A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write About George Washington Alexis Coe’s cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches Karin Wulf - History ...

The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural ...

The National Book Foundation announced the list of nominees for the 2022 National Book Award and a biography of the late George Floyd was among the contesters for nonfiction a little over two ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow about his new book, "Mark Twain," in which he illuminates the complex life of the writer.

Finalists for the 2023 George Washington Book Prize discussed their books on the founding era. The George Washington Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American ...

“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

George Washington used the light of this brass candle stand while laboring over his farewell address in 1796. Richard Strauss / NMAH George Washington was a man of many talents. Writing speeches ...

The author of a new biography of poet Phillis Wheatley has received a $50,000 history award.

Miranda was inspired to create the musical after reading Chernow’s 2004 biography, Alexander Hamilton, which won the George Washington Book Prize. In 2011, Chernow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ...

Bill O’Reilly’s 19th best seller “Confronting the Presidents.” will be published Sept. 10. It’s delicious BS from G. Washington’s wooden teeth to whatever’s left of anything Joe ...