‘To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies,” Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig in 1936. “Biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were to be had, we could not ...

Much has been written about the therapeutic effects of reading. Carmen Martin Gaite, for example, expressed her views on the subject in 1989. “Reading provides insight into a secret world that ...

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1924. 8vo. 2 vols. $10.00. THOSE who read the considerable portions of Mark Twain’s Autobiography published in the North American Review a number of years ago will look ...

Washington DC [US], March 28 (ANI): Author Arundhati Roy's book 'Mother Mary Comes To Me' has won the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography on Saturday. The National Book Critics ...

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1920. 8vo, xiv+385 pp. Illustrated. $6.00. DR. HOLMES’S familiar parable of the Three Johns may be applied with great aptness to the whole art of biography.