Biography: Arts & Entertainment

Dont Look Back, a documentary film of Bob Dylan''s 1965 England tour, is recognised as a landmark work in the field of documentary film-making, con...

From the creator of Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Biography and Neverland: The Michael Jackson Graphic comes the small format edition of an explosive g...

The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreb...

Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life tells the story of the life, loves and work of Leonard Cohen, the poet, songwriter and singer 'born with the gift ...

Mahler's life was a remarkably complex one, his success as a conductor continually overshadowed by his craving for recognition as a composer. Recog...

Arguably the greatest of all piano virtuosi, Liszt was one of the few composers of his day who had the technique to perform his own compositions. A...

The incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.George Soros is well known as the legendary specu...

A major source for the BBC drama The ReckoningWinner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Pr...

David Robertson charts W. C. Handy's rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of t...

Groucho Marx's career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of cont...

Broadway actress Billie Burke was one of the most sought after young stage beauties of her time, stealing the hearts of Enrico Caruso, Mark Twai...

Perry Como put aside his career as a barber to become one of the top American crooners of the 20th century and also one of the first multimedia ...

Whistler was one of the most original, if also tirelessly self-promoting artists of the later 19th century. After his disastrous run-in with John R...