A Washington library revealed a biography of Henry Ford was recently returned to the facility nearly 64 years past its original due date.

Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the first drilling at Mount Rushmore, the iconic American landmark in South Dakota.

Seth Wickersham, author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," helps us understand why quarterbacks are among the toughest positions in sports.

Bill Sumio Naito, who died at age 70 in 1996, was a Portland-born son of Japanese immigrants who became one of the city’s most significant business and civic leaders. Erica Naito-Campbell, his ...

Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

The feminist thinker is celebrated as a prophet of empowerment and self-care. A new biography shows how she saw our future even more keenly. Lorde in 1983.Credit...Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Supported ...

She was surely the oddest Catholic author who ever lived. She went about London with her face powdered dead white, in vivid contrast to her natural carrot-colored hair, chopped off in front just above ...

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker, by Zachary Leader (Belknap Press, 464 pp., $35) Literary biography as a genre has sometimes suffered a lack of respect. Writers ...