The publication last fall of Edmund Morris’ “Dutch,” a book about Ronald Reagan that mixed fact and fiction, provoked great debate over the state of biography. At that time, literary editor Elizabeth ...

SEVERAL years ago the novelist David Lodge wrote the obituary of Park Honan, an author noted for his biographies, for the Guardian. Honan had written books on Jane Austen, Robert Browning, Matthew ...

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The biography has come of age as an artform, spawning ever more inventive ways of capturing the essence of a life. Far from its dry chronological origins, biography now resembles a camera lens ...

Any person can write a biography or memoir– can write the story of the life of a person living or already passed on. That person you are writing about does not have to be famous or politician etc.

In February 2017, I signed a contract to write a biography of Priyanka Chopra. It was important to talk to Priyanka and those close to her. I contacted her manager in the US and then spoke to her ...

My initial plan was to write a foot-stepping book, travelling around Ireland to see if any tangible signs of Richard Hayward existed but I was advised by my literary agent to instead write a biography ...

Walter Isaacson, the author behind the 2011 Steve Jobs biography published shortly after his death, is currently writing Elon Musk's life story. Fox Business reported back in June that the famous ...

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