Ritchie Valens was rescued from obscurity by a 1987 movie, “La Bamba,” that finally put the Southern California teen’s story ahead of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, the two older singers who died in ...

Lauren Krystaf is a Resource Writer for Collider. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MS in Library and Information Science. She enjoys the process of researching and has written about topics ...

In her new novel, “Biography of X,” Lacey dreams up a larger-than-life, narcissistic artist, and rewrites American history to tell her story. By Joumana Khatib Tom Waits went to her wedding. David ...

The Dick Kallman of Thomas Mallon’s smart new novel “Up With the Sun” is a petty self-promoter, a pompous ingratiator who can’t get out of his own way long enough to let his middling talent shine ...

Yogi Berra established a greatest-of-all-time brand before professional athletes even knew what it meant to brand themselves. Consider that one book he wrote features a cover photo of him with the ...

Pro wrestling is at its best when it blurs the lines between reality and what you see on TV. D-Generation X did that as well as anyone. The legendary group’s inception was born out of friends Triple H ...

Bestselling biographer Amy Odell peels back the curtain on “one of the most influential and polarizing celebrities of the modern era," its publisher promises Gwyneth: The Biography, a definitive ...

Pessoa had dozens of these alter egos, which he would eventually call “heteronyms.” He gave them birthdates and biographies, cast their horoscopes, practiced their signatures, and brought them along ...