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 ...

Few episodes in American history approach in picturesqueness the part borne by Lafayette in our struggle for national existence as described in the elaborate volumes of Mr. Tower. 4 At an age that ...

Barry A Murray Front Book Cover for Echoes of a Voice for Justice Anita Hackley Lambert Releases Second Historical Biography, "Echoes of a Voice for Justice: The Story of Barry A. Murray," for Black ...

Gillian Tindall, who has died aged 87, was once described as a “master of miniaturist history” and while she ranged from ...

Shortly after the publication of Lea Ypi’s 2021 memoir “Free,” which recounts her childhood in Albania before and after the ...

John Bew has been awarded the 2017 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography for his book Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (riverrun/Quercus). Bew won the £5,000 prize for his book, which ...

A new book by Manx-born author Robert Kermeen examines the life and influence of Queen Soraya Bakhtiari, the second wife of the Shah of Iran, and poses a provocative question: Did Queen Soraya’s ...

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And in pretty much every fairy tale, that’s all it takes for a Happy (or not-so-Happy) Ending: he decrees, and it is so. And in the new book “Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter” by Kate Clifford ...