When kids are at a loss for what to read, I often find myself pushing them toward the biography section. We like stories about people and a biography can draw us further into a favorite subject. As I ...

Biographies have always been controversial. On his deathbed, the novelist Henry James told his nephew that his “sole wish” was to “frustrate as utterly as possible the postmortem exploiter” by ...

THERE comes a period when the work and character of a great man can be fairly summed up for all time by the biographer; when the judgment is as nearly in focus as ever the fallible human judgment can ...

Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., and Alexander Hamilton – have you ever wondered how these great people became great? Biographies teach us the value of struggle in pursuit of goals and beliefs ...