The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

Conspicuously left out from the reading-as-therapy discussion are biography and autobiography, a regrettable omission given what these genres can teach us. Life stories packed into 200 or 300 ...

"The Magic Hours", the first comprehensive biography of Hollywood’s most mysterious movie makers, has hit shelves. British ...

Pope Francis’ new memoir, “Hope: The Autobiography” (Penguin/Viking), ghost-written by Carlo Musso, strikes me as a luminous example of these skills. What keeps jumping out at you is the ...

Susan George, the acclaimed actress, is set to release an autobiography—could it finally reveal details about her rumoured ...

Patrick McGilligan’s exhaustive biography “Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham” addresses such questions, though it would be a stretch to say it weighs in on them. To the extent ...

Occasional snow on the ground and a cup of hot cocoa or tea and it is time to restock bookshelves for the rest of your winter ...

As anyone who has spent time in a publishing house knows only too well, the notion that ‘there’s a book in everyone’ is a cruel lie. Be that as it may, autobiography is the one branch of writing at ...