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 ...
Nicholas Boggs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug. 19 ($36, ISBN 978-0-374-17871-0) The first major biography of James Baldwin since 1994 weaves new interviews, research, and archival material into an ...
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 ...
This week, a new Australian political biography will appear on bookshelves. This is The Accidental Prime Minister, an examination of Scott Morrison by journalist Annika Smethurst. While a prime ...