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10 fall biographies not to miss

Andi Zeisler
Gwyneth Paltrow (Lexie Moreland/WWD via Getty Images)

Gwyneth was always going to be a villain

Andi Zeisler
1956: Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

The Colonel wasn't Elvis' villain

Kenneth Womack
Cher (Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

The outfit that defined a career

Annie Zaleski
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Portrait of Japanese multimedia artist and musician Yoko Ono in her apartment at the Dakota building on Central Park West, New York, New York, December 8, 1981. (Derek Hudson/Getty Images)

Yoko Ono gets the biography she deserves

Kenneth Womack
Yoko Ono and John Lennon, December 1968 (Susan Wood/Getty Images)

"We All Shine On": A new look at Lennon

Kenneth Womack
George Harrison of English rock and pop group The Beatles, wearing sunglasses and a denim jacket, takes part in filming of the television musical film 'Magical Mystery Tour' at Newquay in Cornwall on 13th September 1967. (David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images)

"The quiet Beatle" amped in new book

Kenneth Womack
Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the first hole during the final round of the 2015 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 12, 2015 in Augusta, Georgia. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

James Patterson won't trash Tiger Woods

Gabriella Ferrigine
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Anthony Bourdain (Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images)

Bourdain & the "unauthorized" biography

Nigel Hamilton - The Conversation
Anna Wintour attends the the 2022 Met Gala celebrating "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Noam Galai/GC Images/Getty Images)

Power & whom Anna Wintour deems "worthy"

Alison Stine
American writer and biographer Blake Bailey (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Philip Roth biographer accused of rape

Ashlie D. Stevens
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

David Maraniss on a world "upside down"

Chauncey DeVega
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How to build clocks that detect gravity

Anna Sherman

Suicide prevention by example

Alli Joseph
The Replacements, from cover photo of "Trouble Boys" (Da Capo Press)

Truth about the Replacements

Caryn Rose
(AP)

H.W. Bush's fury revealed

Sophia Tesfaye
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Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Kyle is a stand-in for Clint

Allen Barra
Phil Hartman, pictured in 1998. (AP/Lennox Mclendon)

Phil Hartman's toxic marriage

Prachi Gupta
Roberto Bolaño (New DIrections/Mathieu Bourgois)

The Bolaño biography is a lie

Lisa Locascio
Virginia Woolf, Edna St. Vincent Millay (AP)

Great literary husbands

Laura Miller
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Great writers, getting drunk

Laura Miller

The father of self-help

Laura Miller

The making of a monster

Laura Miller
Andrew Leonard (Wikimedia/Mia Nakano)

My Wikipedia hall of mirrors

Andrew Leonard
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