The woman who started the Civil War
Q&A: Historian David Reynolds discusses Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel and the controversy that won't die
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011 12:01 AM UTC 35Politics History, Biography, War Room
Biography
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“The Man in the Rockefeller Suit”: The great impostor
How the son of a German house-painter tricked the rich and gullible into believing he was an American blue blood
Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:01 AM UTC 22Entertainment What to Read, Biography, Crime
“Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast”: The life of a maverick lawyer
A glowing new biography whitewashes the less savory aspects of the masterful but flawed attorney's career
Friday, May 20, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 11Entertainment Biography, Nonfiction, Books
From editor to writer
Legendary editor Robert Gottlieb on working with literary stars -- and the miseries of his own writing process
Wednesday, Apr 27, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 10Entertainment Biography, Writers and Writing
“Malcolm X”: A controversial figure reassessed
A brilliant new book recasts the Civil Rights activist not as a redemptive symbol but as a political tactician
Saturday, Apr 23, 2011 3:01 PM UTC 15Entertainment Biography, Nonfiction, Books
“A Covert Affair”: Julia Child, spy girl
A new book tells the cloak-and-dagger story of the famous chef's early years in espionage
Sunday, Apr 3, 2011 11:01 PM UTC 20Entertainment What to Read, Biography
“Endgame”: The genius and madness of Bobby Fischer
How did one of the greatest chess players of all time end up a paranoid, hate-filled old man?
Sunday, Jan 30, 2011 9:01 PM UTC 37Entertainment What to Read, Biography
“American Rose”: The thinking man’s stripper
The true story of the Queen of Burlesque is even weirder and wilder than the legend
Monday, Dec 20, 2010 12:01 AM UTC 36Entertainment Biography, Our Picks, Books
Paul McCartney: A biographer’s nightmare
A new book proves how difficult it is to turn the Beatle's life into the stuff of compelling storytelling
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010 1:20 AM UTC 75Entertainment Biography, Nonfiction, Books
“Unbroken”: “Seabiscuit” author’s latest triumph
Laura Hillenbrand deserves a gold medal in storytelling for "Unbroken," an extraordinary tale of perseverance
Monday, Nov 15, 2010 12:01 AM UTC 18Entertainment What to Read, Biography
Andrew Morton’s “Angelina”: The worst book of the decade
Andrew Morton's new biography of the movie star is ill-informed, moralistic and just plain mean
Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010 8:30 PM UTC 30Entertainment Biography, Celebrity, Nonfiction
George Carlin: Rethinking a free speech icon
As a new court ruling overturns the rules on TV cussing, a look back at the comic who helped start the debate
Friday, Jul 16, 2010 3:55 PM UTC 24Entertainment Biography, Books
The secret world of Emily Dickinson
A new book uncovers a far fiercer woman than we've come to expect -- with a tumultuous home life
Friday, Jul 2, 2010 5:02 PM UTC 13Entertainment Biography, Nonfiction, Books
Kicking Bob Marley from his pedestal
A new biography explores the extraordinary, contradictory life of the reggae legend
Wednesday, Jun 16, 2010 1:01 AM UTC 25Entertainment Biography, Nonfiction, Books
Somerset Maugham’s brilliant biography
The British writer never wanted his story told, but Selina Hastings' "Secret Lives" has done so, beautifully
Thursday, Jun 10, 2010 12:20 AM UTC 13Entertainment Biography, Nonfiction, Our Picks
“Young Romantics”: Bohemians behaving badly
From idealism to incest in the tangled, magnificent lives of Shelley, Byron and Keats
Sunday, May 30, 2010 11:01 PM UTC 21Entertainment What to Read, Biography, History
“Muriel Spark: The Biography”: A fearless novelist, betrayed
A new biography of the writer reveals a life of personal struggle -- and a lover with an unscrupulous agenda
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010 6:21 PM UTCEntertainment Biography, Nonfiction
“Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney”
Long before reality TV, Nathanael West exposed the dark, vulgar heart of celebrity-crazed America
Sunday, Mar 21, 2010 11:01 PM UTC 17Entertainment What to Read, Biography
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
The true story of a woman whose enormous gift to science was shamefully repaid
Monday, Feb 8, 2010 2:01 AM UTC 41Entertainment What to Read, Biography, Medicine
“The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives”
Darwin, Warhol and Proust -- what history's greatest worrywarts got out of being "sick"
Monday, Feb 1, 2010 2:01 AM UTC 24Entertainment What to Read, Biography
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