The actress Jill Clayburgh, who died on Friday, had the gift of resembling a real person undergoing life-altering change.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMNora Ephron worries about a failing memory in her new collection of essays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“American Rose,” a biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, often focuses more on its subject’s times than her life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMAn academic family in Eleanor Brown’s “Weird Sisters” communicates through Shakespearean quotations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” is John Lahr’s thick volume on the playwright.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PMSam Wasson’s “Fosse” is an intensively researched and sprawling biography of the director and choreographer.
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