Essays by a writer of literary lives meditate on the obsessions and obstacles endemic to her trade.

Author Dan Nadel's book takes a microscope to Robert Crumb, the idiosyncratic creator of Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural.

Commissioned by Sid and Anne Bass and designed by architect Paul Rudolph, the Fort Worth residence is a dramatic composition ...

"Cavalcade" at 6 p.m. welcomes author David Sheff, presenting his new biography Yoko. David joins at 7 p.m. to offer a glimpse into the Yoko Ono we don't know, and to tell the tall tales anew.

The book is both a comedy and a catalog of the worst time of my life, and so the promotion of it has felt similarly ...

Anne and Claire Berest wrote “Gabriële” to better understand their great-grandmother and her husband, the French painter ...

Biographer David Sheff first met John Lennon and Yoko Ono shortly before Lennon was murdered in 1981, and has remained ...

Robert Crumb is to comics what Louis Armsrong is to jazz, a revolutionary who pulled a maligned and misunderstood art form out of the shadows. In the forward to his new biography, “Crumb: ...

Salvador Dalí’s wife played many roles: muse, model, defender, business manager and artistic collaborator.

A Cartoonist’s Life” takes on the good, the bad, the ugly and the weird. Over punk rock vegetarian food, subject and writer ...

Mr. Nadel wrote the biography with the artist’s participation, but not his final approval. As such, the author recounts, with impressive clarity, the complicated web of Mr. Crumb’s life: among its ...

In his book excerpt we meet the comics legend in his childhood, as his explores his obsession with cartooning, and a new ...