David G. Gitkov has invited readers on a journey spanning continents, seas, and decades in A Long, Long Watch: Volume II: The Sea: 1925 to 1946. This remarkable historical biography chronicles ...

The result is a sympathetic biography in so far as the writer puts himself dramatically in the place of Hutchinson ; it is also, though to less extent, a critical study of the character of the man ...

Biographies play an important role in studying the full story of past Americans by exploring their successes and how they reached their goals. Here are the five elements of an excellent biography ...

Not every amazing woman in history became famous for her awesomeness. Many of them were everyday women, just like us. In this biography of three generations of women, Jung Chang tells the stories ...

Dr Amanda Foreman gave the inaugural HarperCollins biography lecture, which explored the techniques and practices behind historical biographical research and writing as used in Georgiana, and in ...

The groundbreaking biography broke all known record sales of a female historical subject by a female author. The book launched Antonia Fraser's career and she went on to write eight more ...

She's been famous for 12 years, in literary-historical circles, as the author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography in 1998.

Young writers from across the UK and Ireland have the opportunity to win a prize of £2000 by entering a new essay competition ...

Guha explained why he believes the biography, unlike novels, plays or poetry, is an underdeveloped genre in India-giving seven reasons why-and also gave the audience a few rules or 'laws' for ...