Biography: Arts & Entertainment

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

A sober memoir that provides a solid understanding of how crime is situated in structural, cultural, historical, and situational contexts. This is ...

For a decade Wallace Reid was the most recognized face in Hollywood, the most universally beloved actor in silent film. Today all that is widely...

Richard Hayward was one of Irelands best-loved cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century. A popular Irish travel writer, actor and singer, he l...

Bruce Dickinson is the mighty voice behind legendary heavy metal behemoths Iron Maiden, and many more things besides. A world-class fencer, veteran...

Richard Hayward was one of Irelands best-loved cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century. A popular Irish travel writer, actor and singer, he l...

Nevill Johnson is better known as a painter and photographer than as a writer. Eoin O'Brien, close friend of Nevill Johnson and literary executor o...

At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages. R...

As stubborn as she was gifted, as fierce as she was tender, and notorious for her mannish dress that was provocative and chic in equal measure, Glu...

Nora Summers was responsible for some of the iconic images of Wales'' most famous bard Dylan Thomas, but the inmost details of her life, bucolic an...

Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will likely come to experiencing and exploring the legends abandoned autobiography. Collecting and p...

'Explodes in to life from the opening paragraph' RECORD COLLECTORThink you know the story of Jim Morrison and The Doors? This revelatory and explos...

Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was one of the most popular and beloved stars of the American silent screen. Remembered primarily as a comedienne in such...

September 12, 1910: The world premiere of Gustav Mahlers Eighth Symphony and the artistic breakthrough for which the composer had yearned all his l...

Who isn''t in awe of Vanessa Redgrave? Her career on stage and screen remains vital and her extreme-left political stands are still quite controver...

He was the quiet Beatle only in that he was standing alongside two louder-than-life characters and in front of a guy playing drums. He held many st...