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 ...

History’s greatest storytellers have always had a secret weapon: reality. The real lives of people who walked this earth centuries before us are often so improbable, so jaw-dropping, and so wildly ...

Writing biographies of bad people is challenging, said Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall. “Somehow monsters must be made to be human and complex if we are to understand why they behaved as they did.” ...

History has always been written by someone — and that someone had an agenda. Whether it was a loyal biographer burnishing a leader’s image, a government manufacturing a national hero, or centuries of ...