The 30th president of the United States may have been known for holding his tongue, earning the nickname “Silent Cal,” but the controversy surrounding Calivn Coolidge’s administration has been ...

What has been said of Shakespeare could be said of Leonardo: All of the verifiable facts of his life can be set down on a page. Of course, that has not deterred biographers from making book on these ...

Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist. In 1927—just five years after the publication of Ulysses and five years ...

THE contemporary records of any actions and lives, partly through envy and ill-will, partly through favor and flattery, pervert and distort truth. - PLUTARCH THE Jazz Age — that fascinating, feverish, ...

Our Special Projects Editor Chris Mascari is on something of a Nikola Tesla kick right now, but isn’t sure what biography is the best one to sate his curiosity about the physicist/engineer/inventor.

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THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.