Not only are they informative and interesting, but the very best biographies are as entertaining, compelling, engaging, and page-turning as fiction. We've rounded up the best biographies of all time about writers, scientists, athletes, politicians, and e
Biographer Richard Holmes once wrote that his work was “a kind of pursuit… writing about the pursuit of that fleeting figure, in such a way as to bring them alive in the present.”At the risk of sounding cliché, the best biographies do exactly this: bring their subjects to life. A ...
Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” was published early last year to nearly instant acclaim and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Biography earlier this year. Eig is a journalist and author previously best-known for his biographies “Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig” (2005) and...
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Country and the Very Best Music Biographies One of our favorite quotes from The Blues Brothers movie has to be, “We haveboth kinds of music… Country and Western”. We had a hard time choosing the biography to talk about here. Finally, we plumped for one of the best music autobiographie...
Here are our picks for the best biographies of all time. These are listed in no particular order, as it was already hard enough to narrow them down this much. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot About the Biography:This biography focuses on the life of Henrietta Lacks. A...
Posthumously she became the subject of two biographies and a television film, Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, as well as television documentaries. The 1996 feature film Up Close and Personal starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford was very loosely based on her life, with ...
he watched a marathon of classic Alfred Hitchcock films on Cinemax and the rest is history. He furthered his film education by raiding used bookstores to read dusty old film criticism volumes and salacious movie star biographies. His real education included studying at Whitman College and then Sy...
Posthumously she became the subject of two biographies and a television film, Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, as well as television documentaries. The 1996 feature film Up Close and Personal starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford was very loosely based on her life, with ...