Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Juliet (Clara Rugaard) falls for Romeo (Jamie Ward) in a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic romance co-starring Rebel ...

Richard Ellmann’s “James Joyce” is widely regarded as the greatest literary biography of the 20th century, much as some see ...

And yet, as Eric Marshall White persuasively argues in his admirable new biography of Gutenberg, such methods did not and ...

Here we commemorate the legendary actor Irrfan Khan on his death anniversary by reminiscing some of his performances ...

In an updated version of Lord Ashcroft's biography, titled Red Flag, Rayner was only talked out of walking out of the Cabinet ...

LONDON — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to $6 million at auction next month. Sotheby’s auction house announced the sale ...

Mark Twain, however, said Shakespeare’s biography “is built up of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures — an Eiffel Tower of artificialities.” Six years ago, an American critic ...

When our train arrived at Stratford station, it was still early in the morning. About 150 kilometers northwest of London, in ...

Lucy Worsley’s A Very Elusive Woman -- a fascinating biography of Christie -- reveals much about the author at her desk and in her home ...