Lili Anolik, Hilton Als, David Ulin, Evelyn McDonnell, Cory Leadbeater and Steffie Nelson share thoughts about author Joan ...

Who reads literary biographies these days? The question is pertinent because the audience and the advances for literary biography have been shrinking since the 1980s. Of course certain subjects, like ...

SEVERAL years ago the novelist David Lodge wrote the obituary of Park Honan, an author noted for his biographies, for the Guardian. Honan had written books on Jane Austen, Robert Browning, Matthew ...

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Reading Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya, Akshay Mukul’s colossal biography of Agyeya, a stalwart of Hindi Literature, was like entering the fascinating world of my literary ...

Before Ted Geltner unearthed Jim Murray's legacy, it was gathering dust in a four-drawer file cabinet in Palm Springs. Ticket stubs to Ali fights. Notes from the 1943 Oscars, when Bogart won for ...

The young press agent asked the famously cynical Oscar-winning actor what he thought was the key to success in Hollywood. “Survival,” replied Humphrey Bogart. “Stick around long enough and everybody ...

On April 27, publisher W.W. Norton announced it was “permanently” removing Blake Bailey’s biography of American novelist Philip Roth (1933–2018) from print. Several individuals have accused Bailey of ...

Many residents are experiencing memory loss, and the intent is to capture their memories in a way that they’re honored. STANWOOD — Josephine Caring Community is seeking volunteers to interview ...

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen will write a biography of the late filmmaker Nora Ephron. Cohen was a longtime friend of the filmmaker, who wrote the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally and ...