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 ...

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The organization will share longlists across six genres in honor of its 50th anniversary The National Books Critics Circle Awards has shared its first-ever longlist for Autobiography. On Dec. 17, the ...

There's nothing like a real-life read to get your blood pumping. Enter, the best autobiography books to pick up now. Baek Sehee's second volume of memoirs further explores her psychiatric sessions and ...

Janet Malcolm once emailed to tell me she found an introduction I had written for my book on writers’ deaths, which included my own thoughts on a childhood illness, to be “surprising” but “powerful.” ...

THINKING IT OVER—Hesketh Pearson—Harper ($3.50). Hesketh Pearson is an impressionable, aggressive English biographer and actor, a hater of psychology, politics, literary “style,” for whom “two and two ...