Biographies have always been controversial. On his deathbed, the novelist Henry James told his nephew that his “sole wish” was to “frustrate as utterly as possible the postmortem exploiter” by ...

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Why do only famous people have biographies? This is the question that two young sisters,7-year-old Aishvarya, and 11-year-old Vaishali, asked their parents. They were reading biographies in school and ...

Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., and Alexander Hamilton – have you ever wondered how these great people became great? Biographies teach us the value of struggle in pursuit of goals and beliefs ...

When kids are at a loss for what to read, I often find myself pushing them toward the biography section. We like stories about people and a biography can draw us further into a favorite subject. As I ...

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about literature that has gone on to find new life in the form of movies, television shows, theatrical productions and ...