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 ...

Although the new biography of Aaron Rodgers doesn’t totally resolve the mystery of the quarterback’s years-long conflict with his family, it argues that religion played a role.

Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist ...

In biography the breaking of an arm may be as significant as the fall of a cabinet. Of this fact, Strachey, Maurois, and Ludwig were not ignorant.

One winter, Jill Lepore, the prolific historian and New Yorker correspondent, taught a course called “What Is Biography?” ...

Gabrielle Carey's brief biography collects the essential details of Joyce's life and delivers them in a delightful, underplayed way.

What is wrong with biography? The short answer is nothing, yet every so often an article appears bemoaning the genre’s inadequacy. The latest example, “The Slippery Art of Biography” in Lit Hub, ...

A new biography about Gwyneth Paltrow has garnered media interest for revealing details about her career, relationships, and public feuds.

A personal biography is not the time for puffery or setting forth delusions of grandeur. People want to know factual information about the attorney they are considering hiring. Sure, some may ...