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Judy Blume is now the subject of a new biography, journalist Mark Oppenheimer's 'Judy Blume: A Life.' The historian-author ...
Research into James Baldwin's archives reveals incisive details about the writer's personal relationships, both platonic and ...
Larry: A New Biography evokes a lovable cad, whose problematic behaviours Haag either skims over or defends vehemently ...
The Legendary Tugboat Captain Annie Brennan of Puget Sound” by Bernard A. Drew, is a dual biography of the character of Annie ...
Casual readers of Elmore Leonard may be turned off by the minutia in this biography of the popular American writer. But true Leonard fans will love the heavily detailed account, with page after page ...
The Making of Mike Tyson,” moves from the boxer’s birth in 1966 to 1988, what writer Mark Kriegel calls “the year of (Tyson’s ...
Just John Films have optioned Jennifer Wright’s biography of Victorian abortionist Madame Restell, Variety can confirm, with the writer behind Netflix’s “Persuasian” film set to adapt the ...
Early in his 2003 memoir, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” Israeli writer Amos Oz kicks Philip Roth in the shins. Oz recounts how his grandparents, before emigrating from Odessa, Ukraine, to ...
The autobiography of a lifelong teetotaler, detailing the struggles of resisting temptations and leading a life free from intoxicants, is a timely and truthful record of its era, said the Dr Peter ...
Who is the ‘real’ Atticus?The saint of ‘Mockingbird’ or the flawed patriarch of ‘Go Set a Watchman’?