Elon Musk's biographer Seth Amramson who earlier questioned the Tesla CEO's mental health claimed on X, the social media platform that Musk owns, that Elon Musk's IQ is not as high as everyone thinks.

In 1987, Saul Bellow gave an interview about the controversial book The Closing of the American Mind by his friend Allan Bloom. During the conversation, Bellow delivered a now-infamous line that was ...

“We are all biographers from childhood,” writes Megan Marshall in “After Lives,” a short, incisive meditation on her career. We spend our lives, she claims, figuring out other people, hoping to learn ...

Blake Bailey is best known for his prize-winning biographies of great writers who were also destructive — and not just self-destructive — people. His books on John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles ...

As a literary biographer, Blake Bailey is a completist. His books on Richard Yates, John Cheever, and Charles Jackson are exhaustively researched, soup-to-nuts narratives—packed with what seems to be ...

When the biographer of Emanuel Teller came to see me, he left behind his hat. It was the kind of hat a gaucho would wear, flat on top, wide-brimmed, but without the strings that tie under the chin. It ...

Biographer Seth Abramson has raised alarms about the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s mental health, claiming that Elon Musk may be in a state of “growing madness” with dangerous implications for the public and ...

“For decades I had a two-inch stack of correspondence with Carl Rogers sitting in my file drawer,” writes Howard Kirschenbaum in the introduction to his latest book, “On Becoming Carl Rogers’ ...

With her latest novel, A.S. Byatt returns to some of the elements that made “Possession” a bestseller and Booker Prize winner in 1990: an attempt to unearth the secrets of a dead writer, a parody of ...

MY title may not seem inappropriate if we remember that the subject of any biography, except, perhaps, those written for campaign or advertising purposes, is helpless — as helpless as a criminal being ...