Tag Archives: Biography

Frey's true legacy may be that he helped bring an end of sharing oneself, and we can go back to sharing chocolates and comics.

In the world according to Oprah, Oprah is infallible and you forget that at your peril.

All memoirs are somewhat fictionalized, right?

James Landale's ancestor, an otherwise apparently dull but worthy Scottish businessman, fought the last known fatal duel in the nation's history.

A personal view of the best and worst books in 2005.

A harrowing memoir of racism, religion and dysfunction in a midwestern Christian family.

"Well you get a pile of really nice wood and a sharp whittling knife...carve away everything that isn't a guitar"

Steve Goodman: Face The Music: new biography of the man who wrote "City Of New Orleans"

A writer uses her resources and talents to intimately detail and explore personal loss.

A distinguished feminist historian says there were 300 learned women up until 1700. Stevenson multiplies that figure by ten.