Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “No species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more ...

Epstein (former editor of American Scholar and author of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit) brings an erudite gift for portraiture to the subjects of this volume’s 40 essays. Focused primarily on figures ...

As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a professor ...

Max Beerbohm once observed there were some writers who have been spoiled by their desire to do “important” work: “Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls.

ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY By Joseph Epstein Axios Press, $24, 603 pages, illustrated Joseph Epstein may be the dean of contemporary essayists. In some 22 books — none of them featuring car chases or bedroom ...

Thomas Carlyle popularised the theory that the history of the world was but the biography of great men and that it was their genius and skill that won great men power. Many disagreed, including ...

1. Mikulʹas Teich: a biographical sketch -- Questions of History 2. Business history: Cinderella, Prince Charming or ugly sister? / Terry Gourvish -- 3. Darwin's revolution / Robert Proctor -- 4. The ...