Biography
"A magnificent biography ... a breathtaking accomplishment ... an incomparable book."
—John Steele Gordon, American Heritage
"A triumph of exact compassion, of disciplined speculation, and of imaginative justice."
—Christopher Ricks, Sunday Times
Articles and Essays
The New Yorker, May 8, 2006
The New York Times Magazine, April 16, 2000
The New Yorker, March 29, 1999
The New Yorker, Nov. 23, 1998