Msgr. John Tracy Ellis was known as "dean of American church historians," an unofficial title that captured both his stature and his longevity. When he began his studies, church history was mostly ...

What strange beasts literary biographies are, how mixed their reasons for existing. The desire to read one must come from admiration for the writer’s work, but a literary biographer’s central concern ...

ATLANTA — A new biography of John Lewis promises a “comprehensive, authoritative” look back at the life of the Civil Rights leader and congressman. Lewis represented Georgia’s 5th District in the ...

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When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author instead, she felt as if she “had been freed from prison.” The writing in the biography, ...

When ghostwriter-turned-author Charlie Goodyear began looking about for a compelling subject in his own right, he turned to historical periods that he thought would illuminate contemporary life, ...

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