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Biography

  1. book review
    Kathy Acker Wanted EverythingEat Your Mind, a new biography of the writer and punk feminist icon, is both maddening and compulsively readable.
    By Sarah Chihaya
  2. book review
    Mum’s the Word: Elizabeth Remains a Cipher in New Biography The Queen: Her LifeAuthor Andrew Morton doesn’t even try to pin his subject down, offering instead Wikipedia-deep chronologies and press-release prose.
    By Hillary Kelly
  3. in memoriam
    How Mary Oliver’s Biographer Finally Met the Legendary PoetOliver, who died yesterday, connected with people “on the page,” and Lindsay Whalen was no exception.
    By Lindsay Whalen
  4. How Jann Wenner Built His Boomer EmpireWenner said he started Rolling Stone to meet John Lennon; just as much, he wanted to be Lennon. He came as close as any magazine editor could.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  5. 7 Things You Learn About Meryl Streep From Her Biography Her AgainShe performed an abortion on herself for a “death scene” exercise at Yale.
    By E. Alex Jung
  6. vulture lists
    The 13 Best Parts of the New Joan Didion Biography, The Last Love SongNever go to a party with Warren Beatty, among other things.
    By Genevieve Smith