Each is animated by the author’s love—for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can ...

Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

Long ago, back in the year of 2006, there lived a young man named DeAndre Way, who would later become Soulja Boy, or Soulja Boy Tell'em depending on how formal you want to be. Sure of the fact that he ...

One of the great chroniclers of America’s literary lives takes on the author who fought to control his own story. Blake Bailey, biographer.Credit...Phyllis B. Dooney for The New York Times Supported ...

Forty years ago, I telephoned Richard Ellmann, then recently retired as Goldsmiths’ professor of English literature at Oxford, and asked him to review the critic William Empson’s last book, “Using ...