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Biography
Herbert Hoover, Frustrated Playwright
How He Sought to Bring the Figure of the Mining Engineer to the Stage
By
Kenneth Whyte
| October 11, 2017
Louisa May Alcott: A Difficult Woman Who Got Things Done
On Writing the Alcott Sisters, in All Their Complexity
By
Elise Hooper
| September 25, 2017
Writing Bellow's Biography While He Was Still Alive
James Atlas on the Dangers of Befriending Your Subject
By
James Atlas
| September 20, 2017
The German-Jewish Refugees Who Created
Curious George
"Theirs Was a Life of Exile and, Thereafter, Self-Invention"
By
Nicholas Delbanco
| September 15, 2017
How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée
"He Wanted Martha to Remember That She Was Nothing Very Special"
By
Frederick Crews
| August 22, 2017
John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish
A Writer and a Poet in Communion
By
John Berger
| August 9, 2017
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When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Disappeared
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Pierre Lassus
| August 1, 2017
Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community
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Laura Dassow Walls
| July 12, 2017
Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger
By
Richard Higgins
| July 12, 2017
The Superhuman Charm of Ernest Hemingway, the “Most Shot-Up Man in America”
On the Original Charmer of the Lost Generation
By
Mary V. Dearborn
| May 16, 2017
The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen
Lies, Damn Lies, and Literary Scholarship
By
Helena Kelly
| May 3, 2017
In Which Angela Carter Gives No F*cks
On the Early Reception of
The Sadeian Woman
and
The Bloody Chamber
By
Edmund Gordon
| March 29, 2017
How a Husband's Loving Biography Ruined His Wife's Reputation
On William Godwin's Scrupulously Honest Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
By
Richard Holmes
| March 21, 2017
Zora Neale Hurston: The College Years
From a New Graphic Biography of a Great American Writer
By
Peter Bagge
| March 20, 2017
William Seabrook, Great Travel Writer, Terrible Human
From the Graphic Biography,
The Abominable Mr. Seabrook
By
Joe Ollman
| February 17, 2017
How Clara Hale and Audre Lorde Helped to Make New York
An Excerpt from Julie Scelfo's Anthology of Illustrated Biographies
By
Julie Scelfo
| January 27, 2017
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Novelist Van Jensen Talks with His Mother, Acclaimed Painter Jean Jensen, About Art, Literature, and Family
January 16, 2026
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Van Jensen
The Historical Implications and Fictional Possibilities of the Hindenberg Disaster
January 16, 2026
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L. A. Chandlar
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