Who reads literary biographies these days? The question is pertinent because the audience and the advances for literary biography have been shrinking since the 1980s. Of course certain subjects, like ...

Here's one sure way to incite Barbra Streisand's wrath: Write a book about her. Christopher Anderson has learned that with his recently published biography, "Barbra: The Way She Is." Streisand has ...

In the skillful writing of biographer Nigel Hamilton, history is a living thing, something you can see and hear, reach out and touch. History has an immediacy for him that has come to life in more ...

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Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen will write a biography of the late filmmaker Nora Ephron. Cohen was a longtime friend of the filmmaker, who wrote the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally and ...

NPR's Bob Edwards talks with writer Bobbie Ann Mason about her new biography of Elvis Presley, part of the Penguin Lives series. Mason says she started out thinking other people might have better ...