A new book about the children’s author is conscientious, respectful—and, like any good biography, dedicated to recovering vivid, occasionally unsettling particulars.

Nathan Morley spoke with Crux Now about his forthcoming biography of cinema legend Kenneth More, who portrayed G.K. Chesterton’s beloved Father Brown.

ATLANTA — A new biography of John Lewis promises a “comprehensive, authoritative” look back at the life of the Civil Rights leader and congressman. Lewis represented Georgia’s 5th District in the ...

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It was like doing another college degree, but you’re majoring in Judy Blume,” Mark Oppenheimer (here in his Connecticut home) says of his extensive research.Credit...Jillian Freyer for The New York ...

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

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

A new entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography highlights the life of early Moose Jaw pioneer Edward Nicholas Hopkins.

Author Mick Wall makes that clear from the first words in his book subtitled as the band’s “Reckless Ride Down the Rock & Roll Highway.” But that didn’t deter longtime British music journalist Wall – ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Nomadland producer Peter Spears has optioned Mike Nichols: A Life, the 2021 biography of the director by Mark Harris, for development as a dramatic feature film. The planned ...

When ghostwriter-turned-author Charlie Goodyear began looking about for a compelling subject in his own right, he turned to historical periods that he thought would illuminate contemporary life, ...