This year’s Star Wars Day celebrations promise excitement following the Japan celebration. Local events in Phoenix include themed displays, meetups, special screenings, and community engagement. The ...

His Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1906, for his work in settling the Russian-Japanese War. He was the first American to ...

The difference between a memoir vs biography is that a biography does not include the subject as an author and must not have ...

The University of Guam Press released its first publication of 2025 to an overflow crowd at Government House in Agana Heights ...

The overall impression was of a painful autobiography set down with brush & paint. At 42, Frida Kahlo has a lot of painful memories to wash away. She was just 16 when she was smashed up in a bus ...

In “Sister, Sinner,” an engrossing new biography of McPherson, the journalist Claire Hoffman traces the spectacular life and career of a preacher who started a Christian movement that has ...

Early in the first essay of Sir William Empson’s last book his Chinese expertise comes in handy. He quotes an officiously vague sentence of Emile Legouis on Marvell’s use of mythology and deftly ...

Pope Francis was born in 1936, and grew up in Buenos Aires, in the barrio of Flores, a simple neighbourhood. After spells working in a sock factory, Francis became a Jesuit novice in 1958; he was ...

To take just one example, she describes Bob Dylan’s attempts to explain his lyrics to her as sexy “cerebral jangling.” But in Faithfull’s case, nothing beats the life. Born to an Austrian ...

Journalist with 30 years in news writing for CNN, KLAS-TV, WCMH-TV, Newsweek, Mediaite, and RawStory. Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast ...

It was the death of Auberon ('Bron') Waugh nearly three years ago that led his son Alexander to investigate the relationships between fathers and sons over five generations of his family. Alexander ...