biography

“The Secret Life of a Cemetery” can be read as a memoir of the author, but it may be more accurately understood as a biography of Père-Lachaise—a place of rich history, lore and misunderstanding.

Yet one version of biography kept drawing him back.

Mr. Orr, a professor of political science at Brown University, provides a rewarding portrait of Diggs’s career as a civil-rights activist and legislator in his exhaustively researched biography, “House of Diggs.”

He published a biography in 2014, released in the UK as The Unstoppable Keeper, and was described by Four Four Two magazine as the "craziest man in football".

I first encountered his name, in fact, in a 1970s biography of the Irish revolutionary Liam Mellows by Marxist historian Desmond Greaves, who mentions Hillquit several times without bothering to explain who he was.