Biography

Todd Goddard’s new biography reveals a man who loved alcohol and mystery

Christopher Shaw Myers outlines his uncle’s story with lesser-known information and anecdotes

The writer’s posthumous reputation and influence continue to manifest themselves in writing, music and theater

Nicholas Boggs has written the first major biography of the writer in more than 30 years

Over more than a thousand pages, Ron Chernow identifies the emotional root system that fed the writer’s art

You end John & Paul in understanding of their essential humanity

This book, apparently 20 years in the making, is the product of immense learning and shows a rare familiarity with its subject and his times

Two biographies connect the life and work of Christopher Isherwood

Susan Morrison’s book sets itself two tasks: where did its hero come from? And why is he so good at what he does?

Gambling Man documents a career punctuated with attention-grabbing successes and abrupt reversals

Thirty years ago, two intriguing books by the writer appeared just a few months apart

In a new biography of the former First Lady, Heath Hardage Lee attempts to uncover the real woman

Paul Alexander is on a mission to correct what he sees as misrepresentations of the singer’s life and personality

As a portrait of the thrilling, rackety milieu of the seventeenth-century literary world, Francesca Peacock’s Pure Wit  is truly delightful

In Lou Reed: The King of New York , Will Hermes seems unusually well attuned to his subject, while resisting any temptation to soft-pedal

Roger Lewis answers what it is about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor that still hooks us in