I have mentioned Glenn Lovell's excellent biography of director John Sturges, Escape Artist, before. (slantmagazine.com)
This considerable achievement was made possible by Fior's conversations with many people who knew Weil, as well as extensive reading, and reliance on the earlier, excellent biography by Simone Pétrement. (religion-online.org)
This year served up a bumper crop of excellent biographies for youth, and these 10 titles, reviewed in Booklist from June 2015 to May 15, 2016, are the best of the best. (booklistonline.com)