, academic analyses and he made his two actors do the same. The Truth is out there 2011-02-08T14:37:00Z

In this moving biography, Farmelo reconstructs Dirac's extraordinary scientific accomplishments and his tortured inner life. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z

The piece pokes fun at the tedium of artist biographies through a recitation of names and accolades. Review: MATA Festival’s Sounds of Play 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Hobsbawm was obsessed with boredom; his experience of it appears at least twenty-seven times in Evans’s biography. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Unlike Jean Edward Smith’s heftier “Eisenhower in War and Peace,” a major biography that arrived this year, Mr. Thomas’s account does not span the full Eisenhower story. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z

In her youth, she “astonished audiences as much by her compositions as by her playing,” Nancy B. Reich wrote in her milestone 1985 biography “Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman.” Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Professor Gordon-Reed, who called the musical “fictionalized biography,” said the exhibition “attempts to tell the story in broader context.” A New Kind of ‘Hamilton’ Show, This Time on Lake Michigan 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

And there was his biography: a young gay man, uninhibited and unperturbed, from the suburbs that Parisians still typecast as a cultural backwater. Eddy de Pretto Is the Proud Sound of a New France 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

It has to be said that the second half of this biography flags and becomes just a little repetitious. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z

It examines the oppressions of caste and colorism, government surveillance, the abuse of women — all cunningly folded into the biography of an unhappy little goat. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Such nonsense aside, Mackrell's biography of Lopokova was a thrilling one, deeply researched and scrupulously avoiding the cliches that tend to appear whenever "Bloomsbury" is lodged in the title. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-01T10:01:01Z

A little too scattershot and light on details to qualify as either biography or oral history, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Book” is best characterized as a scrapbook. Garry Shandling’s Riotous Scrapbook 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

He's trying to keep the novel he's writing at the moment, a biography of an old man's left foot, along more conventional lines, but finds it very difficult just to begin at the beginning. Thomas Pletzinger: writing the world 2011-03-15T09:58:45Z

Nayantara, who is a highly accomplished writer, gets to tell her side of the story in flashbacks, through conversations with a disciple who is recording material for a biography. As Bollywood Evolves, Women Find Deeper Roles 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

By comparison, White’s scholarly biography is the result of “56 years of professional concentration on Renoir’s paintings, character and personality.” The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Given its overall heft, this book looks like a new biography — following the pioneering work of Richard Bradford and Andrew Motion — and, indeed, does track the major events of Larkin’s 63 years. Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth

Heather Clark is the author of “Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hodges’s biography, threaded with quotations from Walt Whitman, gives eloquent and sensitive testimony to the contrary. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

An official biography says Shadix was born in Bessemer, a suburb of Birmingham, and participated in local theater productions as a youth. 'Beetlejuice' actor Glenn Shadix dies in Alabama 2010-09-08T01:25:00Z

There are five prizes for the best novel, first novel, children's book, poetry book and biography of the year. Meet the Author: Emma Healey 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The award recognizes English-language books in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. Book about Jack the Ripper’s victims wins nonfiction prize 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Chekhov once said that anyone could write a biography of Socrates, but it takes skill to tell the stories of smaller, anonymous lives. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Biography was, he said, a peculiarly British phenomenon: "If you want a biography of Proust, or Mann, or Goethe, or Strindberg, or Ibsen, you found yourself reading a British writer." Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z

I also dipped into a number of biographies and critical works, visited the website of the Kipling Society and tried to clarify my own thoughts about, arguably, the most controversial author in English literature. In defense of Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Books’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

As his career advanced, he gravitated toward writing biographies and helping celebrities write their autobiographies. David Dalton, Rock Writer Who Lived the Scene, Dies at 80 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The best sequences are their capsule biographies, which free Mr. Ayer from the slog of action and allow brief bursts of wit, energy and color. Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ Chases Nihilistic Swagger but Trips Over Its Own Feet 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

"We wanted to bring the familiar story of Anne Frank to life, and the graphic biography is visual and true to reality," says Jacobson. Can Anne Frank's Story be Told in a Comic Book? 2010-11-21T05:25:00Z

He has a Trumpian biography: A second-generation developer who stamps his name on buildings all over the city, he comes from wealth and a legacy of exploitation. Review | In Elliot Ackerman’s ‘Red Dress in Black and White,’ a viral photo at a Turkish protest sets a plot in motion 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

“The Ballets Russes and that circle was a furnace of gossip, and many, many people have published biographies and memoirs who were there at that time, after Diaghilev and Stravinsky were dead.” Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z

Much of this will be familiar to readers of countless books on Keynes, including Lord Skidelsky’s definitive biographies. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

“What was the next book you read after all those biographies on me?” Sparring with Mike Tyson 2012-08-09T04:48:00Z

She recognizes that there are significant consequences over who gets to tell his tale, but Miranda might want to probe a little further into his own relationship to Hamilton's biography. Through 'Hamilton,' the Founding Fathers might once again make history 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

By evening’s end, you’ll be surprised by the iridescent clarity that has emerged from Mr. Stoppard’s artfully chaotic assemblage of rampant speculation, literary texts, great-man biography parodies, legal documents, political tracts and rude schoolboy japes. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

On one level, it’s a biography of Mr. Hampton, who grew up in an upper-middle-class black family in St. Louis. Review: ‘True South’ Illuminates the Man Behind ‘Eyes on the Prize’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe or one of these new recommendations from our Books desk. Things to Do in New York That Are Not the Governors Ball 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

My favorite description arrives in Fiji, where the author is surfing at the same time he is, when on land, reading a Hitler biography. Review: ‘Barbarian Days,’ by William Finnegan, Details a Surfer’s Pilgrimage 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The Scholars and Writers for America list includes Conrad Black, the former newspaper publisher of the Jerusalem Post and the Chicago Sun-Times, and author of biographies of Richard Nixon and Franklin Roosevelt. Authors in support of Donald Trump are conservative thinkers and academics — plus one radical Marxist 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

But where was Olivier Todd’s biography of Camus — a hardback that I’d reviewed when the English edition came out in 1997? Lost and Found: A Missing Camus Biography and a Christmas Miracle 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Ozick, who is a gifted writer, absolutely brings to life, in her peerless prose and perceptiveness, the character of both Roth and the biography itself. Philip Roth, ‘Middlemarch’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

That’s easy — a really good biography by a really good writer, about someone fascinating. Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

In 1981, Philip Norman wrote “Shout!,” one of the finest Beatles biographies. The fullest biography of Paul McCartney ever 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

In this way, Evan Thomas’s book is not just a biography of a remarkable woman, but an elegy for a worldview that, in law as well as politics, has disappeared from the nation’s main stages. An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Stiles won the biography prize, and "Tinkers," by Paul Harding, won the fiction award. 'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama 2010-04-12T19:14:00Z

Newton’s biography traces his role in the state’s remarkable growth. New & Noteworthy, From Narco Fiction to Governing California 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

His mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, he said in a biography on his website. Kinkade: Artist drew many fans, few critical raves 2012-04-07T22:31:09Z

His official biography tells how he bought his first bass guitar for £5 after a bassoon he played in an orchestra was stolen. Ex-Japan bassist Mick Karn dies 2011-01-05T14:08:55Z

The other sections — biography, autobiography, theater, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, classical literature, literary criticism, art, photography, books by friends — are not alphabetized. ‘Why Have a Large Library and Not Use It?’ Janet Malcolm: By the Book 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Paul Alexander is the author of “Rough Magic,” a biography of Sylvia Plath, and “Edge,” a one-woman play about her. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

The subject of R J Smith’s 2012 biography “The One: The Life and Music of James Brown” lived a life that was, to say the least, highly visible. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Capturing the Elusive Robert Frank 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

James Curtis captures the dueling sides of Sahl’s persona in “Last Man Standing,” his fair-minded new biography. What silenced the laughs for Mort Sahl, the once towering American comic? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, Mr. Allen’s art in particular is saturated with his personality, his preoccupations, his biography and his tastes. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

This impressive if gratuitously snarly biography is clearly intended to break the 44th president’s monopoly on his personal narrative. A Take-No-Prisoners Biography of Barack Obama Examines His Early Love Life 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Salinger wrote back attempting to dissuade him from his biography. 'The Escape Artist': Thomas Beller Talks About J. D. Salinger 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Bush’s opening essay and the capsule biographies he writes about each subject are charming. George W. Bush’s best-selling book of paintings shows curiosity and compassion 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Other acquaintances expressed disappointment that his authorized biography focused so heavily on his private life and less on his fiction. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Colvin liked Arafat but sparred with him over his failure to suppress Palestinian violence; she was commissioned to write an Arafat biography, but could never find the discipline to finish it. She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

He provides all the facts, to be interpreted as you like — a welcome alternative to overly psychoanalytical, theory-driven biographies. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Cole was also the primary source for Stephen Davis’s 1985 biography “Hammer of the Gods,” a book that solidified the posthumous image of Led Zeppelin as heathen reprobates. Review | A look at the man who helped solidify Led Zeppelin’s hard-partying reputation 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Even in Adam Sisman’s definitive 2015 biography, written after many hours of conversations with Mr. le Carré as well as archival access, Mr. le Carré held things back. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

However, he said, the decline of the biography also means the dawn of a new age of experiment. Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z

Soon she is tackling Proust, discussing Jean Genet with the president of France and delving into biographies of Sylvia Plath. An Inscrutable Monarch, Endlessly Scrutinized Onstage and Onscreen 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Dr. Yellin’s biography delves into the accuracy of Ms. Jacobs’s account. Jean Fagan Yellin, Who Uncovered a Slavery Tale’s True Author, Dies at 92 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

Controversy, too, is avoided; as Dwight Garner, a critic for The New York Times, once wrote in a review of a Wiesenthal biography, he “was a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.” ‘Wiesenthal,’ a One-Man Show by Tom Dugan 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

As with Dancer, his fictionalised biography of Nureyev, McCann embroiders the facts but it doesn't matter. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - reviews 2011-08-26T21:55:06Z

In under two decades, aided by a well-regarded biography and a soapy biopic, Kahlo had undergone transformation from a compelling cult figure to a universally recognized symbol of artistic triumph and feminist struggle. Frida Kahlo Is Having a Moment 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

According to Billy Bush's NBC News biography posted online, he earned a bachelor's degree in international studies and government from Colby College in Maine. Billy Bush under fire along with Trump for lewd comments 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Cinematic biographies of the famous are not documentaries. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

In nonfiction, you might like Barry Sonnenfeld’s Hollywood memoir, or Alexander Norman’s biography of the Dalai Lama, or Sierra Crane Murdoch’s account of fracking and murder on an Indian reservation in North Dakota. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Does knowing more about Herman Heukels’s personal biography imply that historians should use these photographs in a different way — or even use them less often? Photos That Helped to Document the Holocaust Were Taken by a Nazi 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

And all of these follow on the heels of at least another half-dozen magisterial biographies published in the past two decades, including Martin Brecht’s exhaustive three-volume masterpiece, “Martin Luther,” which Metaxas praises as “unsurpassable.” Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Lost to Her Friends, but There All the Time To what extent are even the most exhaustive biographies unsolved detective stories? Movie Review: ‘Dreams of a Life’ Looks at Joyce Vincent 2012-08-02T20:52:19Z

Its implicit suggestion was that your selfish brats were doomed to repeat your biography, that humanity could never get off the burning wheel of Ixion. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Wilson’s mammoth effort from 1962 is an attempt to understand the war through a mixture of literary criticism and biography. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

P. N. Furbank, a British critic and scholar whose life of E. M. Forster was widely viewed as one of the 20th century’s leading achievements in literary biography, died on June 27 in London. P. N. Furbank, Biographer of E. M. Forster, Dies at 94 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

But a granular knowledge of formal logic isn’t essential for anyone’s enjoyment of this moving new biography. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

And I am also excited about his upcoming biography, “Kissinger. Volume I: The Idealist.” Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The show’s final portions are disappointing, particularly the capsule biographies of soldiers: “New Yorkers Who Served.” Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z

Other biographies report on this, but not with such gruesomely poetic imagery. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Mizruchi believed there was room for a different kind of biography. 'Brando's Smile' biography goes below the surface to find the actor 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The presenter, who fronted Channel 4's Paralympic coverage last month, launched her biography My Animals and Other Family in September. Balding to host BBC One quiz show 2012-10-19T10:21:56Z

Perhaps, but on balance this is as dishy a biography about dishes as can be imagined. A Transporting and Cozy Biography of a Pottery Pioneer 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

In places, her book reads more like social history than biography. The Woman Who Created a Monster 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

As long as there has been biography, there has always been pushback to writers' prying into their subjects' lives. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

This is the first biography of Sontag to be published since her death, in 2004.—R.A. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

This Christmas, the prime minister may want to immerse himself in the biography of another rock icon. Christmas reading for the rich and famous: what do you recommend? 2012-12-21T15:09:13Z

He has also been cooperative with Walter Isaacson, who has written biographies of Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein and is now working on a book about Mr. Musk. For Better and for Worse, Elon Musk Is His Own Spokesman 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

And speaking of exile, Rosenmüller’s biography may also gain wider scrutiny in this era of “me too” sexual revelations. Review: Ending the Year With a Pair of Early-Music Ensembles 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

For a deep dive into the life of a musical genius, composer Jan Swafford’s biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart provides a well-rounded portrait that will speak to musicians and laypeople alike. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

In articles for Vanity Fair and New York magazines, her specialty was connecting the dots of a biography to show how character was destiny. Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

But Hagan, to his credit, approached the book not as a rose-tinted “authorized biography” but as a serious work of narrative journalism. Jann Wenner doesn’t like the new book about him. But you just might. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

She is the author of “American Chica” as well as a biography of Simón Bolívar. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo

The biography was published late last year in Coetzee's native South Africa and in Australia, where the author now lives. JM Coetzee's official biography to hit shelves this summer 2013-03-21T16:05:07Z

Prof Francis O'Gorman, from the University of Leeds, is fascinated by the idea of the real and imagined on the edges of writers' biographies. In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

While working on the Sandburg biography, Ms. Niven grew interested in the life of photographer Edward Steichen, whose sister was married to Sandburg. Penelope Niven, who wrote about 20th-century cultural figures, dies at 75

Jessie J originally said in her biography that she wouldn't be back but changed her mind by the time the book was published in the summer. BBC confirms judges for The Voice 2012-11-13T18:06:45Z

Still, in later years he relaxed a little, spoke more openly about sources and influences, and co-operated with Michael Billington on a biography. Harold Pinter's Moonlight at the Donmar 2011-04-01T10:54:25Z

But he didn’t recall much about John Mitchell, so he turned to “The Strong Man,” the 2008 biography by James Rosen, and spoke to experts. In ‘Gaslit,’ a Victim of Watergate and History Finds Rescue 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

A biography of the revolutionary mathematician who, like his friend Albert Einstein, found refuge from Hitler in Princeton. New & Noteworthy, From the Brat Pack to a Math Biography 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

As a 16-year-old in Traralgon, Victoria, he became smitten with Weimar culture when his father gave him a biography of Marlene Dietrich. Unconventional Summer Stars, Including a Helicopter 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Probably not, said Duane W. Roller, a retired classics professor who just published a biography of Cleopatra. Skin Deep: Gold Face Cream: A Costly Leap of Faith 2010-05-24T22:51:00Z

"There are obvious problems in writing a group biography if the group covers a wide range of success and failure, including one figure of international reputation." Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

The concept is simple, if unorthodox: Users build fantasy profiles by selecting a photo from a bevy of attractive people and creating a fictitious biography and name. Noticed: I?m Not Real, but Neither Are You 2011-05-20T19:41:15Z

I gave a lecture in Australia once in which I said there was no such thing as a definitive biography. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

The Washington bureau chief of USA Today’s intimate biography of the Bush matriarch is written with a reporter’s knack for detail. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

A generous, appreciative biography of Robin Williams by a New York Times culture reporter. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

On the evidence of “The Publisher,” Alan Brinkley’s graceful and judicious biography, Luce began as an arrogant, awkward boy and did not grow any more beguiling as his fortunes rose. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z

Julia Van Haaften, the founding curator of the New York Public Library’s photography collection, has written the first full-dress biography of her. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

The Samuel Johnson Prize recognizes English-language books from any country in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. ‘The Pike’ Wins Samuel Johnson Nonfiction Prize 2013-11-04T22:10:22Z

She listened to recordings, watched interviews and performance footage, read multiple biographies. A Tough Mama Tries to Find Her Inner Diva 2011-06-23T23:07:53Z

Joseph Berger, a retired reporter for The Times and the author of “Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust,” is writing a biography of Elie Wiesel. The Street Where ‘They Do Strange Things’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

She was able to put together 390 biographies, each of which has been added to a new database. She Discovered What Happened to 400 Dutch Jews Who Disappeared 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

And it extends to the philosophy that infuses the show, created by Gene Roddenberry, who was raised a Southern Baptist but came to consider himself a humanist, according to his authorized biography. To Boldly Explore the Jewish Roots of ‘Star Trek’ 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

Have you read a lot of presidential biographies? Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

A 1951 biography was the first to claim publicly that Dickinson had romances with women. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

“If you think of the list of people who have seen a president in his underwear, it’s pretty small,” says Matthew Algeo, author of a biography of Cleveland. The secret history of America’s ailing presidents and the doctors who covered up for them 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

He was referring to Mark Harris, an author and journalist who is now at work on a biography of Mike Nichols. Inside the Tony Awards After-Parties 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

A new biography, by Ann Marks, a former corporate executive with a background in analyzing “everyday people,” rejects this idea of exploitation. ‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

But as factual biography, “A Room and a Half” is sketchy. 2010-01-20T05:20:00Z

Dodgson’s is a less fanciful, more scrupulous biography. Ken Kesey bio: Journey from farm kid to Merry Prankster 2013-12-24T21:27:41Z

In his recent biography, Kitchen also implicated Speer, Sr., in the expulsion of thousands of Jews from their homes in Berlin and in the widespread use of slave labor to complete his projects. The Complicated Architecture of Albert Speer, Jr. 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

His organization, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, even provided materials for the classroom: The Negro History Bulletin featured stories and biographies of black people. Letters to the Editor 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Scarlett, 35, and Mr. McMillan, 58, share similar biographies — both were born and raised in Southern California, and both know their way around a red carpet event. Two Hairstylists on Respect and Navigating Egos (Hint: It’s Not the Celebrities) 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Sullivan brings an amazing amount of detail to the biography. Michael Jackson’s legacy is “Untouchable” 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

More information, including installation locations and artist biographies, will be made available on the biennial's website, currentla.org. Mayor Eric Garcetti announces artists for L.A.'s first public art biennial to be held this summer 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

A widow named CM attempts to unravel her late wife’s past by writing her biography: As an incendiary, boundary-pushing artist, her wife, X, had fascinated and eluded public understanding. 22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

In his 17th biography of the artist, Giorgio Vasari wrote: “Because he took delight in all things, he set his hand to doing everything, without considering whether it was insignificant or prestigious.” Donatello Gets His Due 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which opened this month on Broadway, works beyond the level of biography. Rocking the Vote, In the 1820s and Now 2010-10-22T23:03:00Z

The book doubles as a biography of the ruthless striver Adolph "Creepy" Zukor, an orphaned Hungarian immigrant with a 10th-grade education who developed a handful of penny arcades into the empire of Paramount Pictures. How Hollywood scandal was born 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

This year, a taste of Hollywood glam, hefty biographies of Broadway and film legends, studies of a beloved musical and a notorious Spidey tuner are good bets for the showbiz mavens on your gift list. Top 5 performing-arts gift books: Hollywood glam, ‘Fiddler’ 2013-12-13T20:56:00Z

But as long as biographies are written by and about human beings, scientific precision will remain an ideal. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z

This biography sends you racing back to Iceberg Slim’s own oeuvre. Review: ‘Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim’ Studies the Life of a Pimp 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

This biography will often make the reader feel lashed to the mast, too. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Bird shared a Pulitzer in 2005 for "American Prometheus," his magisterial biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Acocella, who writes apropos of a new biography of Gorey, notes many of the aesthetic tics that mark his work, even when the image is simply one of cats on a bed. Edward Gorey’s “Cat Fancy” 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Gibbons's nephew Reggie Oliver, who wrote an excellent biography of his aunt, told me he was sure she felt more proud of than of any of her other books. Westwood by Stella Gibbons 2011-07-29T21:53:01Z

Unger draws not just from his own wide knowledge and considered taste but from an imposing array of journals, memoirs, biographies and periodicals. Review | How Picasso’s she-devils changed art forever 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

"I'm confident Robert Hilburn will write an insightful book. I enjoyed and admired his biography of Johnny Cash and I think he'll tell my story well." Authorized Paul Simon biography to come from Robert Hilburn 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Gandhi has been the subject of at least 30 full-length biographies in English alone. Books of The Times: Appreciating Gandhi Through His Human Side 2011-03-29T19:55:27Z

Stefan Zweig was extremely famous throughout the world as a writer of novellas and short stories, as well as popular histories and biographies, so it is remarkable that he wrote only one full-length novel. Rereading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 2011-07-15T21:55:08Z

Returning to the National after a notable absence, the “History Boys” scribe Alan Bennett fused biography with his own, often hilarious tribute to the theater in “The Habit of Art.” 2009-12-30T05:50:00Z

Sherwin always knew that the hearing that stripped Oppenheimer of his clearance would be the “epicenter” of the biography, Bird said. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

Adapted from a biography by Denise Paraná, this portrait of the statesman Time magazine named as the most influential world leader in 2010 is a conventional, rather shallow up-by-your-bootstraps drama, but with a difference. 'Lula, Son of Brazil': An upbeat look at rise of leader for the people 2012-03-08T22:02:08Z

I still love Invisible Man, but after Arnold Rampersad’s 2007 biography of Ralph Ellison, in which Ellison comes off as proud and prickly, I no longer fantasize about having dinner with him. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z

At 191 pages, “Becoming RBG” is more than twice as long as Fawkes’s biography of Brontë, but tonally and visually it skews younger. Charlotte Brontë and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Before the World Knew Them 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Loosely based on Ron Chernow’s exhaustive biography, “Hamilton” takes its share of liberties with actual events and characters. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Many of Brown's books are published with bilingual English/Spanish texts, and many are picture-book biographies of notable Latinos. Monica Brown's Latino focus inspires kids 2011-11-05T04:46:37Z

The critic Elizabeth Hardwick called biography “a scrofulous cottage industry,” adding that it was rarely redeemed by “some equity between the subject and the author.” The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

I admire how Mr. Kors, who is no shrinking violet, released very few details about his wedding to Lance LePere this summer, but even he included a full biography with his press notes. On the Runway Blog: Michael Kors: Poor Man's Safari 2011-09-14T16:39:11Z

The Chicago company Manual Cinema will present its shadow puppet-infused mash-up of Mary Shelley’s novel and her biography in the festival, which runs from Jan. 3 through Jan. 13. The 2019 Under the Radar Festival to Feature Frankenstein and Chekhov 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Her own biography reads like a piece of popular pulp: Born in 1878, heiress to the International Harvester fortune, tutored at home in Chicago in a stark, stone mansion, designed by H.H. Heiress Plotted 19 Grisly Crimes. Investigation Underway. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Nannerl, the subject of at least three novels also titled “Mozart’s Sister,” is in this film meant to be something more than a chapter in her brother’s biography though it’s not exactly clear what. | 'Mozart?s Sister': The Other Child in Papa Mozart?s Musical Troupe 2011-08-18T23:26:03Z

The historical novelist Max Byrd wrote in The New York Times that Mr. Cash’s biography “now takes its place as the standard scholarly life.” Arthur H. Cash, Definitive Laurence Sterne Biographer, Dies at 94 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Stanley Crouch did something similar in “Kansas City Lightning,” his recent biography of Charlie Parker. Review: Zachary Leader’s ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

In an author’s note, Curtis announces that this biography of Hardwick will include “only as much information about her famous husband, the poet Robert Lowell, as is necessary to tell the story of her life.” The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Here, the target is the prestige biography and its rote rise-and-fall trajectory that’s become so creaky, it could play backup on his album “Polka Party!” ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Any Odd? He Beat It. 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mark Eisner’s new biography, “Neruda: The Poet’s Calling,” explores the complex confluence of factors that accounts for Neruda’s extraordinary fame and success. Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Parini does not have to make up the events of Melville's life, but he does have to fill considerable gaps in his subject's biography. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z

Although repeated by the historian Ron Chernow in the Hamilton biography on which the musical is based, the anecdote has been debunked by musicologists who have studied the era. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this is because he's had a far less heavyweight literary career path: apart from Mrs Bridge, he is best known for a similarly slim sequel, Mr Bridge, and a biography of General Custer. Overlooked classics of American literature: Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell 2012-10-02T13:41:50Z

Yet there is more to this biography than simply access to new source material. The Victorian Poet Who Sought to Capture Everyday Life in Her Verse 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

It became less distant after he stumbled across the biography of Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jewish doctor and children's author who helped run an orphanage for 200 Jewish children. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z

For starters, Thomas Dunne writes, "The revealing new biography draws on multiple exclusive interviews with 'the Donald' himself" — not that getting Trump to talk about himself has ever been a problem. Donald Trump's story is too good, publisher decides, moves bio up three months 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

“Standards for literary biography were set in Victorian time, a time when they wanted writers to set a moral example for public school educated young men,” Ms. Duncan-Jones told The Coventry Evening Telegram in 2001. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Their biographies are remarkably similar in other respects, too. | 'Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway': Another Long and Winding Detour 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z

“A Dominant Character” is the best Haldane biography yet. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

"His life's work, and his stunning prose, teaches us to better understand political influence, American democracy, and the true power of biography." Robert Caro to receive honorary National Book Award medal 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, but to complicate it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

More than merely a compilation, these songs gleaned from sets recorded between 1946 and 1959, the year she died at age 44, create an unsparing biography of decline told through Holiday's voice. Hulu's irksome "United States vs. Billie Holiday" is a stunning, soul-wrenching debut for Audra Day 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

Joan Rivers passed away at age 81 less than two weeks ago but a new biography is already in the works. Joan Rivers biography announced; book coming in 2016 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Would anyone seriously interested in Oppenheimer seek out a biography for this?: Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z

Reading Jonathan Alter’s weighty new biography, “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life,” one can’t help thinking of a mischievous question: Is it possible to pick a single most humiliating moment of Carter’s presidency? The Feats and Failures of Jimmy Carter 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Joy is really a collage, bits filched from the biography of its lead as much as its subject. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Its subject is the life and work of the pioneering suffragist Susan B. Anthony, but it is no straightforward biography. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z

Some of what he says is a shot to the arm: yes, to keeping biography separate from criticism. National Gallery director writes off video, conceptual art, performance art 2012-10-15T08:07:26Z

Probing biographies, archives and her subjects' own writing, Shapiro argues that food and diet open revealing windows into character. Her Food, Her Self 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

“The practical limitations of forming a band with only two drummers soon became apparent,” Mr. Rossington’s biography on the band’s website notes, “and Gary gravitated toward playing the guitar.” Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist, Dies at 71 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Thirteen years after his excellent “Heavier Than Heaven” Cobain biography was published, Cross has certainly earned the right to reflect on the artist’s legacy, and he gamely tries to avoid overt hagiography. ‘Here We Are Now’: 20 years after Kurt Cobain’s death 2014-03-27T21:14:15Z

It delves into van Gogh’s life and his death in 1890, which according to some recent studies — namely Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith’s biography, “Van Gogh: The Life” — may have been murder, not suicide. Animating van Gogh’s Life With 62,450 Oil Paintings 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The author makes no pretensions to objectivity and, in truth, this is more Hallmark card than biography. George W. Bush’s ‘41: A Portrait of My Father’ 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

He then enrolled at Columbia University, where he wrote a dissertation that became his biography of Morse. Carleton Mabee, Biographer of Morse, Dies at 99 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

This first full-fledged biography of the poet is full of rich and fascinating detail. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Totaling almost 3,000 pages, Branch's exhaustive biography provides a deep look into King's life. Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. in books 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

When Martin Stannard released his biography of the writer last year, it was widely mooted that she was due a revival. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z

Photograph: Allstar Picture Library On the pages of Photoplay, stars could appear to speak directly to their fans, either in “authored” pieces or in profiles and biographies. Photoplay magazine: the birth of celebrity culture 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Short, who has also written biographies of Mao and Pol Pot, draws on hundreds of interviews for this portrait, charting Putin’s transformation into a ruthless autocrat. 12 New Books Coming in July 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Seattle-based journalist, author and Middle East expert Lesley Hazleton attempts to set things right on both counts with her richly detailed and beautifully written biography, “The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad.” Biography paints portrait of Muhammad as prophet, man 2013-01-17T22:06:50Z

It’s the biography of a few notable stones, including a 20-ton chunk of pockmarked meteorite, mica prepared in Nazi concentration camps and the layer of marble running under Manhattan. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

In a few recent interviews the filmmakers stress that this is not the definitive biography of Kanye West, a declaration mainly made in response to another social media post in which Ye demanded final cut. If "Jeen-Yus" is in the eye of the beholder, this film doesn't adequately explain Kanye West's 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

One of his newest is "We Are America,"featuring illustrations by his artist son Christopher Myers — and nonfiction, such as "The Greatest,"a biography of Muhammad Ali. Meet the new kid-lit ambassador 2012-01-14T07:24:59Z

Based on Osnos’s reporting for The New Yorker, this biography covers the candidate’s career as a senator and vice president as well as his life on the campaign trail. New & Noteworthy, From Joe Biden to a Rock Novel in Verse 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

It pushes past biography or storytelling, and enters the realms of the psychic, the global, the cosmic. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

You want to begin a review of “The Man in the Glass House,” Mark Lamster’s stimulating and lively new biography of Philip Johnson, by saying something about architecture. A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Instead, Haygood, who has written biographies of Sugar Ray Robinson and Sammy Davis Jr., frames the book through this confirmation fight. Wil Haygood's 'Showdown' explores Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court nomination fight 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

At 24, Ms. Grossan had been appointed the series editor of the publisher Bloomsbury’s 33⅓ Series, a collection of biographies about individual music albums and artists. Cemetery Was the Right Vibe for a Glamour Goth Wedding 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Change doesn’t always happen because of one person, but that’s what makes for great biographies.” In the Woman?s Movement, Who Will Replace Gloria Steinem? 2012-03-17T00:33:53Z

Motion regarded the writing of Larkin's biography as "one of the most important things I'll ever be asked to do in my life", and he still feels the same way about it now. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z

"Mrs. Nixon" isn't a definitive biography — and isn't remotely meant to be — but it's a vivid, elegant study of two women: the subject and the biographer/storyteller, entwining in the imagination. 'Mrs. Nixon': Stories, real and imagined, of an enigmatic first lady 2011-12-01T00:41:04Z

Recent reads included a biography of Malcolm X and another of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Author Chris Hedges: 'This is what corporate exploitation does to you' 2012-06-20T22:00:07Z

I had been reading high-minded founding father biographies to third graders at the Academy of the City, a charter school in Queens, where I serve on the board. Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

He was the author of “David Merrick: The Abominable Showman,” a biography of the prolific Broadway producer whose shows included “Gypsy” and “42nd Street.” Howard Kissel, Daily News Theater Critic, Dies at 69 2012-02-27T06:57:42Z

Mr. O’Connor not only criticized the method but also accused its creator, Shinichi Suzuki, of fabricating parts of his biography to promote it. Mark O’Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

An editor’s foreword to “Janis: Her Life and Music” calls this “the first major biography of Janis Joplin,” which is not exactly true. Review | ‘Janis’ celebrates one of the most incandescent musicians of our time 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

This is the case with “A Dangerous Woman,” Susan Ronald’s energetic biography of Florence Gould, who as the subtitle makes clear was an “American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator.” The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

He was asked to write the biography many times, and he said Cromwell was “not biographable,” a word he invented. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Nonfiction Version of Thomas Cromwell’s Life 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

So it was with no little excitement that I began this biography. ‘Man in Profile’ stirs controversy over the work of a New Yorker great 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

He inspired a generation of writers, some of whom gathered last night to celebrate the publication of his biography An Adventure by Artemis Cooper. AUDIO: Patrick Leigh Fermor's 'magical' tour 2012-10-18T10:17:16Z

But despite being the subject of at least two biographies, Meyer remains largely a mystery, a glamorous cipher. A Real-Life J.F.K. Lover, Murdered in 1964, Stars in Two New Novels 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

“There’s so many biographies of her but still nobody really knows who she was, and there’s an incredible amount of mystery to that that I find very sensual and attractive.” Pablo Larraín on His Latest Films, ‘Jackie’ and ‘Neruda’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

A former New Books columnist at Harper’s Magazine, he is currently writing the authorized biography of Susan Sontag. Which Canonical Work is Frequently and Frustratingly Misread? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

But at least Harman's meticulous, affectionate biography reassures us that her afterlife is in good hands. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Its finalists in six categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, criticism and autobiography — are selected by an elected 24-member board, which also selects the winners. National Book Critics Circle announces finalists, but misses one of the biggest novels of 2016 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Rat turns out to be a pseudonym, and his official biography largely fictional. Movie Review: In ‘Adult World,’ a Naïf Dreams of Literary Glory 2014-02-13T23:21:16Z

After all, that chamber of our national pantheon is guarded by a number of fine biographies, including Edmund Morris’s Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy. Review | Teddy Roosevelt and his pet cougar leap into action 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

The immediacy somehow dovetails with the tabloid tawdriness of his biography, with the whole modern celebrity drama. Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine 2010-03-10T02:49:00Z

“To the readers of her poetry and her biography, Sylvia Plath will always be young and in a rage” over the unfaithfulness of her husband Ted Hughes. A Newly Published Story for the New Way We Read Sylvia Plath 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

All of those winning films were biographies or chronicles of a scene or community. ‘Summer of Soul’ Reclaims a Concert Documentary Tradition 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

In this sense, Barnes’s latest is a sharp commentary on biography — the phrase “we cannot know” echoes not as a statement of failure but an ethic. Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The novel was a new thing—a long, fictitious, drama-filled work of prose—and its competitors were other prose genres: histories, biographies, political tracts, sermons, testimonies about travel to far-off lands. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Nothing in their careers would lead a fan to imagine that a chapter in their biographies would be titled “Show Tunes!” For Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, musical theater isn’t so wild and crazy 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

There are indeed a lot of bad, gossipy biographies and memoirs of Picasso – but Richardson's is not one of them. Picasso – separating truth and fiction 2013-07-10T14:32:55Z

Art historians rediscovered him in the 1920s, but soon muddied his biography with legends and typos. Antiques: Condemning Slavery With a Paintbrush 2011-07-14T21:51:43Z

By the time she started work on “The Postcard,” Berest had plenty of experience with biography. An Unsigned Postcard Named Four Family Members Who Died in the Holocaust. Why? 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

It sits in a display case of African artifacts and complicates Mr. Dion’s Clark-centric narrative with hints of other, untold biographies. Art In Review: MARK DION: ‘Phantoms of the Clark Expedition’ 2012-07-26T20:01:48Z

Originally published “The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown,” Penny Junor’s book is a measured biography of the queen and her relationship with King Charles. Royal Reads: 6 Books About British Monarchs and Coronations 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

I “read” David Blight’s Frederick Douglass biography last summer on lengthy bike rides on quiet roads in Santa Barbara under summer skies and overhanging trees. Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

“When another student arrived at the station with eight trunks and a maid, Miss Charlotte asked which of the trunks contained underclothes,” according to Noland’s biography. What would you do if a rich aunt doubled your nest egg? That’s what happened to the all-girls school Foxcroft. 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The portion of Thursday’s announcement with her biography totaled 499 words. ArtsBeat: Cowell Lands Cheryl Cole as Judge for 'The X Factor' 2011-05-05T16:36:27Z

Michael Gross, in his Lauren biography “Genuine Authentic,” wrote that Ms. Aldredge asked Paramount to take Mr. Lauren’s name off the film’s credits if he continued to bask in the limelight. Theoni V. Aldredge, Costume Designer, Dies at 88 2011-01-22T05:15:21Z

A good example is Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, which doesn’t include the fact that he was both gay and in love with George Washington. Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

"A political advertising man has taken the place of generations of socialist philosophers," observed Anthony Seldon in his Blair biography, published in 2004. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z

It highlights more than a dozen of the city’s most rebellious women of the Victorian era through biographies, prints and photographs culled from the museum’s collections. These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Does that sound like the biography of the most expensive artist of a generation, planet-wide? Let’s Pause to Appreciate Basquiat’s Hundred-Million-Dollar Painting 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Behind the curtain of biography, betrayal and striving, “Fosse/Verdon” undresses into a story about haunted people, a pair of artists inexorably pushed by past abuses and the fear of failure they produced. FX's "Fosse/Verdon" dances, after a little warm up 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

Whether picking apart a Jorge Luis Borges biography or writing about films and books that glorify math, Wallace comes off as a man who thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. ‘Both Flesh and Not’: essays by David Foster Wallace 2012-12-27T19:23:07Z

While the scholar Carlos Baker quoted this section in his 1969 biography, “Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story,” the notebook itself was hidden away for years. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Mr. Zander’s biography on the Boston Philharmonic website calls him “the center of an intense, at times almost cultlike following.” Review: A Deep Dive Into Benjamin Zander’s ‘Shining Eyes’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

"There's a sort of biography in the parts you play, if you look back at them," he says. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z

All this makes “JFK” less a biography than a love story, about a couple that Mr. Vavrek’s smart libretto calls “too perfect, too alliterative.” ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

It was mixing up biography with the lyrics. Ballad of a Bin Man: A.J. Weberman, the man who says he’s behind Bob Dylan’s Nobel Award for Literature 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Now he’s back with a massive biography that focuses just on Paul McCartney. The fullest biography of Paul McCartney ever 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The fictionalized drama is based on the biography of a Japanese woman who co-founded a famous supermarket chain and her multiple hardships from her childhood until her final days in the 1980s. Hashida, who wrote ‘Oshin,’ many other hit dramas dies at 95 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a biography less defined by seamless continuity than a progression of serial identities. Perspective | The journey of Jane Fonda: ‘I’ve always been curious. I’ve never really wanted to settle.’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

By late afternoon on March 11, Susanne was home, sitting on the living room couch reading a biography of Osama bin Laden. Sweet boy taken from her arms 2012-11-11T12:59:00Z

Adams is the subject of a thumbnail biography in the text, for example, but is not represented by a single image. Review | How photography became the ‘dominant form of recording the world’ 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

After getting the new acclaimed biography of Da Vinci, I'm interested in learning about those Renaissance sorts of characters. Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Scholars now think that more than half a dozen people in Beer’s biography were concocted, too—including many whom Beer had credited as sources. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

I saw a story about Mark Twain — it was not his biography, it was a fictional piece with actors. David Lee Roth Is Letting His Art (Mostly) Do the Talking 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

As Leader points out, Bellow was a highly autobiographical novelist, and in the early part of the biography he connects nearly every real-life incident to its reference in Bellow’s fiction — unpublished and published. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The actor was born in Pittsburgh but moved to Britain in 1974 where he was most recently working as a screenwriter, according to his biography on IMDb. Stars Wars actor Richard LeParmentier dies at 66 2013-04-17T10:42:46Z

“Unlike most of the protagonists of doorstop biographies of that age, Copley found the patriot cause vexing, even terrifying,” she said. Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wilson was born in Fort Worth in 1948 and grew up singing in her church choir, according to a biography provided by Mr. Riggs. Ruby Wilson, Singer Known as Queen of Beale Street, Dies at 68 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

There was all that martyr talk, even after Ted's death … in America there were a couple of biographies that were terribly bad. Interview: Olwyn Hughes, Sylvia Plath's literary executor 2013-01-18T17:12:15Z

Jobs was of course a hugely influential and often controversial figure, and the movie is based on his bestselling biography by Walter Isaacson. 'Steve Jobs' trailer: Michael Fassbender takes on a tech iCon 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Some of this biography’s strongest chapters detail their peripatetic war years. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

There are scores of books about the Manhattan Project, and so many biographies, documentaries and, of course, archives. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Those wits are gone in “The Life of Saul Bellow,” a dry, digressive and oddly stunted biography that seems to have been written less on autopilot than on autofill. Review: Zachary Leader’s ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Over the course of nine galleries and 150 works, their effort weaves together art, biography and history into a rich, illuminating narrative. Art Review: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French Artist of Multiple Passions 2014-03-27T22:29:43Z

It is part biography of a friendship and part account of psychology’s impact, while also taking in much of modern Israel’s history. Thinking about thinking 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

And picking Walter Isaacson to write his biography—that wasn’t coincidence. Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender on the Problem With Picking Winners in the Arts 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

While the results reflected the widespread audience and critical acclaim for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop biography of Alexander Hamilton, they did not quite match the record 12 prizes bestowed on the musical “The Producers” in 2001. ‘Hamilton’ doesn’t hit a record at the Tonys, but dominates the night 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

You feature a number of them in this "American Experience" biography. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

About the biography he blurbs, “A major achievement, or should I say major major major?” in honor of Major Major, a major character in Heller’s “Catch-22.” Books of The Times: The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers 2011-07-27T22:06:58Z

The unresolved torment of her son Gianni's death aged seven from meningitis also aches through the biography. Iris Origo: the author honoured by a music festival 2012-07-06T21:55:22Z

Q: You are a self-proclaimed lover of memoirs and biographies. Gabrielle Union wants to talk about the tough stuff. You ready? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Another new way of doing biography is to organise your narrative around the objects that carried a particular emotional charge for your subject. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z

“Unfortunately, success is not what fashion editors like: That is something that comes when an anonymous woman in the street wants to wear it,” he said in the biography. Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer, dies at 82

A train of thought that started with my work on the BS Johnson biography was how much we ask from literature, and can it deliver . A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

In the mid-1900s abstract artists such as Alma Thomas made paintings that fit comfortably within a modernist canon that is indifferent to an artist’s biography. Playing tag 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The payoff was that her Beckett biography won the 1981 National Book Award and that, after Beauvoir, she went on to write books about Anaïs Nin, Carl Jung, Saul Steinberg and Al Capone. Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Nicholas Kenyon, in his biography of Rattle, writes that the Philharmonic “was well known as a minefield for conductors, and Rattle was determined to steer clear of it.” The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Commissioned in 1997 on the understanding that it would not be published during Thatcher's lifetime, Penguin will release Charles Moore's biography immediately after her funeral. Thatcher biographies rushed into print 2013-04-09T10:26:06Z

Mr. Spring, who has written biographies of the American artists Fairfield Porter and Paul Cadmus, became intrigued by Steward after coming across some of his witty and ribald letters. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

Drama seeks explanations, pursues causes that yield effects, whereas biography follows a person into strange byways of experience and into loose and dead ends, tangles and knots of personality. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Come summer, one tires of the high-minded works of spring, the long-haul novels by the latest Wunderkinder, the 900-page biographies, the “game-changing” — how I hate that phrase — works of political or sociological analyses. Summer’s hidden gems, selected by Michael Dirda 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

At the moment, my bedside table carries the eclectic mix of Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth, Mary Stewart's The Wicked Day and Andrew Motion's 1987 biography of Keats. Sitting, lying or standing: what's the pole position for reading? 2010-09-01T08:13:00Z

On Sept. 2, more than 100 best-selling authors and illustrators will be talking about everything from kids books to cookbooks, mysteries, poetry, novels, biographies and history. Volunteers needed at the National Book Festival 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

But after the umpteenth biography of a now-forgotten tap dancer, the reader may feel a little tired. It’s got that swing 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Taylor’s vivid and affecting group biography, the “lost girls” will never be lost again. Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

He repeatedly returned to the Last Sitting photographs, which have been reprinted in many books including a Taschen publication that pairs Stern's photos with Norman Mailer's controversial 1973 biography of Monroe. Bert Stern 2013-06-30T15:44:49Z

The interpretation of his work has leaned too heavily on biography. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

“Probably” is a qualifier that attaches to much of Greene’s biography. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

“The modern monarchy is not just a subject for biography,” said Arianne Chernock, an assistant professor of history at Boston University. Amid Diamond Jubilee Fever, Scholars Reflect on Monarchy 2012-05-28T16:54:59Z

There are many lessons to be learned from Ms. Gordon’s new book, “Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon,” a biography of her husband, the heroic bebop saxophonist, who died in 1990. Jazz Wouldn’t Be the Same Without Them. But Few Applauded These Hidden Figures. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

A popular biography by Irving and Amy Wallace was published in the 1970s; more scholarly monographs have been published since. ‘Inseparable’ Finds Pride, Indignity and Irony in the Lives of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The exhibition is divided into five chapters — wordless capsule biographies — in which we see Mr. Hockney’s friends in various moods and settings as they progress through life. David Hockney: A Life in Drawing 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

She would not disclose what Norton had paid for the biography. ArtsBeat: Norton To Publish Philip Roth Biography 2012-09-28T19:19:37Z

This comprehensive biography of the 37th president arrives at a moment that its author couldn’t have predicted. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Gates recommended five books he's enjoyed on his blog on Monday, including a Booker Prize-winning novel by an American author and a popular biography of a Renaissance legend. Bill Gates has some summer reading recommendations for you 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

I haven’t yet read his biography of Tennessee Williams, but I so enjoyed his profiles of showbiz legends in “Show and Tell.” Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

He doesn’t think of his books as biographies in the conventional sense. In ‘Working,’ Robert A. Caro Gives Us a Brief Look at the Process of Writing His Epic Books 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

This “biography” chronicles the semicolon’s life from its origins in late-15th-century Venice to its waning use today. New in Paperback: ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ and ‘Bloodlands’ 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

After one such stretch, about eight years into the collective marriage, he pronounced the institution of marriage a fraud, and some of his wives left him, according Mr. Moore’s biography. Finding Depth in Fela?s Women 2009-12-17T15:17:00Z

Through interviews, archival images and illustrated sequences, the movie, directed by Dani Menkin, offers a treacly biography of the overseas celebrity athlete whose career was ultimately derailed by an addiction to heroin. ‘Aulcie’ Review: Love and Basketball, in Israel 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Yet the last part of the biography emphasizes the personage rather than the person. Blanche Wiesen Cook Concludes Her Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

She is the author of “American Chica,” “Lima Nights,” and, most recently, a biography of Latin American founder Simón Bolívar. Book review: ‘A Little Lumpen Novelita,’ by Roberto Bolaño

I was halfway through the book before I realized what Solnit had done: She’d written a biography that was actually pleasurable to read. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

It vexes when it leans on straightforward biography. ‘Fauci’ Review: The First Pandemic That Shaped the Good Doc 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Monk has no plans to write another biography for a while. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

His final instruction was “that no biography of me shall be written”. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

So it seemed to Richard Zoglin, the author of a heralded new biography, "Hope: Entertainer of the Century," that the time was right to restore Hope to his rightful place in the show biz pantheon. Bob Hope gets little thanks for all the memories 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

In 2002 I was completing a biography of the scientist, polymath and close friend of Sir Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Who was the man behind “Krazy Kat”? This fascinating biography and guide to the work of the cartoonist, who passed for white, tells the full story. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

A biography on the website said Kinkade rejected “the intellectual isolation of the artist” and instead, made “each of his works an intimate statement that resonates in the personal lives of his viewers.” Thomas Kinkade, Landscape Painter, Dies at 54 2012-04-07T13:35:00Z

Nonetheless, “Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire” achieves a magnificence and intensity — dare one say a manic brilliance? — that sets it apart from more temperate and orderly biographies. Review | Kay Redfield Jamison puts Robert Lowell on the couch in an exhilarating biography 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

It is not clear that Dunn's sweeping contention that "in biography, families are the soil out of which character grows, and there is no richer compost than the relationship of sisters" is entirely proven. Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review 2013-04-20T08:00:48Z

This is a masterly and indeed monumental biography, some 800 pages long, a memorable portrait of the age as well as the composer. Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer, trans Stewart Spencer – review 2013-05-03T17:10:01Z

Decades later, I got the story directly from the source during my frequent visits to his apartment at the Chelsea Hotel when I was writing his biography. Copland, Thomson and Others in a Fantasy Music Festival 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

In the pivotal scene of his Olivier biography, he and the actor have a tearful exchange about the effects of alleged abuse in their childhood. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

According to her biography, many fans who wrote her letters believed she was in her 40s when she was only in her 20s. Angela Lansbury was the world’s big sister 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

One day a comprehensive literary biography of Tennessee Williams will be written that won't resemble a psychiatric case study. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Exasperated with such postmodern gobbledygook, Norah considers writing her own biography about her mother. Review | Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

In the meantime we have “Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin,” a biography from the entertainment journalist James Sullivan. Books of The Times: James Sullivan on George Carlin?s Life: ?Seven Dirty Words? 2010-07-08T22:02:00Z

But it's clear from the opening number, in which Miranda conveys with canny concision Hamilton's early biography, that this is not going to be any high school social studies lesson. 'Hamilton's' revolutionary power is in its hip-hop musical numbers 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

But as a work of theater, “Dreaming Zenzile” struggles among the competing forms of recital, dream play, memory play and biography. ‘Dreaming Zenzile’ Review: A Tribute to Mama Africa 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Throughout the course of an afternoon, the 24-year-old may ask you about the biographies of dead U.S. presidents. Le Butcherette's Teri Suarez still angry, even without the pig's head 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

A greeting card image of the drag queen Doris Fish, the subject of a new biography. Long Before RuPaul, Doris Fish Wore the Wig. Fiercely. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

Wulf’s previous books include biographies of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and an account of early attempts to chart the transit of Venus. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

His biography – not his films – is becoming his legacy. Director Kevin Smith on heart attacks, happiness, extreme weight loss – and Weinstein 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

An authoritative and elegantly written biography of one of London's finest buildings. St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley ? review 2011-04-08T23:06:12Z

And though I wish it included more quotations from the fiction, Hutchisson’s biography leads us where it should: to the words that Hemingway himself chose with life-giving care and attention. The quiet tragedy of Ernest Hemingway 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

“He knew everyone and photographed everyone, and part of the pleasure of this biography lies in watching life’s rich pageant pass by,” our critic Dwight Garner writes, calling the book “wise and ebullient.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards include 31 books across six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Bollingen Prize in American Poetry and Nominees for the National Book Critics Circle and Edgar Allan Poe Awards Are Announced 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

There is no credit for choreography in the Classic Stage Company production of “Fire and Air,” which is strange because it’s basically a biography of Sergei Diaghilev. Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Three excellent full-length biographies — by Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie, David C. Smith and Michael Sherborne — chronicle Wells’s colorful life in full. Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

A lucid, thorough, fascinating biography of Robert Ames, an important CIA operative who died in the Beirut embassy bombing, by a Pulitzer-winning historian. Here Are the 15 Best Books of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Rieff put Sontag to work, drafting the book reviews that appeared under his name, and even, Moser argues, ghostwriting his study “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist,” this biography’s juiciest claim. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Serious and thorough, “Luckiest Guy” and “Goliath” are positioned to draft on the success of an earlier basketball biography, ESPN's popular Michael Jordan series, “The Last Dance.” Little Big Men: ‘The Luckiest Guy in the World’ and ‘Goliath’ 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

But as with van Gogh’s work, Bess’s small, intensely personal quasi abstractions seem designed to withstand the onslaught of biography. Critic?s Notebook: Forrest Bess Paintings at Christie?s and Whitney Biennial 2012-03-22T21:35:57Z

“Greatest Love of All,” Whitney Houston’s early hit, received an unusually strong and focused interpretation whose message of unapologetic self-reliance resonated with Ms. Salonga’s show business biography. Music Review: Lea Salonga at the Café Carlyle 2013-05-24T20:50:52Z

At last his biography has been detailed in full, in Artemis Cooper's tender and excellent book. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z

A new biography, “In the Great Green Room,” brings renewed attention to the contrast between Brown’s private life and her status as a celebrated children’s author. The bold, boisterous woman behind the classic children’s tale ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Zack’s biography, a solid work of reportage and writing, is one of two new books that assess Odetta’s life and legacy. Remembering Odetta, Whose Powerful Voice Met a Profound Moment 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

I have always been rather smug about the intellectual justification for unauthorised biography, arguing that it is ethically cleaner than writing an authorised life. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z

He became embedded in Nashville’s music world when he moved there in 1973 after briefly studying English at the University of North Carolina, his biography says. A singer-songwriter apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died on stage 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

For “Amadeus” is also a rhapsodic musical biography, recounted by a guilty bystander. Review | ‘Amadeus’ at the Folger will be music to your ears 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Winners in the novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children's book categories are announced on 5 January 2015. Brain surgery book up for Costa prize 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

This is one of her signature questions about the limits of biography. What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

He said that Commissioner Moses—they all called him Commissioner all the time—had realized that finally someone had come along who was going to do the biography whether he wanted it or not. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The Hart-Kaufman collaborative relationship is now depicted in the current Broadway play “Act One,” based on Hart’s biography of the same name. ArtsBeat: James Earl Jones to Star on Broadway in ‘You Can’t Take It With You’ 2014-04-24T19:50:10Z

What happens in the minutes and hours after that will potentially be the most significant moments of our biography. Sam Parnia – the man who could bring you back from the dead 2013-04-06T21:00:01Z

Richardson will discuss his monumental undertaking with art historian Gijs van Hensbergen, who is helping him write the fourth and final volume of the artist's biography. Picasso biographer talks about his subject's groundbreaking life 2010-12-07T21:11:00Z

All its players are women, and as its program biography puts it, the group is “especially devoted to the presentation of works by women composers.” Music Review: The neoLIT Ensemble?s Women?s Works at Bargemusic 2010-05-30T22:02:00Z

Steven C. Smith, in his biography “A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann,” repeats a quip from the composer that Hitchcock completed only 60 percent of any film. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

“He intended to play only men,” says Scott Eyman, the author of a new biography of Wayne, who “mirrored his own beliefs, his own values, either partially or completely.” ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend,’ Explains a Star’s Power 2014-03-24T21:54:48Z

But, as Perry’s biography illuminates, she was at the center of a world of black intellectuals, including her close friend James Baldwin. What to Read Before or After You See ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

He has “written the only kind of biography of Pessoa truly permissible, an account of a life that plucks at the very borders and burdens of the notion of a self.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The clothes and jewels are accompanied by brief, fawning biographies and somewhat livelier snippets of press coverage. Art Review: How the Other Half Dressed 2010-09-16T21:44:00Z

I'm 100 pages into this 904-page biography of our first president, and let me just say that Chernow, winner of the 1990 National Book Award for "House of Morgan," knows how to tell a story. What to read while you're on jury duty: crime novels, biographies 2010-09-17T23:44:00Z

Then Michael Holroyd agreed to set the context, talking with me about his joint biography of Irving and Terry, A Strange Eventful History. Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z

But Ron Chernow, the historian whose biography of “Hamilton” is the basis for the musical, was not so stoic. Currency Demotion Strikes Unwelcome Chord at 'Hamilton' Rehearsal 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Carl Sandberg, in his biography of Lincoln, said it was a speech that conveyed the message that democracy was worth fighting for. 'Lincoln' director Spielberg speaks in Gettysburg 2012-11-19T10:16:03Z

Over the years, Lee has thought a lot about biography, and even about how much, paradoxically, she would resist the idea of anyone writing her life. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

The painter is also the subject of a new biography, “Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner,” by the English writer and television producer Franny Moyle. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

A new biography looks at the man and his work. Review: ‘Everything Explained That Is Explainable’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

It is not always clear which story “The Runaways” wants to tell, and it hits a few too many standard music biography beats. Movie Review | 'The Runaways': Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as Rock ?n? Roll Idols 2010-03-18T22:06:00Z

In a recent e-mail interview, Ms. Feigel discussed the themes that hold these writers together, the pleasures Greene found in war, other group biographies she admires and more. ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z

While Bailey has found a new publisher, his biography is now inextricably linked to controversy. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

One version of events in the Connon biography has things coming to a head when certain of Nichols’s guests “began chatting up the local lads.” | Beverley Nichols 2011-01-12T14:00:17Z

Born May 28, 1962, in Winona, Miss., Mr. Tyler was the youngest of five children, raised by a retired Air Force captain and a homemaker, according to a biography on IMDb. James Michael Tyler, Who Played Gunther on ‘Friends,’ Dies at 59 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

“It was closer to therapy than it was to biography,” Halberstam said. Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

In the biography section, journalist Patrick Cockburn and his son Henry co-authored an account of the latter's struggles with paranoid schizophrenia in "Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia - A Father and Son's Story." Booker winner, poet laureate vie for UK Costa prize 2011-11-15T19:37:05Z

Walker’s edifying biography deconstructs the legendary composer’s life and works with zeal. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Since the release of the biography and the ensuing scandal, however, the estate has been quiet. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

The Reviewend: “Still, his life, as this biography so adroitly establishes, is central to understanding the primary lesson of the 1960s for black America.” This is the best thing about the New York Times Book Review 2014-03-24T17:38:00Z

It’s 1991, and Lee, the author of several popular biographies of bygone celebrities, finds herself in career limbo — or possibly professional free fall. Review: Melissa McCarthy Is Criminally Good in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

As a kid growing up on that council estate, I read Gielgud's biography, Olivier's biography, Richardson's biography. Christopher Eccleston: from superheroes to Sophocles 2012-06-27T16:58:42Z

It’s a song that was the breakthrough indicator of how much story their deeply researched musical, based largely on Ron Chernow’s best-selling biography, could pack into a conventional two-act structure. One key scene helped cement ‘Hamilton’ as a Broadway legend. The team that crafted it explains how. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

When English professor Dr Murray Watson decides to boost the reputation of a little-known Scottish poet by writing his biography, he knows the job won't be easy. John O'Connell's choice of thrillers | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

"In a way, this is a continuation of the 8 Mile story, but rather than a literal biography, we are doing a metaphorical narrative of the second chapter of his life." Boxing role being written for Eminem 2010-12-15T18:04:03Z

Powerfully written and narratively creative, “A Woman Like Her” is less a conventional biography than it is an examination of modern-day Pakistan. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Right after that happened, Other Press contacted me and said, “Do you want to write a biography?” Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Bennett also attacks the idea of the artist as the kind of ravaged, tormented genius so often enshrined in biography. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z

In this richly detailed and impeccably designed biography, Bolden follows Douglass as he finds his way as a speaker, writer, newspaper publisher and American hero. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Paul Simon’s life and music will be the subject of a new book from former Los Angeles Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn, author of the acclaimed 2013 biography “Johnny Cash: A Life.” Paul Simon biography due from author-critic Robert Hilburn 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Her own online biography concludes: "And, now, I'm just trying to change the world one sequin at a time," albeit with "a wink in her eye." Lady Gaga swaps music for media, edits Metro paper 2011-05-16T11:35:32Z

Hawking was very much against my making a movie that contained his biography. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

In that biography, which also won a National Book Award, he began with his subject in his later years, opening evocatively: Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z

The biographies were commissioned during the Kennedy administration and were meant to complement the paintings of presidents that hung in the White House. Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z

Also Joseph Frank's monumental biography of Dostoevsky – though I will have to pay excess baggage, as the condensed version comes in at 1,000 pages. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

But she is a student of the form, studying old film clips and dance biographies, scouring them as her Talmudic key to “achieve anything in this world.” Zadie Smith's 'Swing Time' is a tour-de-force 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

“What they do all day, what are their biographies, nationalities, coming together with all these different languages and mentalities, and suddenly the institution has a face.” Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

In the end “The Stranger’s Child” is a study in the vagaries of literary reputation, the untruths of biography and even of the shifting nature of the British class system. Alan Hollinghurst?s ?Stranger?s Child? Is a Departure 2011-10-31T21:57:27Z

This is the biography of a medieval manuscript, the Zeytun Gospels, illuminated by an Armenian artist. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

So when The Ghastly One, Jimmy McDonough's biography of Milligan, came out, talking about the director's place in that 42nd Street exploitation world, I loved it. My obsession with Andy Milligan's cult horror movies 2012-06-14T19:00:05Z

You wrote a children's biography of Jane Austen. Gill Hornby: 'We all go slighty bonkers when our children are little' 2013-05-19T06:00:25Z

On various occasions, Freud expressed his skepticism and dislike of, and distrust and general disbelief in, the truth of biography. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Levinson draws on a number of sources, including Clinton’s writing, as well as previous biographies and interviews. Hillary’s new star turn: heroine of children’s books 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Putting out the comic biographies allowed Mr. Davis to tap skills from his earlier career in marketing, publicity and advertising. Comic Book Heroes Drawn From Real Life 2010-07-28T23:00:00Z

“Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and the most likable,” he wrote in a 2009 biography. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

I became obsessed with biographies of Sylvia Plath, and then Virginia Woolf, and then Evelyn Waugh. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z

Yet this biography suffers from its refusal to grapple with the stubborn fact that Holmes was, and remains, a deeply contradictory figure. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Since devouring Gray’s richly researched biography, I’ve spent three months teaching, translating and even writing fiction about this lost hero. David Kipen recommends an overlooked book about a lost LA hero 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Emphasising his right to artistic licence, he says he drew inspiration from Obama's own book and scoped David Maraniss's biography, Barack Obama: The Making of the Man, published earlier this year, for further detail. Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie 2012-10-03T15:08:57Z

That is a direct connection to your biography. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Walter Moore's deeply researched biography reveals how entwined Schrödinger's scientific efforts were with his at-times shocking personal life. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z

Marston clearly believed in women’s rights—when Wonder Woman got her own stand-alone magazine it included a pull-out section with biographies of exceptional women such as Susan B. Anthony and Florence Nightingale. A bird, but not a plane 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Advertisement “Without me Stravinsky would not have taken the path he did,” Mr. Craft wrote in his 1993 biography, “Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.” Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

He started the play after writing the biography “Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.” Theater review: 'Satchmo at the Waldorf' at the Wallis Annenberg Center 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

For Laura Thompson, the author of the Nancy Mitford biography “Life in a Cold Climate,” Linda is not a tragic figure, despite her many disappointments, and especially considering the context of her time. In ‘The Pursuit of Love,’ Looking for Liberation, Too 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

"If we need to think about what went on in the Smiths then we can torture ourselves by reading those books," he says, referring to the expanding pile of Smiths biographies. Johnny Marr on the Smiths, Morrissey and putting politics back in pop 2013-01-11T07:00:00Z

According to Gordon Bowker, speaking about his new biography of the writer, he would have been glued to it: he enjoyed nothing better than a morning's natter on the phone. This week's arts diary 2011-08-23T21:01:01Z

Music biographies have in recent years been derailed by mishaps — the latest being Sacha Baron Cohen’s July exit from a film about Queen because of differences with the band. Hendrix Biopic at Toronto Festival Bucks a Trend 2013-09-09T12:58:18Z

It was then that he got the kind of break you read about in paperback rock biographies. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z

Impeccable scholarship and painstaking fair-mindedness characterize Roper’s deeply illuminating biography of this improbably influential figure, one of the best of a slew of new publications on the anniversary of the Reformation. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Drawing on their biographies, he reflects back on his own, discovering new insight into his childhood from these men's theories. Child of shrinks recalls his childhood in memoir 2010-08-18T18:36:00Z

Exhaustively researched and written with unflagging energy, Hasan and Macintyre's biography of this most enigmatic of recent British political leaders has at times the flavour of a political thriller. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z

Dramas, comedies, adventure stories, musicals, biographies – all would use animals, but the genre that used the most was the western. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z

Their legacy included Penrose's 1958 biography of Picasso, a still authoritative and valuable study, and Cooper's writings on the cubist period and his book on Picasso's work in the theatre. Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z

Federman’s biography is the first of a cult food writer who became famous with the 1986 publication of her influential book “Honey From a Weed.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Moro wrote his book on Gandhi without her consent, calling it the "dramatized" biography of a public figure considered one of the world's most powerful women. Attempts to block book on India's Sonia Gandhi only fueled interest: author 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

His last book was a sweeping biography of Marc Blitzstein; other subjects have included George Gershwin and Aaron Copland. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Hilburn could hardly discourage such a comparison, given that his thorough, balanced and insistently chronological biography, “Paul Simon: The Life,” reminds us how titanic this musician is. Review | Paul Simon: The musical genius who gave voice to the sound of silence 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Many authors whose books are nominated for literary achievement will read from their works on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium; categories include fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry. Spare Times for March 2-8 2012-03-01T22:33:12Z

What she does in this fine biography is situate Vreeland firmly in her time and place while taking nothing away from her idiosyncratic – often downright bonkers – talent. Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart – review 2013-03-01T12:00:01Z

Yet in weaving together Kahlo’s biography with his quest to understand his father, Petitjean creates an unconventional and deeply personal biography. Review | When he found out his father had an affair with Frida Kahlo, an author’s investigation began 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

The tension between nature and art, real life and depicted life, is a theme of Williams’s work and of his biography. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end. Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Entered the Stormy Landscape of Polyamory’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

As Smith herself is private and seldom forthcoming, we see her through the comments of her peers, and these comments, spaced throughout the biography, point the reader toward a consensus of sorts. ‘Maggie Smith’ review: The person behind the ‘Downton Abbey’ star 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Producing a 272-page scholarly catalog with artist biographies “is like exploring an unexplored world,” said Benjamin Macklowe, an owner of the gallery. Antiques: Shenanigans of Folk Art Collecting; Art Nouveau Nudes 2011-11-03T21:08:07Z

Among the many pleasures of this biography are its frequent quotations from Lear’s journals and fanciful letters. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

That chance encounter led to a 22-year romance that would become the subject of biographies and movies, accounts told from an outsider’s perspective. Review | Revisiting the love story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in their own words 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

In “Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination,” a new biography by Brian Jay Jones, this anecdote is mostly played for a laugh. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

"Revenues from both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' made it financially feasible for Comedy Central to take risks on new shows," said Lisa Rogak, whose Stewart biography, "Angry Optimist," was published last year. Stewart's exit is no joke at Comedy Central 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

The extended recovery time did force Asher to take a rare break, during which he finally began reading David Jacks’s biography of him in full. How Peter Asher, a Jack-of-all-Trades in Music, Mastered Them All 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kaplan’s career path was augured, fittingly, by his own biography. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z

It operates at a place between fiction and biography, life and death itself. Teatro Corsario: La Maldici?n de Poe ? review 2011-01-16T22:32:01Z

The real problem was that the book was a family biography of sorts, in which I represented my parents as slightly loopy. A life in writing: Tim Parks 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z

“It is the fate of the sculptor,” he added, in reviewing a biography of Mr. Hebald, “to be anonymous to the great public.” Milton Hebald, Whose Sculptures Are in Plain View, Dies at 97 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Scholars are concerned about something different — that Castle’s biography often overshadows his art. James Castle, subject of Smithsonian show, put ‘taught’ in self-taught

This familiar capsule biography is supported by plenty of facts: “Die Soldaten,” long reputed to be “un-performable,” does require a fantastically large orchestra playing dense, 12-tone music. A Musical Modernist’s New, Smiling Guise 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

The art historian Theresa Leininger-Miller, who is completing a biography of Miss Savage, wrote an essay about her for a recent book, “Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance.” Augusta Savage’s Rural Escape and Clementine Hunter’s Murals 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Colin Matthews, a former assistant to Britten and on the board of the Britten Pears Foundation, only recently learned the full story, in advance of the publication of the biography. Was Benjamin Britten's death caused by syphilis? 2013-01-20T16:21:38Z

After receiving a Ph.D. from Yale in comparative literature and cultural studies, she began her career as a popular author two decades ago with a biography of Marlene Dietrich. Wednesday Martin Dares to Call Her New Book ‘Untrue’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

He was the author of almost 90 books, the most famous of which was the compendious Churchill biography begun in the 1960s by Churchill’s son, Randolph. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The fourth volume is around 300 pages, by far the shortest of his Picasso biographies, and his failing eyesight made writing and reviewing documents an increasingly slow process. John Richardson’s final Picasso book arrives in November 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

And stay late next Thursday, when the writer Cynthia Carr will read from her new biography of David Wojnarowicz, yet another artist on Mr. Hug’s admirable and endless A list. Art In Review: ‘B-OUT’ 2012-07-12T21:28:31Z

Richardson was perhaps best known for “A Life of Picasso,” the monumental biography, three volumes of which have been published. Works by Sir John Richardson’s Many Friends in Sotheby’s Sale 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Sometimes these identifications grow into actual brief biographies. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

He was at work on a biography of Nella Larsen, whose classic Harlem Renaissance novel “Passing” was rediscovered in the 1970s. A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders 2014-02-16T22:07:35Z

“Annals of the Former World,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning book on geology, strived to do no less than tell “the biography of the earth.” The Gloom, Doom and Occasional Joy of the Writing Life 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Though it is not an authorized biography, “Hawking Hawking” is deeply researched and richly sourced. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

Yet the book may be parsed for biography. Where has Jonathan Safran Foer been all these years? 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z