Biography: General

The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited - and remade.Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historica...

Ralph Kiner (1922-2014) was one of the most feared power hitters of his era. Babe Ruth predicted Kiner would be the slugger most likely to break...

Yigal Allon was a major contributor to the nation building process of the State of Israel. He did so from multiple positions he held in government....

It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 grew the gulags and the police state of the Stalin...

The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, ...

Eleanor Nesbitt's introduction contextualises the life of Kailash Puri, Punjabi author and agony aunt, providing the story of the book itself and c...

One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Menno...

An intimate, compulsively readable account of the dynamics that have shapedand sometimes destroyedrelations at the top of the American political hi...

Dominick Dunne seemed to live his entire adult life in the public eye, but in this biography Robert Hofler reveals a conflicted, enigmatic man who ...

The Call of the World takes us on an unprecedented behind-the-scenes tour of defining moments in recent global history. Bill Graham Canadas minist...

 Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphias best black baseball team, a te...

Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male...