The moment that made a success of Alexander Masters's first book, Stuart: A Life Backwards, is described in its opening pages. Masters's homeless street raconteur, Stuart Shorter, tells his biographer ...
When Phillis Wheatley published her debut collection of poems in 1773, she expressed her gratitude to the Countess of Huntingdon, to whom the young writer dedicated her book. In a letter to the ...
At first glance, Neil Baldwin seems an odd choice to write a biography of the great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. His academic training is in English, not history or technology. His two ...
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