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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

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Disappeared

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Disappeared

Life Imitated Art for the Author of The Little Prince

By Pierre Lassus | August 1, 2017

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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

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

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

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

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

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

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son's Legacy

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son's Legacy

"M.L. had chosen to do was unquestionably right."

By The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. | January 16, 2017

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