T O D A Y THE STORIES OF A LIFETIME: Lives 'R' us By Joyce Millman A&E's "Biography" is the People magazine of famous lives The Art of Life By Jay Parini A renowned biographer discusses the biographies that have inspired, enthralled and moved him most Parini's list The best literary biographies of the century The Salon List Our favorite bios of the year - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - T A B L E+T A L K Sir Isaiah Berlin is dead. How much poorer are we without him? Discuss it in the Books section of Table Talk. R E V I E W S LOVE IN A BLUE TIME By Hanif Kureishi (11/19/97) R E C E N T L Y The Gospel according to Paul By Mark Hertsgaard (11/12/97) The Salon interview: Doris Lessing By Dwight Garner (11/11/97) The man who took sex out of the closet By Scott McLemee (11/05/97) Reckless genius By Galway Kinnell (11/03/97) Cents & sensibility By Gary Kamiya (10/31/97) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Browse the BOOKS ARCHIVE		T H E art O F_L I F E A RENOWNED BIOGRAPHER JAY PARINI LISTS THE LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES THAT HAVE INSPIRED, ENTHRALLED AND MOVED HIM MOST. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "James Joyce" By Richard Ellmann Oxford University Press "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" By Robert D. Richardson Jr. Univ. of California Press "Henry James" By Leon Edel (out of print) "Dickens" By Peter Ackroyd HarperPerennial (out of print) "Anthony Trollope" By Victoria Glendinning Knopf (out of print) Click on highlighted titles to order your copy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -