Biography: Arts & Entertainment

King Baggot began in films in 1909, was a major star from 1910 to 1916, and gained renown as a director in the 1920s and as a character actor in...

The examination of 1950s film clowns suggestions this decade was the 20th century's most volatile for the genre. Besides McCarthyism and TV and the...

This is the first full-length biography of Dorothy Morland (190699), to date the only female director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) i...

The First Lady of Show Business and the Last of the Red Hot Mamas, Sophie Tucker was a star in vaudeville, radio, film, and television. A gutsy, so...

Vincent van Gogh's short, passionate life was driven by an almost unimaginable creative energy that eventually overwhelmed him. The outlines of his...

John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made...

In the book My Grandfather, Artem Erkomaishvili, the musical biography of the great Georgian singer-chanter Artem Erkomaishvili is described. He wa...

Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were one of the top bands in Liverpool between 1959 and 1962, bigger even than The Beatles. They shared the bill with...