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 ...

The hard work of literary biography proceeds apace even as editors at the major trade book houses declare it dead and are wary of offending literary estates and the very subjects of the biographies ...

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 ...

Adam Sisman seems dazed. The night before I speak with him, he attended a launch party for his latest book, the 672-page biography John le Carré, about the prolific British spy novelist, which took ...

Of all living American writers – Didion will be 81 in December – Joan Didion has been in the uppermost tier of those crying out for a truly great literary biography. Her own life has been crucial to ...

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen will write a biography of the late filmmaker Nora Ephron. Cohen was a longtime friend of the filmmaker, who wrote the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally and ...