THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout his ...

Five years ago, after the appearance of several lacklustre lives, it seemed the biography was dying. But thanks to a number of striking innovations, the patient has made a complete recovery In 2008 I ...

Florine Stettheimer is the woman under the green parasol, stage right of Asbury Park South (1920)—an exuberant 4th of July scene, set on a golden New Jersey beach. Her self-portrait is easy to spot ...

With unprecedented access to Miranda’s inner circle and more than 150 original interviews—including conversations with family, collaborators, and Miranda himself—Pollack-Pelzner’s book offers a deeply ...

‘To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies,” Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig in 1936. “Biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were to be had, we could not ...