A sympathetic, informative and just biography of the compulsively workaholic magazine illustrator and restless man about town.

So it is fitting that Joseph McBride's immensely informative critical biography, "Searching for John Ford," is a big, bold, slow-paced book.

A detailed, informative biography of the secretive maker of those amazing little boxes.

A well-written and extremely informative biography of Thirkell's second son, the novelist Colin MacInnes.

On all other counts this is an admirably sharp, informative and entertaining biography.

Robert Greenfield's informative 2006 biography, reviewed for the magazine by Louis Menand, made extensive use of the archive, examining Leary's mythos with a great deal of skepticism.

Writing in these pages last year, Alfred Kazin called this book "a remarkably informative biography."

An insightful, informative biography of the daring and resourceful money manipulator and art collector (1837-1913) who never apologized and never explained.

The most informative detailed biography of Arthur Dee remains that of Charlotte Fell-Smith, published in 1909 [1].

In 1997 our reviewer, James R. Mellow, called this a "thoroughly detailed, highly informative biography."