In one of the more intriguing matchups we’ve seen this year, controversial Washington Post journalist Richard Cohen will write a biography on … Nora Ephron. We look forward to a read as unusual as the friendship between these two -- one that started badly when she took him to task for something he’d written about her, then flourished when she married his close friend. Ephron’s family has sanctioned Cohen’s project, making it not only a likely unorthodox take, but also an official one. [via Vulture]

Famed biographer Hermione Lee -- who has written the life stories of people like Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather -- will write a biography of playwright Tom Stoppard, to be published by Faber. This latest project, which Lee calls “an extraordinary joy and privilege,” and that has been just as well received by the the subject himself, is Lee’s first coverage of a living person. [via The Bookseller]

The musical artist known as Prince is the subject of a new graphic biography. Fame Prince is the work of author Michael Frizell and artist Ernesto Lovera, who has also created a collectible cover. No matter how old you were when you first heard Prince, Frizell’s take is likely to transport you back to Prince’s eighties beginnings: "Writing [this book] was like reliving my teenage years. To this day, his music speaks to me,” he says. [via Insight News]

Bill Watterson, creator of cult comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, will be the subject of a new biopic by Warner Brothers, with a guest star producer. Leonardo DiCaprio will co-produce the still unnamed film on the famously reclusive comics artist’s life -- which will be based on a screenplay by Dan Dollar. No casting decisions have been made yet. [via Philly]