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Biographies

"Isadora: A Sensational Life" An excerpt from the new biography of dancer Isadora Duncan.
By Peter Kurth [11/12/01]

Death to hagiographers! The new wave in sports biography, including the latest revisionist look at Muhammad Ali, is to trash the once-hallowed subject.
By Allen Barra [06/27/01]

Suffer the little children Robert Pine was a man until age 64, when he became Rebecca. It started when he was a young boy, and loved his sister's underwear.
By Reg McKay [03/28/01]

The Marquis de Sade at La Coste The writer's idyllic estate in Provence was where he created some of his most shocking work.
By Francine du Plessix Gray [12/07/00]

"Bellow" by James Atlas The long-awaited chronicle of the Nobel laureate's path from bootlegger's son to literary boychik to cranky old man shows why Saul Bellow has many admirers but few friends.
By Edward Neuert [12/06/00]

"Niccolò's Smile" by Maurizio Viroli Far from power mad, Machiavelli was a humane and principled man who never caught a break, according to a flattering new biography.
By Minna Proctor [11/22/00]

"Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet" by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick The honorable psychic who silenced skeptics, predicted both world wars and cured illnesses barely made a dime off his bizarre talents.
By Katharine Whittemore [09/26/00]

Nixon revisited Anthony Summers' Nixon biography is filled with charges of drug and domestic abuse, but it also sheds light on the final days of the Nixon presidency.
By Joshua Micah Marshall [09/01/00]

"Herman Melville" by Elizabeth Hardwick A great critic takes on a great novelist, finding agony, homoeroticism and, ultimately, mystery.
By Maria Russo [07/26/00]

"The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst" by David Nasaw A mammoth new biography of the first media mogul, a power-hungry millionaire who horse-traded editorial policy and didn't care who knew.
By Michael Scott Moore [06/06/00]

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