Ruden in her preface stated that she decided to write a biography of Vergil largely out of curiosity. She is the author of an acclaimed translation of the Aeneid, and she became increasingly intrigued ...

Royal biographies are a bit like buses. You wait for one, and then two come along at once. Had Ingrid Seward’s latest book been published before Robert Hardman’s headline-grabbing Charles III, it ...

So you landed a stage role—congrats! Whether you’re making your Broadway debut or playing Villager #4 in a school musical, your name is about to be in print. Now you have one task: writing your ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has commissioned a new official biography of its 19th-century charismatic founder, to be titled simply: “Joseph the Prophet.” The new volume about ...

C.M. Lucca was a staff writer for the City Paper from 1982 to 1989, and a Pulitzer winner for her investigative reporting. Despite that, she’s now best known as the widow of the conceptual artist, ...