The CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center says the late author, the subject of a new biography, enlightened him about what it ...
What has been said of Shakespeare could be said of Leonardo: All of the verifiable facts of his life can be set down on a page. Of course, that has not deterred biographers from making book on these ...
The 30th president of the United States may have been known for holding his tongue, earning the nickname “Silent Cal,” but the controversy surrounding Calivn Coolidge’s administration has been ...
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Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist. In 1927—just five years after the publication of Ulysses and five years ...
New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez is apparently on a one man mission to prop up the ailing newspaper industry. The tabloid back pages love his home runs. The business pages drool over the 10-year ...
The subtitle of Peter Parker's comprehensive work on Christopher Isherwood immediately gives one pause. A life revealed? Well, yes, but what biography, even the briefest, does not, to at least some ...
THE contemporary records of any actions and lives, partly through envy and ill-will, partly through favor and flattery, pervert and distort truth. - PLUTARCH THE Jazz Age — that fascinating, feverish, ...
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.
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