Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

LITERARY biography — the lives of writers — is a form of literature clearly deserving a very judicious survey; yet even within the confines of the English language, there has up to now, so far as I am ...

With July Fourth just passed and summer vacations on the agenda this year, it is a natural time to pick up a biography of a presidentor political leader. But not all biographies are created equal, and ...

Now that the readers and the writers of biography have become almost equally numerous, this book, by an acknowledged master in the modern school of his art, ought to find a large public. The readers ...

Biohistory, moreover, does not see human history as a Darwinian struggle. Instead, it contends that history consists, to a considerable extent, of the interplay between humans’ biological inheritance ...

This zesty romp through millennia of biographical portraits comes from \t\t the pen of a master biographer (JFK: Reckless \t\t Youth). Hamilton's a friendly spectator to his own art, undaunted by \t\t ...