This biography of novelist Edna Ferber was written by her grandniece Julie Gilbert, who had access to Ferber's journals, ...

"GEORGE MASA: A LIFE REIMAGINED" by Janet McCue and Paul Bonesteel (Smokies Life, 320 pages, $29).

David Elmo Cooper, hailing from Brooklyn, New York, discovered his love of art, specifically comic books and graffiti, at a ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and ...

Author: Judith Glyde recently retired as a professor of cello and chamber music in the College of Music at the University of ...

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A new R.E.M. biography traces the beloved band's arc from small-town Georgia to the forefront of the alt-rock scene. It's now ...

The books of Brian Castro are postmodern pantomimes that mug the dictates of genre, without ever quite escaping them.

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Lili Anolik’s dual biography of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz makes a compelling case that the literary icons weren’t just ...

Alum draws upon friendship with ‘A River Runs Through It’ to illustrate how teacher and writer inspired generations of ...