Biographies and Biographers: A Reading

Francine Klagsbrun presents the definitive biographer of one of the most notable women of our time, in Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel, which brings to life the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel. Jonathan Eig’s unauthorized biography, Ali: A Life, is a groundbreaking story about race, about a brutal sport, and about a fascinating man who shook up the world. Renowned biographer James Atlas presents an endearing tale of how writers’ lives get documented, in The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale.