Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elizabeth Hardwick at her home in Castine, Maine during the 1980s. (Susan Wood/Getty Images/Getty Images) The very thought of ...

No one was better at being a movie star than Elizabeth Taylor. Rising from child star to respected actress and a key figure in the rise of celebrity culture as audiences lapped up her off-screen ...

In the book, Brower talks about the abuse Taylor faced throughout her life, including allegedly at the hands of her fourth husband Eddie Fisher. The most terrifying detail was that Fisher reportedly ...

I love reading biographies. I sink into an overstuffed chair and prepare two bookmarks — one for the main text and one for the source notes at the end — so I can flip back and forth between the two. I ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Books about Elizabeth Taylor have covered her legendary (and rocky) ...

“Until someone has the temerity to write a biography of Elizabeth Hardwick,” Hilton Als remarked in 1998, “we will have to rely on her work for its powerful evocation of the life of her mind, and on ...

Kate Andersen Brower’s Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of An Icon is billed as the first-ever authorized biography of the legendary actress, as her family and estate gave her access to Taylor’s ...

Elizabeth Banks, originally named Elizabeth Mitchell, was born on February 10, 1974 (Elizabeth Banks: Age 49) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Ann and Mark Mitchell. She is the oldest of her three ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Craig Brown about "Q: The Voyage Around the Queen," a biography of Queen Elizabeth II told in vignettes and observations. RICHARD DIMBLEBY: In this garment of white, in ...

SPARTANBURG — Elizabeth Boatwright Coker's writing career launched after she graduated from Converse College and moved to New York, where she joined other South Carolinians who were starting a new ...