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 ...

Author and longtime Cobb County resident Marc Hyden recently released “Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Saviour,” which was internationally published in the United Kingdom and the United ...

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

Novelized accounts of historical figures’ lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history and find people talking and acting the way we do? By Megan Marshall Megan ...

This week, a new biography of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was welcomed by critics while new titles in historical fiction ...

Jean Fritz, the author of nearly 50 books for children, most of them fast-paced, vividly written works of history and biography, died May 14 at a retirement home in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. She was 101.

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and ...

Local Authors Honored with National Book Award for Biography on South Carolina Medical Pioneer 🏆 ...

While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such ...

What are books, but bridges? A book can be a portal into another perspective, a link to forgotten time periods, a path to heightened understanding and emotional truths. To honor Black History Month, ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, as the song goes. Christmas means parties and eggnog and presents and tree-trimming and oh yes, carols on an endless loop. How did we get here? London-based ...