The organization will share longlists across six genres in honor of its 50th anniversary Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

Thomas Carlyle popularised the theory that the history of the world was but the biography of great men and that it was their genius and skill that won great men power. Many disagreed, including ...

Biography and autobiography are the two traditional forms of literature that talk about the character and course of a person’s life. Tap to read about basic differences between both of them.

Much has been written about the therapeutic effects of reading. Carmen Martin Gaite, for example, expressed her views on the subject in 1989. “Reading provides insight into a secret world that ...

"In the mid-1990s, I almost wrote the biography of an archaeologist and the sub-story to it was that, during the Cold War, he was a 'sleeper' agent for the Soviets. So there was a secondary story. The ...

After savouring English and world literature for quite a while, I developed an interest in South Asian literature. This led me to study writers of this literary tradition. The latest in my list of ...

‘To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies,” Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig in 1936. “Biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were to be had, we could not ...

Can a Muslim write a biography and publish it? I am asking this as the Hadiths is a biography of our beloved prophet(sallallah alaihi wa sallam), and similarly any ...

In honor of the organization's 50th anniversary, the NBCC will announce six longlists across genres between Dec. 16 and Dec. 19 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she ...