Award-winning author C.J. Cook shares his process for writing multiple award-winning biographies of artists, along with three tips for your own writing.

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A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian, racial prejudice kept ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided ...

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Errol Musk hopes to raise as much as $200 million for a planned for-profit think tank using proceeds from the cryptocurrency.

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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The ...