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Herbert Hoover, Frustrated Playwright

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

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

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 <em>Curious George</em>

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

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

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

By Pierre Lassus | August 1, 2017

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

By 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”

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

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

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On the Early Reception of The Sadeian Woman and The Bloody Chamber

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How a Husband's Loving Biography Ruined His Wife's Reputation

How a Husband's Loving Biography Ruined His Wife's Reputation

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Zora Neale Hurston: The College Years

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From a New Graphic Biography of a Great American Writer

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William Seabrook, Great Travel Writer, Terrible Human

William Seabrook, Great Travel Writer, Terrible Human

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How Clara Hale and Audre Lorde Helped to Make New York

How Clara Hale and Audre Lorde Helped to Make New York

An Excerpt from Julie Scelfo's Anthology of Illustrated Biographies

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