Plutarch’s portrayal of parallel lives is the paradigm James Grant pursues in his dynamic dual biography of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, two politicians and orators of markedly different ...

The film "Literature Appreciation: How To Read Biographies" explores the significance of autobiographies and biographies throughout history. It highlights early examples, such as the inscriptions of ...

Bard College classicist James Romm, author of memorably good books such as Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight ...

On inauguration day in January, the 45th president-elect of the United States arrived at the White House in a cavalcade of black cars, stepped from his armoured limousine, strode up the stairs, and ...

Toronto-based author Rosemary Sullivan is the first Canadian to win the American Plutarch Award for Biography, for Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva ...

This year’s winner of the Plutarch Award for best biography is Linda Leavell’s “Holding on Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Biographers International ...

Toronto-based author Rosemary Sullivan is the first Canadian to win the American Plutarch Award for Biography, for Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva ...