The volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography. If not in the columns of the Atlantic, where else, by the way, should it be asked why the Letters of Lanier, edited by Mr. W. R.

THE reading of biography and of autobiography must be approached at widely divergent angles. The biography is in large measure a piece of work, well or ill done;, the autobiography, if sincere, is ...

Online exhibit presenting biographies of several important Americans that reflect the circumstances of their times, providing a personal perspective on the past, and making up a fascinating and ...

"Sitting Bull," by Bill Yenne, hardcover, 20 black and white illustrations, 448 pages, Westholme Publishing, $29.95, April 2008. When Sitting Bull met Jerome Stillson of the New York Herald, he was ...

Political reporter Olivia Nuzzi detailed her romantic relationship with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F.

As an editor and book critic, Malcolm Cowley backed innovative 20th-century writers. His greatest achievement may have been ...

For thousands of years, Native Americans have been in the land that’s now known as the United States of America. And yet, their history is still new to most Americans. In fact, the first presidential ...

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...

Sideshow and Janus Films have bought North American rights for “Orlando, My Political Biography,” Paul B. Preciado’s film which won four awards at the Berlinale. In “Orlando, My Political Biography,” ...

Bruce Lee shifted the U.S. zeitgeist, and author Jeff Chang maps out "how Kung Fu became American" in his newest book.

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.