The new biography charts H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's rise from humble beginnings to global prominence ...

A Life by Dr Thomas Mathew offers readers an in-depth look at one of India's most iconic industrialists, Ratan Tata. This ...

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This biography of novelist Edna Ferber was written by her grandniece Julie Gilbert, who had access to Ferber's journals, ...

"GEORGE MASA: A LIFE REIMAGINED" by Janet McCue and Paul Bonesteel (Smokies Life, 320 pages, $29).

David Elmo Cooper, hailing from Brooklyn, New York, discovered his love of art, specifically comic books and graffiti, at a ...

Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and ...

Author: Judith Glyde recently retired as a professor of cello and chamber music in the College of Music at the University of ...

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