James McWilliams's biography details the life and work of poet Frank Stanford. Stanford, born in Mississippi and raised in Tennessee and Arkansas, died by suicide at age 29. His epic poem "The ...

Halfway through the novel Biography of X, the X in question — a brilliant performance artist, daring political dissident, and, according to her biographer, kind of a cruel jerk — is described by David ...

Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...