In Girls, we see the gals dancing, eating, crying, and hiding under the covers, but, at least in the trailers, we don’t see them reading much. Perhaps their terribly difficult early adulthoods would be eased by the knowledge that they are far from the first to experience such pain and confusion.(READ MORE)
Sonia Sotomayor's memoir My Beloved World (also available in Spanish as Mi Mundo Adorado) is brimming with unbridled drive, compassion and insight from the Supreme Court's first ever Hispanic justice.(READ MORE)
In an interview with Biographile, Carol Gilligan delves into the ever timely topic of gender stereotypes -- from ethics to history, democracy to emotion.(READ MORE)
Roger Ailes is the subject of a new biography penned by New York Magazine writer Gabriel Sherman, two of Australia's most timeless musical imports are the subject of a new TV biopic series, Gregg Allman gets involved with Midnight Rider, and John Rizzo pens C.I.A. memoir. (READ MORE)
Upon hearing of the tumult in her home country, Ahdaf Soueif dashed home to document the protests in Tahrir Square. For more memoirs and biographies about Cairo and Egypt through the ages, check out the following books.(READ MORE)
In the riveting and emotionally-charged essays on the Arab Spring, found in 'Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution,' readers may have trouble keeping track of chronology. Biographile is here to help, with some landmark dates to help pin the politically spirited stories to. (READ MORE)
Goodbye 2013. Hello change. If "write a hugely successful memoir, sell the rights to Hollywood, quit my job, and watch Julia Roberts/Diane Lane/Reese Witherspoon portray me on the big screen" is at the top of your resolutions for the coming year, consider starting your research here.(READ MORE)
Later in life, when historian Tony Judt became confined to a wheelchair due to Lou Gehrig's Disease, he told NPR, his death "won't mean anything to me. But it will mean a lot to them." And indeed, it does.(READ MORE)
James Carville’s and Mary Matalin’s joint autobiography will be excerpted in the January issue of Vogue; Kiss’s Paul Stanley will publish his memoir; Mark Obama Ndesandjo, with whom President Obama shares a father, has written a memoir; and Jonathan Herman has written a biopic about N.W.A.(READ MORE)
Claudia Alta Taylor, aka Lady Bird Johnson, was born in 1912, and would forever change the way Americans saw the First Lady of the United States.(READ MORE)
