Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a book written by Robert Caro. The book is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 biography of Robert Moses, "New York City's Master Builder". In the ...

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 ...

At one time or another, everyone has had the urge to read about someone famous. Whether it is an outstanding athlete, a heroic astronaut or a notorious criminal, there is an innate fascination with ...

Biographies of famous people indulge our deepest voyeuristic tendencies, the base need to discover previously unknown vignettes from their lives. TV journalist Yasser Usman’s recent biography, Rekha: ...

An autobiography is a self-written description of the life of oneself. While biography is an account of someone's life written by someone else. The basic reason behind the writing a autobiography or ...

She is 8 years old. The doctor says she has rheumatic fever and she must stay in bed — for three months. She can’t believe it. Three months! She’s already bored to tears. More than 40 years later, ...