Biography Archives
Bob Dylan - Two hundred and twenty reviews into this venture, and not one about Bob Dylan. What does that tell you? It might suggest that the proprietor of
Branch Rickey, Jimmy Breslin - On the morning before John F.
Broken: A Love Story, Lisa Jones - It's two for one in "Broken: A Love Story" --- biography and autobiography merge in the dusty horse corrals of Wyoming's Wind River Reservat
Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence, C.R. Stecyk III -     Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decade
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin, Myra Friedman -       Everybody knows about Janis Joplin.
Camus, A Romance, Elizabeth Hawes - On January 4, 1960 --- exactly fifty years ago --- Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket.
Charlatan, Pope Brock -     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the M
Churchill, Paul Johnson - Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and also the most likab
Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, Trevor Dann -   Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake Trevor Dann Friends said that Nick Drake's music “brushes the ear.
Diane Arbus, Patricia Bosworth - We reeled out of the Diana Arbus show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art into the blissful order of the Renaissance art rooms. You would have too.
Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora, C.R Stecyk III and Drew Campion - There must be something in the water. I’ve just praised the “bad” boys who made great movies at Paramount Pictures in the late &lsqu
Everybody Was So Young, Amanda Vaill - Zelda Fitzgerald, after a painful life, suffered a terrible death --- she was a patient at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carol
Forty Ways to Look at JFK, Gretchen Rubin - Who does this sound like? He was an indifferent student.
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation, Sheila Weller - 525 pages about Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon --- and this is the beach book for smart boomer women? I'm not kidding.
How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living, Karen Karbo - Anybody feel the need to know one thing more about Georgia O’Keefe?   How about Coco Chanel?   And, while we’re at it, let&rsquo
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: An Autobiography in Books - In 1986, I wrote a cover story for New York magazine called “The Working Rich: The Real Slaves of New York." My focus was on Carolyne Roehm
Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman, Patricia Bosworth - Google “Jane Fonda +hate site” and you get 10 million results. In contrast, "Sarah Palin +hate site" gets 109 million.
Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas, Tom Callahan - His father died when he was five, leaving behind a hard-pressed family and a coal-delivery business.
Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice, Elias Canetti - “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K.
Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life And Times of Doc Pomus, Alex Halberstadt - He was short and stubby. He’d had polio at 9; he couldn’t walk without braces and crutches.