When Phillis Wheatley published her debut collection of poems in 1773, she expressed her gratitude to the Countess of Huntingdon, to whom the young writer dedicated her book. In a letter to the ...

The moment that made a success of Alexander Masters's first book, Stuart: A Life Backwards, is described in its opening pages. Masters's homeless street raconteur, Stuart Shorter, tells his biographer ...

At first glance, Neil Baldwin seems an odd choice to write a biography of the great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. His academic training is in English, not history or technology. His two ...

Several years ago, Leander Kahney released a well-received biography of Jony Ive, outlining how the publicity-shy "genius behind Apple's greatest products" came to play such a prominent role at Apple.