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Biographer Bill Zehme died before completing his magnum opus, ‘Carson the Magnificent.’ Then his former research assistant ...

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Abby Reinhard is a writer, editor, and native Jersey Girl. Before Best Life, she was working in medical writing, ...

Thompson writes movingly of more than one “enormous web of interconnected people” in the Delta, and of the ongoing fight to ...

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Thanks to a gamut of brilliant biographies and memoirs by and about some amazing women, we’ve definitely got some titles to get you excited about reading. There have been hundreds of books ...

The pioneering late-night show host lived a troubled life behind closed doors, revealed in "Carson the Magnificent" ...

The new biography “Carson the Magnificent” written by Bill Zehme (who finished the book before he died in 2023) with Mike Thomas examines how the famous late-night host behaved around his spouses, ...

Tubman is famous as the “Moses of her People” who piloted scores ... the epitome of American grit and courage. In biographies and children’s books, she towers as the heroine of the ...

Tucked away in the medieval manuscripts of the works of Lucian, the scintillating Greco-Syrian satirist of the second century ...

Pizza Hut’s Book It! literacy program, founded in 1984, has reached more than 70 million students — and counts the radio host Charlamagne Tha God among its fans. Thousands of people ...