Lynn Barber

The Japanese artist suffered her fair share of fame, grief and misfortune

Mia Farrow doesn’t even appear until page 313 of Patrick McGilligan’s latest film biography

In Tom Baldwin’s biography, the leader comes across as compassionate and hard-working, but so ill at ease in front of the cameras

He died almost forgotten. Yet he established a system of taxonomy that we still use two centuries later

The World According to Joan Didion is an example of a regrettable new trend — the solipsistic biography