Jeffrey Meyers has published biographies of, among others, Edmund Wilson, Robert Frost, Humphrey Bogart, and Gary Cooper. He has just completed a life of George Orwell. Biography began in the Classical period with Plutarch's Parallel Lives and Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars, both written in Latin in the first two centuries of the Christian era. It continued in the Renaissance with Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari and the Life of Sir Thomas More by his son-in-law William Roper. In the late eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson published his Lives of ...
