Thomas Carlyle popularised the theory that the history of the world was but the biography of great men and that it was their genius and skill that won great men power. Many disagreed, including ...

Much has been written about the therapeutic effects of reading. Carmen Martin Gaite, for example, expressed her views on the subject in 1989. “Reading provides insight into a secret world that ...

On the literary genre spectrum, memoirs and autobiographies are right next to each other. They’re both nonfiction accounts of the author’s personal experience, usually written in first person (i.e.

MR MCPARTLIN: Hello, I’m Mr McPartlin, and today we’re checking out the similarities and differences between biographies and autobiographies. Biography and autobiography. These words might look and ...

Cocktails with Sartre and dark memories of Gaddafi … Kathryn Hughes explores extraordinary lives Vote: What was your favourite book of the year? Laura Cumming got the year off to a luminous start with ...

Science fiction author Robert A Heinlein once wrote: Autobiography is usually honest but never truthful. An autobiography is the story of a person’s life. It is different to a diary, which is usually ...

Can a Muslim write a biography and publish it? I am asking this as the Hadiths is a biography of our beloved prophet(sallallah alaihi wa sallam), and similarly any ...