• Biography

    Biography

    How a Christmas Present Gave Harper Lee the Time to Write To Kill a Mockingbird

    By Joseph Crespino  May 8, 2018
    Biography

    On James Baldwin’s Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine

    By Joseph Vogel  April 17, 2018
    Biography

    James Baldwin: ‘I Did Not Want to Weep for Martin, Tears Seemed Futile’

    By Jason Sokol  April 4, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Louisa May Alcott’s Mother Encouraged Her Early Writing

    By Gardner McFall  March 23, 2018
    Biography

    Alain Locke’s Controversial Vision of a “Negro Renaissance”

    By Jeffrey C. Stewart  March 16, 2018
    Biography

    How I Ended Up Writing the Legendary Paul Robeson’s Biography

    By Martin Duberman  March 5, 2018
    Biography

    Of the Island Home We Chose to Leave

    By Krystal A. Sital  February 21, 2018
    Profile

    What If Kafka Was the Best Relationship of My Twenties?

    By Dylan Foley  February 21, 2018
    Excerpts

    In Awe of Seabirds at the Edge of the World

    By Adam Nicolson  February 7, 2018
    Biography

    The Editor Who Pulled Joseph Conrad from the Slush Pile

    By Helen Smith  December 15, 2017
    Biography

    The Births and Deaths of Kathy Acker

    By Douglas A. Martin  November 30, 2017
    Excerpts

    How David Bowie Made Life Less Suffocating for Young Queer People

    By Darryl W. Bullock  November 28, 2017
    Biography

    Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

    By Ilan Stavans  November 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

    By Jeff Biggers  November 10, 2017
    Feature

    The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Sets a New High for the Celebrity Memoir

    By Katie Fustich  November 8, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Ugandan Reporter Shedding Light on the Lives of Missing Children

    By Jessica Yu  November 8, 2017
    Biography

    The Women Who Shaped Vladimir Lenin

    By Victor Sebestyen  November 7, 2017
    Excerpts

    Muhammad Ali, Author of “The Greatest Book of All Time”?

    By Jonathan Eig  November 1, 2017
    Excerpts

    When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

    By Mai Elliott  October 20, 2017
    Biography

    The Interview that Became Henry Kissinger’s “Most Disastrous Decision”

    By Cristina De Stefano  October 20, 2017
    Biography

    My 12-Hour Lunch Date with Joni Mitchell

    By David Yaffe  October 18, 2017
    Biography

    Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

    By Alan Pell Crawford  October 16, 2017
    Biography

    Herbert Hoover, Frustrated Playwright

    By Kenneth Whyte  October 11, 2017
    Biography

    Louisa May Alcott: A Difficult Woman Who Got Things Done

    By Elise Hooper  September 25, 2017
    Biography

    Writing Bellow’s Biography While He Was Still Alive

    By James Atlas  September 20, 2017
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