biography

  • Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC of Lois Romano’s “An Inconvenient Widow.” In “An Inconvenient Widow,” Lois Romano has presented a fascinating biography of Mary Todd Lincoln. Romano is entirely unbiased in this book and sought to present Mary Lincoln as the person she was rather than as the much-hated wife…

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  • Thank you NetGalley and Pantheon for the review copy of “The Boundless Deep” by Richard Holmes. It is greatly appreciated! I have read some of Tennyson’s poetry–it’s kind of a requirement if you major in English literature–but I had never read a biography of the poet. Richard Holmes’ “The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and…

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