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Books: Robert Caro’s LBJ series.

I have a terrible confession to make. Put a novel and a biography in front of me, and I’ll almost always take the biography. Novel-writing and novel-loving friends, don’t hate me. I’ll blame it on my...

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An Amazing Collaboration.

I was listening to “Fresh Air” today and Terry Gross was interviewing Kitty Ferguson about her new biography on Stephen Hawking. The book has to be interesting, but what fascinated me most about the...

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The Cliff Dwellers Look for a New Aerie.

Back in 2008, I wrote a book for Chicago’s Lake Claremont Press entitled For Members Only: A History and Guide to Chicago’s Oldest Private Clubs – pretty self-explanatory title re the subject, but if I...

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Process.

The New York Times Magazine led Sunday with a great profile of Robert Caro, one of my writer heroes. His fourth book on LBJ comes out May 1. The series is not so much a biography of a man as of a...

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