It was like doing another college degree, but you’re majoring in Judy Blume,” Mark Oppenheimer (here in his Connecticut home) says of his extensive research.Credit...Jillian Freyer for The New York ...

Between the secret abortions and the "smutty" adult novels her friends begged her to hide, the new biography "Judy Blume: A Life" feels as illicit as snooping through your mother’s nightstand.

Few writers have shaped the inner lives of young readers as profoundly as Judy Blume. Since the early 1970s, the beloved author of classic books like Forever and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret ...

Just in time for the country’s 250th birthday, “Being Thomas Jefferson” promises “an intimate history” of the primary author ...

NEW YORK — A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize.

Sanju Viswanath Samson (born Sanju Samson on 11 November 1994, Pulluvila, Vizhinjam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) is a wicket-keeper of the Indian cricket team with the right hand. A king of the ...

If you already know who Terence McKenna was, no selling is necessary. If you don't, this is the place to start. Though if you're reading Boing Boing, chances are you already do. Twenty-five years ...

Hanna Reitsch is definitely among Germany's most famous female pilots. During her lifetime she has flown in nearly every (German) aircraft conceivable, setting many records along the way. Yet her ...

Nathan Morley spoke with Crux Now about his forthcoming biography of cinema legend Kenneth More, who portrayed G.K. Chesterton’s beloved Father Brown.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the real-life couple behind I Love Lucy, captivated audiences with their on-screen chemistry.

The definitive biography of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr’s mythologized relationship is back on bestseller ...

It might have been the most cultured house-share of the 20th century. In 1940, WH Auden was living in Brooklyn Heights in a ...