"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." John F. Kennedy Jr. never knew a life out of the public eye. Born three weeks after his father was ...

A life story can be read for escapist pleasure. But at other times, reading a memoir or biography can be an expansive exercise, opening us up to broader truths about our world. Often, it’s an edifying ...

Two new biographies focus on legendary musical acts: the rock band The Cars and rapper Tupac Shakur. First, in the late 1970s, a Boston radio DJ played The Cars’ demo tape – and the band went on to ...

A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda. Agnès Varda at home in 2009.Credit...Owen Franken for The New York Times Supported by By Dwight Garner When you ...

If Sam Mendes’s four-part Beatles movies set to come out in 2028 is not enough to satiate your Beatlemania, worry not: a new book about John Lennon and Paul McCartney releases this April. Aptly titled ...

A. K. Smiley Public Library has many new biographies to choose from, with more coming soon. Selections include presidents, scientists, military and international leaders, civil rights activists, ...

Bill Sumio Naito, who died at age 70 in 1996, was a Portland-born son of Japanese immigrants who became one of the city’s most significant business and civic leaders. Erica Naito-Campbell, his ...

The charm and concision of the best graphic biographies provide dramatic scenes and pithy captions that can evoke a life better than whole paragraphs and pages of narrative biographies. Even so, ...

Nicholas Boggs discussed his new James Baldwin biography “Baldwin: A Love Story,” with New York Times columnist John McWhorter.

No publication date has been set yet, Dan Nadel writes, "I've been wanting to write the biography of his genius artist for many years. It'll take in Depression-era New York, Jewish culture, World War ...