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The Mythmakers is best described as a Lewis-Tolkien biography for people who don't want to read a Lewis-Tolkien biography.
Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist ...
In “Storyteller,” a biography of the beloved author, Leo Damrosch explores Stevenson’s marriage, his literary style and his ...
I Am a Georgia Girl” by Ann Hite explores Lucille Frank’s life, activism and legacy after her husband Leo Frank was lynched in Marietta in 1915.
Some sportswriters accused her of “deifying” Indiana’s irascible basketball coach. A professor of English, she also wrote ...
FRANK MEYER DESERVED A BIOGRAPHY, but I thought it would be impossible to write one about him. For historians of American ...
Katharine, the Duchess of Kent, has died at the age of 92, the British Royal Family announced Friday. The Duchess of Kent was ...
This list of 62 books just scratches the surface of publishing’s biggest season, from Kamala Harris’s memoir to Patricia ...
That makes Clarie Hoffman’s steady, insightful biography Sister, Sinner, an examination of the fantastic and tragic life of ...
Marge Redmond biography and filmography.
A new biography of Æthelstan marks 1,100 years since his coronation in 925AD, reasserts his right to be called the first king of England, explains why he isn't better known and highlights his many ...
He’s been mocked, disgraced, exposed and pilloried – and now further humiliated by a new biography. But instead of causing ...