Throughout this biography, Gooch argues that O'Connor's private life seeped into her public writing. Though some critics deplore the assumption that an artist's life can be seen in her stories, Gooch ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the late 1990s, Paul Reid, then a journalist with The Palm Beach Post, became close friends with acclaimed author and historian William Manchester after covering a reunion of ...
Adam Sisman seems dazed. The night before I speak with him, he attended a launch party for his latest book, the 672-page biography John le Carré, about the prolific British spy novelist, which took ...
The hard work of literary biography proceeds apace even as editors at the major trade book houses declare it dead and are wary of offending literary estates and the very subjects of the biographies ...
The new Alan Moore biography, Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore, will be available to readers in December in the USA, but if you had your ear to the ground at New York Comic Con, you ...
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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