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

The Vatican — with its politics, its pageantry and its power — has long been a favorite subject for artists and thinkers. By Amelia Nierenberg Catholicism, for better or worse, has produced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Written with "lovely candour", this is a wonderfully enjoyable autobiography, said Peter York in Literary Review, evoking a "golden age" of journalism that has now "utterly vanished". John & Paul ...

We’ve surveyed the publishing calendar and picked the must-read life stories of 2025—a list that encompasses both biography and memoir. If you find comfort or inspiration in reading about the ...