New novel captures a legendary bluesman at an early midlife crossroads, well before the myth — that he sold his soul to the ...

Because the genre of blues music is so old and dates back even before vinyl records and other recording means, there remains a significant amount of mystery regarding its early years. Born in the ...

Robert Wood Johnson IV, known as "Woody," was ambassador ... being asked to sit for an interview with a person writing a biography of Dan Snyder, then the owner of the team that is now the ...

Robert Caro’s definitive book on urban planner Robert Moses blends prodigious research, keen reporting and novelistic ...

Former Labour PM Tony Blair’s entry descibes him as having ‘enormous charisma, arguably the finest opposition leader of ...

This story is a personal one. In January, I completed a decade of service on the Board of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, America's largest philanthropy devoted to health. While many Americans ...

In her poem “Break Your Face,” Vongsay writes, “If my ancestors taught me anything / It is that fire creates new life / An ...

Robert Burke is running against incumbent Stephen Lynch to represent Massachusetts District 8 in the U.S. House of ...

Image Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker ... his sense of urgency about completing the final volume of his biography on Lyndon B. Johnson and why he had changed his mind about issuing an ...

Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" was published 50 years ago this month. We meet the author, and learn why he delves so deep in his research.

The UK government has commissioned pen portraits of ex-PMs dating back to Robert Walpole. But Mr Johnson’s entry remains ... the disgraced politician’s biography would be “impossible to ...