Artist Biographies

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote The Michael Jackson Tapes, and this is a review of his work.

Dec 8, 2009 - Lindsey Mason

Faced with wanderlust and the urge to see the country he had written so long and lovingly about, author John Steinbeck loaded up his trusty Rocinante, takes to the road!

Oct 15, 2009 - Nicholas Morine

Famed novelist Edna O'Brien does a wonderful job summarizing the world of English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron in Byron in Love - A Short Daring Life.

Oct 7, 2009 - Douglas Nordfors

Part travelogue, part literary criticism, part biography, "Out of Sheer Rage" cross-pollinates genres and comes up with a weird but ultimately brilliant bloom.

Aug 10, 2009 - Natasha Rivett-Carnac

Proust wrote In Search of Lost Time from his bed in a cork-lined, precisely arranged room which served as his bedroom, his shelter, his memory and his study.

Jun 27, 2009 - Lito Apostolakou

Vinnie Ream's talent was obvious to anyone who spent time in her studio. It's how she played powerful men to showcase that talent that makes for interesting conversation.

Jun 14, 2009 - Dianha Simpson

Blake Bailey's new biography of the well-known difficult life of John Cheever doesn't do enough to illuminate Cheever's valuable place in American literature.

Jun 9, 2009 - Douglas Nordfors

Robert McCrum traces the life of British humourist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, and in so doing, creates a precis of the 20th century.

May 22, 2009 - Deirdre Swain

Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway carved their creative visions into the first half of the 20th century. Today, their influence is still strong.

Apr 23, 2009 - Fred Hasson

While himself subsisting on a diet of coffee and croissants, Marcel Proust saw food as revealing the hidden essence of reality and cooking as an art form.

Mar 27, 2009 - Lito Apostolakou

In The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved, Judith Freeman focuses on Chandler's marriage to a woman 18 years his senior and his nomadic lifestyle.

Mar 13, 2009 - Bryce Coleman

Joss Whedon, the man behind the hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has led a spectacularly creative life, detailed by fan Candace Havens in this enjoyable biography.

Jan 13, 2009 - Steve Williams

Virginia Woolf is a highly regarded essayist, novelist, critic, short story writer, diarist, and biographer.

Oct 12, 2008 - Jen Syrkiewicz

A review of Nature's Engraver, Jenny Uglow's fascinating biography of Thomas Bewick, the noted English artist and ornithologist.

Oct 6, 2008 - Erin Britton

Dale Chihuly, an international glass artist, will create a special installation at the Chace Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sep 8, 2008 - D. Yvette Wohn

In "To the Lighthouse," Virgina Woolf does not even appear as a character. She explains herself only through the eyes of others.

Sep 4, 2008 - Anne Wakefield

With clarity and candor Warhol leads us into the foundations of Pop Art's egalitarian stance while also revealing the individual artist that is Andy Warhol.

Jun 25, 2008 - Leah Cave

Biographies of female artists can be very inspiring. Arbus, Kahlo and O'Keefe's lives continue to fascinate and compel further acts of creation.

Jun 5, 2008 - Catherine Owen

A review of Fiona McCarthy's superb one-volume biography of Romantic poet Lord Byron.

Apr 26, 2008 - Martyn Conterio

Michaelis reveals how Charles Schulz's lonely childhood shaped his later life and his extraordinary comic strip about Good Old Charlie Brown.

Apr 8, 2008 - Joan Prefontaine