How Ian Fleming Birthed James Bond

With 'Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,' writer Nicholas Shakespeare has adroitly written the first authorized biography of the man who created the world's most famous fictional spy.

George Orwell Biography Magnifies His Errors And Misses The Man Behind Them

D.J. Taylor's latest biography, Orwell: A New Life, doesn't seem to grasp that the famed writer's intellectual contradictions weren't necessarily character defects.

New Biography Reveals Elon Musk Might Just Be Crazy Enough To Change The World

'Physics does not care about hurt feelings. It cares about whether you got the rocket right,' Musk told Walter Isaacson in his new biography.

Obama Once Wrote To Ex-Girlfriend That He ‘Repeatedly Fantasizes About Making Love To Men,’ Biographer Says

'Repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men'

Biography Chronicles America’s Greatest And Most Volatile Crime Writer

Steven Powell has written a worthy, if at times too deferential, biography of the enigmatic and opinionated author James Ellroy.

How Integrity And Restraint Made Cleveland One Of America’s Greatest Presidents

In his new biography of Grover Cleveland, 'A Man of Iron,' Troy Senik makes the case that Cleveland's fealty to the Constitution in a turbulent era is sorely underappreciated.

‘Renegades And Rogues’ Misses The Mark On Conan’s Creator

Much of Howard’s "magic" came from his ability to create emotional sincerity through the hatreds and bloodlust of characters like Conan the Barbarian.