Jackie Gleason was a TV superstar, but he never won an Emmy. And he never got over that snub. It drove him, in fact, to win a Tony on Broadway, an Oscar nomination in the movies, and a place amid the ...

The feminist thinker is celebrated as a prophet of empowerment and self-care. A new biography shows how she saw our future even more keenly. Lorde in 1983.Credit...Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Supported ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

The difficulties Rigg experienced wriggling out from under the shadow of ‘The Avengers’ are reflected in the Peel-based structure of the book, to wit: ‘Before,’ ‘During,’ ‘After,’ and ‘Forever After.’ ...