biography

Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

The Author of “Song So Wild and Blue” in Conversation with Emma Copley Eisenberg

 
By Emma Copley Eisenberg  February 24, 2025
Divorce

Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy

By Kim Young  November 21, 2024
Biography

50 Facts About The Power Broker to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary

By James Folta  September 16, 2024
Sylvia Plath

From Shopping to Sex: Indexing the Life of Sylvia Plath

By Carl Rollyson  June 28, 2024
Biography

History Skews Male: Looking at Anna May Wong’s Life Through the Eyes of a Woman

By Katie Gee Salisbury  March 13, 2024
Biography

Conversations with the Long-Dead: My Literary Friendship with Margaret Cavendish

By Francesca Peacock  January 3, 2024
Writing Advice

Acting Out a Life: How to Write Novels About Real People

By Gill Paul  September 7, 2023
Artists

Leonora Carrington’s Days as a Debutante and Art Student

By Joanna Moorhead  August 22, 2023
The Hub

Biographer discovers that Martin Luther King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X was made up.

By Jonny Diamond  May 10, 2023
The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

By The Literary Life  April 14, 2023
Biography

Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

By Craig Brown  January 8, 2023
European History

From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

By Estelle Paranque  December 22, 2022
Rock'n'roll

On Chuck Berry’s Early Literary Influences

By RJ Smith  November 16, 2022
What to Watch

What Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

By Sara B. Franklin  April 27, 2022
Art and Life

Marcel Duchamp’s First Three Great Rejections

By Ruth Brandon  March 2, 2022
Literary History

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 1, 2022
So Many Damn Books

Dana Stevens on Writing a “Zigzagging Biography” of Buster Keaton

By So Many Damn Books  March 1, 2022
The Hub

Megan Marshall has won this year’s BIO Award.

By Jessie Gaynor  February 18, 2022
Chronic Illness

On the Hidden Pain of V.C. Andrews, the Woman Behind The Flowers in the Attic

By Andrew Neiderman  February 3, 2022
Music history

Why Whitney Houston’s Rendition of the National Anthem Still Matters

By Gerrick Kennedy  February 2, 2022
Poets

Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

By Joe Moshenska  December 8, 2021
Great Authors

How Elizabeth Hardwick Spent Her “Starving Artist” Years in the Big City

By Cathy Curtis  November 16, 2021
Biography

On the Humble Childhood Beginnings of H.G. Wells

By Claire Tomalin  November 8, 2021
Biography

Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

By Gabrielle Selz  October 28, 2021
Biography

How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

By Jacques Berlinerblau  September 24, 2021
Family History

Triumph and Tragedy: On Being a Mets Fan… and Being a Mankiewicz

By Nick Davis  September 13, 2021
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