Reads tagged with “biography”
The Outsider with the Public Voice: How Joan Didion Mirrored Us Back to Ourselves
“From the first, her work insisted that a single life contained the life of our times.”
Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: The Beloved Children’s Book Author’s Little-Known Scientific Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms
“Imagination is the precursor to policy, the precondition to action. Imagination, like wonder, allows us to value something.”
Peanuts and the Quiet Pain of Childhood: How Charles M. Schulz Made an Art of Difficult Emotions
“[Charlie Brown] reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be vulnerable, to be small and alone in the universe, to be human — both little and big at the same time.”
A Burst of Delight and Recognition: E.E. Cummings, the Art of Noticing, and the Spirit of Rebellion
“Cummings despised fear, and his life was lived in defiance of all who ruled by it.”
The Adulterous Society: How John Updike Made Suburban Sex Sexy
“There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.”
Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections
“In this great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.”
Roald Dahl on How Illness Emboldens Creativity: A Moving Letter to His Bedridden Mentor
“I doubt I would have written a line … unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.”
The Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2014
Nabokov’s love letters, Shackleton’s courageous journey, the unsung heroes behind creative icons, Joni Mitchell unbound, and more.
How Susan Sontag Possessed New York and Subverted Sexual Stereotypes
“Sontag seemed to exude an irresistible mixture of intelligence, hipness, sex, and beauty.”
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