biography

"I am so lucky that Crown Prince Haakon is the one who will carry this forward," King Harald wrote of his son in his biography The King Tells.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

As Dolly Parton celebrates her 80th birthday and a new “Dolly Parton Day,” a new biography by Martha Ackmann looks back at the star’s rise from poverty to philanthropy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Journalist Michael Crick, who wrote a 2022 biography of the Reform leader, agrees.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

As Chris Salewicz relates in his 2009 biography, “Bob Marley: The Untold Story,” London promoters had been skeptical that the band could fill the 4,000-seat Hammersmith Odeon for even one night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The only religious book I had in my collection was the Landmark biography Jesus of Nazareth.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

As well as "Succession", the five-times married tycoon has been the subject of a spate of biographies, as well as a new Netflix documentary, "Dynasty: The Murdochs" which was released in March this year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

There is also a focus on the lives of the slaves who lived and worked at Mount Vernon, with artifacts such as farm tools and cookware as well as biographies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

He published a number of autobiographical books, as well as biographies of John Wesley and William and Catherine Booth, the founders of the Salvation Army.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

She came home from the Welch public library every week or two with a pillowcase full of novels, biographies, and histories.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls