Fresh off of her record-setting turn in Rio, Simone Biles has made public appearances, is raking in the endorsements, and is now set to tell her life story in an upcoming autobiography.

The biography is called "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life,” and the author is Carol Sklenicka. Carol, we hear so much about American – great American authors being troubled by alcohol.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu has been reading a biography, and he hasn't liked what he's read. So much so, that if a biographer comes to his door, Codrescu won't be answering.

Some writers divide their life story over several books. For example, the writer Maya Angelou wrote her autobiography over a series of volumes, with the first book dealing with her early life. The end ...

"I'm writing a biography," the famed actor and director told People magazine."It's a weird process." "I realized how I'm blessed with one thing. Maybe it's my actor’s brain. I do have quite a ...

William Maxwell: A Literary Life By Barbara Burkhardt University of Illinois Press, 308 pages, $34.95 Literary biographies are an odd genre, a sort of primary secondary text, and literary biographe… ...