We hope you enjoyed digging into our Black History Month memoirs as much as we did. And if you are hungry for more good, true stories about people you may not know much about, for Women's History ...

After reading my new biography of World War II spy Virginia Hall, Code Name Badass, a seasoned biographer told me, “I’m... pleasantly surprised you got away with it!” The surprise was justified: it’s ...

jamelah/Flickr Biographies allow us to walk in someone else's shoes. Whether they provide a glimpse into the past or capture the life of a contemporary icon, biographies and memoirs let us walk in ...

Biographies have always been controversial. On his deathbed, the novelist Henry James told his nephew that his “sole wish” was to “frustrate as utterly as possible the postmortem exploiter” by ...

It started innocently: I saw a TV show, then read the book it was based on. The book, David McCullough’s “John Adams,” wasn’t exactly a page turner. But to understand John Adams, it seemed I would ...

In this, Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, tells the story of his unbelievable journey from a young man searching for his identity to a leader of the masses. In ...

In the beautiful and moving biography Janis: Her Life and Music, Holly George-Warren paints a complex portrait of singer Janis Joplin. Drawing on archival materials as well as interviews with Joplin’s ...