Then check out this gallery for some famous books that were published after their authors passed away.

According to some religious traditions, the Bible is the word of God. But who actually wrote it? The answer: a number of ...

The Vietnam War inspired enduring literature, from both sides of the world. Even before the war, U.S designs on Southeast ...

In an era where personal branding has become a widespread obsession, Gala’s life story is emblematic of the heights to which ...

Susan Page's best-selling biography of Barbara Walters, The Rulebreaker, is now out in paperback. Below, USA Today's ...

Austen Ivereigh is a British writer and journalist known for his two biographies of Pope Francis, as well a bestselling book written in collaboration ...

A forthcoming biography from US journalist Timothy M. Gay aims to explore Rory Land, the weird and wonderful world inhabited ...

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

The Titanic's sinking claimed over 1,500 lives. There were well-known people among the casualties.

That Oscar went missing, with no one knowing for sure how long, before reappearing in a Mission District pawn shop window. The widely celebrated local writer who first won it had reportedly used it as ...

The earliest known manuscript of the entire book of Isaiah has been discovered in palatine, it was announced today by Prof. Millar Burrows of Yale University, director of the American School of ...

The book is a collection of four short intellectual biographies of people who covered virgin ground but faded into obscurity. The challenge was to resurrect these four with little in common other than ...