As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a professor ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CRITICISM: LIFE STORIES Essays in Biography by Joseph Epstein (Axios Press) Essayist Joseph Epstein is a writer whose flaws are difficult to separate from ...

Epstein (former editor of American Scholar and author of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit) brings an erudite gift for portraiture to the subjects of this volume’s 40 essays. Focused primarily on figures ...

Four area students won a local essay competition, “2002 Biography of the Year National Scholarship Challenge,” conducted by Arts and Entertainment cable network and based on its “Biography” series.

More often than not I find myself both thoroughly annoyed with what Joseph Epstein is saying and happily amused by the way he is saying it. Essays in Biography, his latest collection, is no exception.