Editor's Note: Sam Toperoff's new novel Lillian and Dash reimagines the shared love and labors between famed crime novelist Dashiell Hammett and the equally acclaimed playwright Lillian Hellman. Here, Sam sheds light on the real life literary figures that inspired his fast-paced, high-spirited counterfactual...(READ MORE)
Novelist Kate Christensen, whose books include The Great Man and The Astral, turns her hand to memoir in this month’s Blue Plate Special, an unforgettable coming-of-age story about love, loss, and food. (READ MORE)
The influence of Franz Kafka, born 130 years ago this week (July 3, 1883) in Prague, is most profound on the literary output of Gabriel García Márquez, who cites The Metamorphosis as inspiring his vocation.(READ MORE)
Biographile sat down with the author of The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden age of Hijacking to learn more about how he unraveled the many mysteries embedded throughout this complex tale of romance among the runways and radicals of the 1970s.(READ MORE)
Phillip Lopate, who began as a novelist and poet, has grown into the foremost American source of perspective and wisdom on the subject of autobiographical writing. Earlier this year, Lopate published To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, a conversational guide incorporating the tips and...(READ MORE)
In her biography, The Baroness, the author sets out to discover the truth about her great-aunt Pannonica, 'the rebellious Rothschild,' nicknamed Nica -- a child of stifling wealth and luxury who abandoned her former life and family when she became captivated by the music of Thelonious Monk. In her later...(READ MORE)
In celebration of the annual AWP conference, Biographile pulled together some of our favorite books on writing by writers. (READ MORE)
In 2007, author Lawrence Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book 'The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.' Here, Wright sits down with Biographile to discuss the making of his newest work, 'Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief.'(READ MORE)
The author of ‘An Unquenchable Thirst’ reflects on the difficulties of letting go of the selflessness of nunhood to the self-reflection of memoir. (READ MORE)
Lately we've been thinking a lot about literary influence, whether in relation to Geoff Dyer's D.H. Lawrence obsession or Graham Greene's haunting of Pico Iyer. Like apprentices of any trade, writers learn theory and craft from those who came before. As serious as that business can be, we can't help...(READ MORE)
