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

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ATLANTA — A new biography of John Lewis promises a “comprehensive, authoritative” look back at the life of the Civil Rights leader and congressman. Lewis represented Georgia’s 5th District in the ...

When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author instead, she felt as if she “had been freed from prison.” The writing in the biography, ...

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 ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...

When ghostwriter-turned-author Charlie Goodyear began looking about for a compelling subject in his own right, he turned to historical periods that he thought would illuminate contemporary life, ...

A new entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography highlights the life of early Moose Jaw pioneer Edward Nicholas Hopkins.