(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.

Recent criticism of the biographical genre misreads the “aesthetic measure of biography,” argues Kenneth Silverman, a professor emeritus of English at New York University and the author of three ...

In a 1969 essay, Elizabeth Hardwick described the worst kind of literary biography: the overstuffed, underthought tome whose claim to authority rests solely upon the accumulation of facts. In such ...

In his review of my book The Enemy ("Down on Law," April/May 2001), William Scheuerman takes issue with my biographical approach to Carl Schmitt's work, my interpretation of Schmitt's legal and ...

In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

Katherine Kurz Burton was a twentieth-century Catholic laywoman, popular biographer and periodical columnist. Although she was well-known and widely read in her day, she has been largely forgotten in ...

JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, founded in 1971 as The Journal of Narrative Technique (JNT), is a refereed, international journal published three times a year by the Department of English at Eastern ...

Conflicting opinions of the legacy of activist Judi Bari spilled out Monday at a Sebastopol bookstore as the author of a new biography explained and defended her work. About 45 people turned out to ...