The greatest biographies ever written When someone is in the public eye, we often feel like we know them personally, despite ...

Did you know there’s a very specific reason we have a fall book season? It’s not the only reason, but it’s the reason that set this cultural cycle in motion. Long story short: As New York and ...

Did you know there's a very specific reason we have a fall book season?It's not the only reason, but it's the reason that set ...

Some of the best moments come when Ms. Dalton explores Roosevelt’s relationship with his children. He could never stand to banish them from his presence, even when they revealed to the press ...

Biographies are some of the most interesting books to read because they peek into the lives of other people. Amazon released the best biographies and memoirs of 2014. From Lena Dunham's tell-all ...

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Kooky and irrepressible, Amy grew up with her gran and was a star pupil who went to the local grammar school. With a burning lust for life, hers was cut way too short when she was diagnosed with ...

A book takes readers on a journey through the history of neurosurgery, and how it's done, by the very best tour guide imaginable.

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David Greenberg writes about the life of the late Civil Rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis in “John Lewis: A Life ...

A masterly biography of the author of “Goodbye to Berlin” and “A Single Man,” this book captures the intricacies of a fascinating, often contradictory character. Isherwood was an upper ...

By Kiersten White Why Jackson Pollock Owed Everything to Claude Monet A new biography of the French Impressionist argues that Monet himself owed everything to the three most important women in his ...