Biography

History Skews Male: Looking at Anna May Wong’s Life Through the Eyes of a Woman

Katie Gee Salisbury on Writing a Biography of the Iconic Chinese American Movie Star

 
By Katie Gee Salisbury  January 3, 2024
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Logan Steiner on Learning Life Lessons From Anne of Green Gables

By Logan Steiner  June 2, 2023
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“I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

By Robert D. Richardson  January 25, 2023
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Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

By Craig Brown  January 8, 2023
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On the Humble Childhood Beginnings of H.G. Wells

By Claire Tomalin  November 8, 2021
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Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

By Gabrielle Selz  October 28, 2021
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How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

By Jacques Berlinerblau  September 24, 2021
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Extractor of Secrets, Discloser of Secrets: On the Complex Role of the Biographer

By Debra Dean  July 1, 2021
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The Biography I’ll Never Truly Finish Writing

By Fortunato Salazar  November 30, 2020
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A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

By Emily Van Duyne  October 29, 2020
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On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People’s Lives

By Jonas Gardsby  October 7, 2020
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Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

By Sherrill Grace  September 10, 2020
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Want to throw a wrench in your reading habit? Read the fantastical life of a saint.

By Aaron Robertson  August 20, 2020
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Even in His Retirement, Philip Roth Wrote Thousands of Pages

By Benjamin Taylor  May 19, 2020
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Uncovering the Hidden Love Lives of Sylvia Plath and William Faulkner

By Carl Rollyson  March 23, 2020
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The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

By Judith Arcana  December 11, 2019
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On the Ambitious Beginnings of China’s Influential Soong Sisters

By Jung Chang  December 5, 2019
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The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

By Iris Origo  October 15, 2019
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Olive Schreiner: Charlotte Brontë of South Africa, 19th-Century Celebrity

By Lyndall Gordon  March 29, 2019
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On H.G. Adler’s Lectures from a Concentration Camp

By Peter Filkins  March 13, 2019
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The Unlikely Friendship Between a Philosopher and an Empress

By Robert Zaretsky  February 22, 2019
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“Luminous Traitor”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 20, 2018
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Edward Gorey, Frank O’Hara and Harvard’s Gay Underground

By Mark Dery  December 17, 2018
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When The Beatles Met Their Idol, Elvis Presley

By Ray Connolly  December 3, 2018
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On the Limits of Biofiction: Bethany Layne Talks to David Lodge

By Bethany Layne and David Lodge  November 20, 2018
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