Larry McMurtry on Crazy Horse
Edmund White on Marcel Proust · Peter Gay on Mozart
Garry Wills on Saint Augustine · Jonathan Spence on Mao Zedong
Edna O’Brien on James Joyce. Douglas Brinkley on Rosa Parks
Elizabeth Hardwick on Herman Melville
Louis Auchincloss on Woodrow Wilson
Mary Gordon on Joan of Arc
Sherwin Nuland on Leonardo da Vinci
Nigel Nicolson on Virginia Woolf
Carol Shields on Jane Austen. Karen Armstrong on the Buddha
R.W. B. Lewis on Dante. Patricia Bosworth on Marlon Brando
R.W. B. Lewis on Dante · Patricia Bosworth on Marlon Brando
Wayne Koestenbaum on Andy Warhol
Francine du Plessix Gray on Simone Weil
Janet Malcolm on Anton Chekhov
Marshall Frady on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jane Smiley on Charles Dickens
John Keegan on Winston Churchill · Roy Blount, Jr., on Robert E. Lee
David Quammen on Charles Darwin
Bobbie Ann Mason on Elvis Presley
Thomas Cahill on Pope John XXIII · James Gleick on Isaac Newton
Kathryn Harrison on Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Robert Remini on Joseph Smith · Paul Johnson on Napoleon
Hilton Als on James Baldwin
Ada Louise Huxtable on Frank Lloyd Wright
Thomas Keneally on Abraham Lincoln