Written by Rolling Stone journalist Jonathan Bernstein, the new book dives into the late singer's life and legacy ...

While on one of his out-of-town trips, Bruce White received an irate call from his father Dean White [hotel and billboard billionaire and visionary founder of Star Plaza Theatre], ordering his son to ...

The charm and concision of the best graphic biographies provide dramatic scenes and pithy captions that can evoke a life better than whole paragraphs and pages of narrative biographies. Even so, ...

Sometimes, nice guys do finish first. This notion suffuses practically every page of “Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist,” Daniel Pollack-Pelzner’s worshipful, virtually-no-warts-at-all ...

Plutarch’s portrayal of parallel lives is the paradigm James Grant pursues in his dynamic dual biography of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, two politicians and orators of markedly different ...

For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes in “Wild Thing,” her terrific new biography of the artist, for about a ...

“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past.” That notion thrums through two of the most absorbing biographies of the year Tiya Miles’s *Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...