Helen Croydon is an author and former journalist who now specializes in personal branding. She is founder of Thought Leadership PR agency. When putting yourself forward for media opportunities, ...

Biographical writing constitutes a category of literary engagements that are explored in academia because they are helpful in revealing the network of events that make up the human world. As a genre ...

Anyone writing a biography needs to find meaning and purpose in what they are doing, said Roger C. Flick in his class about writing biographies for pioneer ancestors. The class 'Guidelines for Writing ...

If you had to write your professional biography, what would it include? How would you describe your role? What have you accomplished? What sets you apart? Whether you are writing for yourself or a ...

Today's episode is a little different. NPR's David Folkenflik sits down with two writers – Walter Isaacson and Michael Lewis – to ask about their experiences writing biographies of Elon Musk and Sam ...

Below left: Berg holds a photograph of Wilson used in his 1910 campaign for governor of New Jersey. Although he has been researching and thinking about Wilson for 35 years, he hasn't yet reached a ...

Several years ago, Oxford professor and Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate decided to write a biography of the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Initially it seemed he had the support of Hughes’ widow, ...