Admissions officers don’t have time to read your autobiography, so they ask you to keep your personal statement brief. Most law schools limit you to two double-spaced pages, although some allow three ...

When reflecting on your experiences, ask yourself: What did I learn ... If applying to PA programs: The autobiographical essay Prompt: The autobiographical essay should be an account of the ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Though born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lutz wields the English language like a polymath émigré—Nabokov if Nabokov ...

The multi-faceted guitarist looks back on a career including stints with Robert Fripp, John Cale, Kevin Ayers and others ...

With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the ...

Chihaya’s version of bibliophobia grew out of the fear of one book in particular—the monograph that her career demanded and ...

Will Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Madonna, and Eddie Vedder ever fold and agree to write autobiographies?

Ultimately, Bibliophobia is a book of paradoxes. It’s a profoundly satisfying book about the maddening inadequacy of books. A ...

In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.

History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...