We've compiled the best biographies, books and documentaries about Marilyn Monroe in celebration of the screen icon's 100th ...

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Literary “It-girls” and their complicated legacies. Candid reflections on lives fractured by devastating injuries. Art world excess. And a deep dive into what it truly means to be a sociopath. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From examinations of tense presidential runs to the politicians unexpectedly ascending to the highest office in the land, these ...

1. It’s barely 30 years old, but this feels like the Great Granddaddy of philosophical biography. The book’s subtitle, “The Duty of Genius,” perfectly captures the subject. If the Austrian-born Ludwig ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. For some, Love Story served as an introduction to John F. Kennedy Jr. and ...

ALTHOUGH I WRITE biographies, as well as mini-biographies week by week in the form of The Economist’s obituaries, I’m not a great reader of them. Too often they leave me dissatisfied, feeling that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biographies have always been controversial. On his deathbed, the novelist Henry James told his nephew that his “sole wish” was to ...