David Streitfeld’s impressive new biography, Western Star, has a subtitle that alludes to a notable part of his story: The ...

A new book about the children’s author is conscientious, respectful—and, like any good biography, dedicated to recovering vivid, occasionally unsettling particulars.

I have a confession: I am not a Judy Blume girlie. Sure, as a kid growing up in the 1990s, I enjoyed some of her books. I ...

Daniel Okrent's new biography, "Art Isn't Easy," pulls back the curtain on Stephen Sondheim's complicated life, including his ...

"Her work shaped me — both as a young woman and as a writer — in ways that can’t be overstated," the actress says of the ...

Between the secret abortions and the "smutty" adult novels her friends begged her to hide, the new biography "Judy Blume: A Life" feels as illicit as snooping through your mother’s nightstand.

It was like doing another college degree, but you’re majoring in Judy Blume,” Mark Oppenheimer (here in his Connecticut home) says of his extensive research.Credit...Jillian Freyer for The New York ...

Just in time for the country’s 250th birthday, “Being Thomas Jefferson” promises “an intimate history” of the primary author ...

Brian Cage shared that he's writing a biography about his life. He has been going through stories from his childhood.

Billy the Kid’s story has been told many times, and the tale truly is among the most famous classic western folk tales. As I ...

It might have been the most cultured house-share of the 20th century. In 1940, WH Auden was living in Brooklyn Heights in a ...

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy at the Annual Fundraising Gala on March 9, 1999 in New York City ; Diana the Princess of Wales, attends the wedding of her friend Anne Bolton. Diana was just 36 years old when ...