I don’t consider myself to be well-read when it comes to the genre of biography. However, I stumbled across two wonderful recent biographies this past year, thanks to the “New” shelf at my public library. Both are tomes. Both had sections that were hard to push through at times, due to being so dense with information. However, I loved them both, and I’d recommend them to anyone with even a cursory interest in the writer.

• And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields

• James Joyce: A New Biography, by Gordon Bowker