In his recent chronicle of Freud’s life Becoming Freud: the Making of a Psychoanalyst (2014), Adam Phillips expresses a skeptical view of biography, arguing it’s a perniciously misleading fiction (136 ...

2002-02-16T19:57:00-05:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/BookTV_default-image.jpgTwo authors compared and contrasted the writing of memoirs for both living and ...

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 ...

“The moon is a dead body, having nothing but reflected light: but it can blot out the sun,” writes Michael Holroyd, explaining why people often fear becoming the subject of biographies. “Whenever a ...

2004-12-26T17:12:36-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6d1/20041226175405002.jpgMichael Korda spoke with authors Christopher Hitchens and Francine Prose about ...

There is a popular trend in modern biographical writing. Take a slice of a famous person’s life and treat it like a novel by supplying a dramatic arc and employing constructive imagination to fill in ...

Below left: Berg holds a photograph of Wilson used in his 1910 campaign for governor of New Jersey. Although he has been researching and thinking about Wilson for 35 years, he hasn't yet reached a ...

Karen Fox does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Women’s history, written and performed by women, provides new and challenging perspectives on the past. So it is with three new biographies of women in colonial and contemporary America. In “The ...