Read more biography stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/6438/biography.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:55:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72019/liz-taylor-the-first-paparazzi-magnet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagElizabeth Taylor, whose affair with Eddie Fisher was more scandalous than the Brad-Jen-Angelina triangle can ever hope to be, is “a pioneer for the Madonnas and Lindsay Lohans of today, women whose personal lives occupy more of the public imagination than does their creative work,” writes Laura Miller in Salon....http://www.newser.com/story/72019/liz-taylor-the-first-paparazzi-magnet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 10:10:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70643/at-heart-of-marilyns-fall-a-very-sick-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJ. Randy Taraborrelli’s new 541-page biography, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe , doesn’t really deliver on promises of “explosive,” “revelatory” discoveries—at least, “not to a Marilyn obsessive like myself,” writes Lori Leibovich for DoubleX. “Instead, there is the deepening of the much more ordinary tragedy that continues to fascinate”—...http://www.newser.com/story/70643/at-heart-of-marilyns-fall-a-very-sick-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 12:21:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66459/tomb-may-hold-key-to-shakespeare.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 17th-century tomb might hold the key to the enduring mystery of William Shakespeare's identity, the Daily Telegraph reports, and researchers are hoping to take a peek inside. A scan found that the ornate sarcophagus, built at an English church by Shakespeare contemporary and fellow scribe Fulke Greville, contains three...http://www.newser.com/story/66459/tomb-may-hold-key-to-shakespeare.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Aug 2009 13:27:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66226/new-book-reveals-queen-mums-secret-interviews.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Queen Mum, Queen Elizabeth II's mother, gave just one interview at age 22 and guarded her privacy the rest of her long life. But a new official biography, published next month, draws on hours of interviews she secretly gave to a school headmaster. As the Telegraph reports, the book...http://www.newser.com/story/66226/new-book-reveals-queen-mums-secret-interviews.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 5:39:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63679/jackie-told-docs-to-pull-plug-on-lover-rfk-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJacqueline Kennedy’s four-year love affair with RFK was so intense that it was she, rather than his wife, who made the decision to turn off his life support after he was shot, according to Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, which hits shelves this month. The New York Post got...http://www.newser.com/story/63679/jackie-told-docs-to-pull-plug-on-lover-rfk-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Jul 2009 11:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63122/we-were-just-pawns-lynndie-england.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLynndie England is trying to rebuild some semblance of a normal life, but her past continues to haunt her, she tells the AP. “It’s my face that's always recognized,” the former Army Reservist and poster child for Abu Ghraib abuse said of trying to get a job—or even just...http://www.newser.com/story/63122/we-were-just-pawns-lynndie-england.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 14:06:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62802/jackie-bobby-had-affair-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJackie Kennedy turned to the arms of brother-in-law Bobby after John F. Kennedy’s assassination—or so a Kennedy biographer claims in Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story , out July 14. C. David Heymann alluded to such claims in two previous books, the New York Daily News reports, but Kennedy insiders...http://www.newser.com/story/62802/jackie-bobby-had-affair-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 25 Jun 2009 8:25:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59451/words-failed-kennedy-on-chappaquiddick.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThough he longed to tell Mary Jo Kopechne’s parents about the 1969 accident that killed their daughter, Ted Kennedy couldn’t find the words on two occasions when he invited them into his home, a new book on the senator says. “When the time came, after plenty of small talk, he...http://www.newser.com/story/59451/words-failed-kennedy-on-chappaquiddick.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 19 May 2009 11:06:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58427/bio-details-swayzes-cancer-fight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPatrick Swayze’s first inkling that something was wrong came while sipping champagne on New Year’s Eve 2007, reports the New York Daily News . “It was like acid on an open wound,” he recalls in a new biography out Tuesday. At the end of January 2008, after dropping 20 pounds, he...http://www.newser.com/story/58427/bio-details-swayzes-cancer-fight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 08 May 2009 9:56:41 CDT