Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

"At first, I thought maybe I was the wrong person for the job of writing this book," writes Joshua Gamson in the acknowledgments section of "The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in ...

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," is one of the most celebrated opening lines in a 20th-century novel, but it's also a mission statement by its author ...

James McWilliams's biography details the life and work of poet Frank Stanford. Stanford, born in Mississippi and raised in Tennessee and Arkansas, died by suicide at age 29. His epic poem "The ...

Dear Family, Friends, Colleagues, Fellow Scribblers, Brothers & Sisters, Comrades: We are aware that a self-appointed would-be biographer, one Stephen Phillips, is embarked on a book on Christopher.

Halfway through the novel Biography of X, the X in question — a brilliant performance artist, daring political dissident, and, according to her biographer, kind of a cruel jerk — is described by David ...