• Biography

    News and Culture

    The Jazz Age Heiress Who Witnessed WWII Up Close

    By Peter Finn  September 24, 2019
    The Lives of Women

    On Alma Mahler, Muse and Mistress of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

    By Cate Haste  September 16, 2019
    The Spanish Civil War

    The Communist Plot to Assassinate George Orwell

    By Duncan White  September 10, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Biography

    By Literary Hub  August 22, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

    By Jay Parini  August 21, 2019
    Memoir

    The Road to Oliver Sacks’

    By Lawrence Weschler  August 13, 2019
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