Articles with keyword "Biography"
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The Paradox of Biography
While some regard it as "the queen of the humanities," others dismiss it as "low-power history."
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A Conversation with James West
Novelist William Styron and his biographer James West talk with Endowment Chairman Sheldon Hackney about the writing life.
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A Conversation with William Styron
Novelist William Styron and his biographer James West talk with Endowment Chairman Sheldon Hackney about the writing life.
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A Writer's Writer
Katherine Anne Porter's lifetime of letters and manuscripts holds clues for scholars and writers alike.
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Margaret Sanger's "Deeds of Terrible Virtue"
A new film tells how Sanger broke taboos and paved the way for birth control reform.
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A Nation of Individuals
Scholar John A. Garraty talks about the creation of the new American National Biography.
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Celebrating Ernest Hemingway’s Century
Illinois and Idaho celebrate the life of the writer who made the declarative sentence a work of art.
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Richer Than Uncle Sam
J.P. Morgan biographer Jean Strouse talks with NEH Chairman William Ferris about the man who collected corporations and Old Masters with equal vigor.
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"Every Book is a New Journey"
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian talks with Chairman Bruce Cole about the delights of discovering history.
