Who reads literary biographies these days? The question is pertinent because the audience and the advances for literary biography have been shrinking since the 1980s. Of course certain subjects, like ...

In the skillful writing of biographer Nigel Hamilton, history is a living thing, something you can see and hear, reach out and touch. History has an immediacy for him that has come to life in more ...

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Here's one sure way to incite Barbra Streisand's wrath: Write a book about her. Christopher Anderson has learned that with his recently published biography, "Barbra: The Way She Is." Streisand has ...

LOWELL — Brad Parker’s latest book took him 33 years to write — well, not actually. But the Jack Kerouac scholar and Lowell native is releasing his second biography on the famous Beatnik later this ...

“Flannery” by Brad Gooch (Little, Brown and Company, 416 pages, $30) Flannery O’Connor’s faith-steeped fiction of a timeless Protestant South peopled with seekers and misfits long ago earned her a ...