Biography

The Editor Who Pulled Joseph Conrad from the Slush Pile

How Edward Garnett gave a 37-Year-Old Conrad his First Big Break

 
By Helen Smith  November 30, 2017
Biography

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

By Ilan Stavans  November 14, 2017
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The Women Who Shaped Vladimir Lenin

By Victor Sebestyen  November 7, 2017
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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
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Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

By Alan Pell Crawford  October 16, 2017
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The Man Who Dared Photograph the Dead

By Peter Manseau  October 12, 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
Biography

I Bought Sam Shepard’s Clothes Off the Internet

By John Winters  June 30, 2017
Biography

How Sherlock Holmes Got His Name

By Michael Sims  January 25, 2017
Biography

By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 9, 2016
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Literary Frenemies: Jean Cocteau and Marcel Proust

By Claude Arnaud  October 24, 2016
Biography

Girl Trouble

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 14, 2016
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So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

By Lisa Levy  October 13, 2016
Biography

Shirley Jackson Wasn’t Actually a Witch

By Ruth Franklin  September 28, 2016
Biography

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

By Charles Arrowsmith  September 14, 2016
Biography

On the Celibate Love Affair of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols

By Richard Cohen  September 12, 2016
Biography

The Forgotten History of Florence’s Mixed-Race Medici

By Catherine Fletcher  September 2, 2016
Biography

Dispatches From A Punk Tour of the Balkans

By Franz Nicolay  September 2, 2016
Biography

The Woman Who Launched a Newspaper During WWII

By Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen  August 24, 2016
Biography

On Max Perkins, One of America’s Greatest Editors

By A. Scott Berg  June 13, 2016
Biography

The Origins of Diane Arbus’s Most Famous Photograph

By Arthur Lubow  June 9, 2016
Biography

Neither Mad Nor Motherless: On Emily Dickinson’s Self-Creation

By Jerome Charyn  March 22, 2016
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