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Category: biography
Q&A with the author of EDMUND J. JAMES AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, 1904-1920
J. David Hoeveler, co-author of Edmund J. James and the Making of the Modern University of Illinois, 1904-1920, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to […]
Q&A with the author of THE DALEY SHOW
Forrest Claypool, author of The Daley Show: Inside the Transformative Reign of Chicago’s Richard M. Daley, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Q&A with the author of JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH
Matthew Bowman, author of Joseph Fielding Smith: A Mormon Theologian, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? In part because it needed […]
Q&A with the author of WHEN FRIENDS COME FROM AFAR
Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago’s Chinese American Service League, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did […]
Free E-book Giveaway: ON THE BUS WITH BILL MONROE
September’s free e-book is here! Check out On the Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass by Mark Hembree before the month is over! […]
Q&A with the author of INK
Clifford R. Murphy, the author of Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I felt that […]
Q&A with the authors of PLAYING THE CHANGES
Darius Brubeck and Catherine Brubeck, the author of Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road, answers questions on their new book. Q: Why did you […]
Q&A with the author of WAIKIKI DREAMS
Patrick Moser, the author of Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I wanted […]
Q&A with the author of THE WORLD GOT AWAY
Mikel Rouse, the author of The World Got Away: A Memoir, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? To set the record […]
Q&A with the editor of OUT OF LEFT FIELD
Aram Goudsouzian, the editor and introducer of Out of Left Field: A Sportswriter’s Last Word by Stan Isaacs, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to […]
2024 National Biographer’s Day Reading List
National Biographer’s Day commemorates the anniversary of the first meeting of Samuel Johnson, an English writer, and his biographer James Boswell in London, England on May 16, 1763. In celebration, […]