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 ...

When Steve Jobs was 6 years old, his young next door neighbor found out he was adopted. "That means your parents abandoned you and didn't want you," she told him. Jobs ran into his home, where his ...

THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

The first and last image Jonathan Eig says he saw each day in his boyhood bedroom was a poster of Muhammad Ali on the ceiling. In Eig's view then, Ali was a "superhero." The 53-year-old journalist ...

Having come out of the closet, or the casino, not long ago, as an unqualified Frank Sinatra idolater, I approached the second volume of James Kaplan’s biography of the singer (“Sinatra: The Chairman”) ...

The group biography has been around for centuries: There was Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, written some 1,900 years ago and a staple of classical education ever since; the Bishop ...

Catherine Lacey’s new novel follows a polarizing artist through a fractured country. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission ...

A conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Black feminist writer, on her biography Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Audre Lorde, 1983.