A Peek Inside the Publishing World of Biography GhostwritersImagine buying a riveting celebrity memoir. One filled with heartfelt and intimate details and a tear-inducing narrative, only to discover ...

Finding Beth's writing voice was one of the most crucial aspects of the project. The temptation, in the face of such a demanding deadline, could have been to revert to my own voice to save time ...

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 ...

Research into James Baldwin's archives reveals incisive details about the writer's personal relationships, both platonic and ...

How to Write a Bio on Tumblr. Readers who reach your company's Tumblr blog through a search or by seeing a reblog are likely to be interested in finding out more about who you are and what you ...

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.

A recruiter calls you and asks for your executive bio. You aren’t actively looking, but the desire to move on has been nagging at you. Plus, the role sounds intriguing. Unfortunately, no such ...

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… ...

"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 ...

The autobiography of former England and Gloucestershire cricketer David 'Syd' Lawrence has been described as one of "resilience and character". Written in collaboration with Dean Wilson, it was a race ...