Super genius Stephen Hawking was a lazy kid who “didn’t study much,” his dad said in a new biography. “We are a little worried at the way Stephen is turning out. He hangs round the house with little ...

The moment that made a success of Alexander Masters's first book, Stuart: A Life Backwards, is described in its opening pages. Masters's homeless street raconteur, Stuart Shorter, tells his biographer ...

When Phillis Wheatley published her debut collection of poems in 1773, she expressed her gratitude to the Countess of Huntingdon, to whom the young writer dedicated her book. In a letter to the ...

At first glance, Neil Baldwin seems an odd choice to write a biography of the great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. His academic training is in English, not history or technology. His two ...

532 pages. $27.50. Not only does James Gleick think Richard Feynman was a genius, he thinks he “was the most brilliant, iconoclastic, and influential physicist of modern times.” Considering the ...