The Best Books of 2020: Biography!
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The best accounts of the lives of artists, musicians, poets, and more in 2020.
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Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh
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The great Haitian revolutionary’s story is told in a boisterous new biography.
Read MoreMax Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters by Rosanna Warren
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One of the unsung founders of Modernism gets a superb new biography.
Read MorePhilip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
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Bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy tells the dual story of Philip of Macedon and his famous son.
Read MoreStalin by Ronald Grigor Suny
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A sweeping account of an idealistic young man transformed into a ruthless dictator.
Read MoreThe Last Brahmin by Luke A. Nichter
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An examination of the wide-ranging and varied political influence wielded by Henry Cabot Lodge.
Read MoreHeart Full of Rhythm by Ricky Riccardi
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A new book details a key transition in the career of the great Louis Armstrong.
Read MoreBradbury Beyond Apollo by Jonathan Eller
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Biographer Johnathan Eller concludes his massive biography of science fiction legend Ray Bradbury.
Read MoreAusten Years by Rachel Cohen
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A graceful and deeply introspective memoir written by a woman who reads and rereads Jane Austen to help her confront the changes occurring in her own life, and learns that her personal experiences give her a new lens to explore the meaning of Austen’s novels.
Read MoreBecoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir by Anonymous
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The charming memoir of a fictional character and her anonymous creator.
Read MoreThe Education of John Adams by R. B. Bernstein
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A new biography attempts to present a fully-rounded picture of America’s second President.
Read MoreCross of Snow by Nicholas Basbanes
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A bestselling author turns his attention to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the great American poet of the 19th century, now largely forgotten.
Read MoreThe Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
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While looking for the rooms of their own that Virginia Woolf argued all women writers needed, a group of female artists and scholars in early-1960s created their own Bloomsbury and prefigured the beginnings of second-wave feminism.
Read MoreMy Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
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A genre-bending work of an author researching Carson McCullers and finding herself.
Read MoreMen of Violence Take It By Force: Philippe Lancon’s “Disturbance”
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Journalist Philippe Lançon’s account of putting his life back together from the inside out.
Read MoreRadical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate
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Jonathan Bate writes about the young firebrand William Wordsworth.
Read MoreCalder: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years by Jed Perl
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The second volume in Jed Perl’s indispensable biography of Alexander Calder.
Read MoreFrom 2017: Calder: The Conquest of Time - the Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
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The first volume of Jed Perl’s landmark biography of Alexander Calder.
Read MoreThese Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann
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A new biography of Emily Dickinson—told in ten episodes which “tell it slant.”
Read MoreSquare Haunting by Francesca Wade
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At different times and in different phases of their careers, five women made the same square in London their home - a fascinating new book looks at their stories.
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