Topic: Biography

Publisher V. Vale describes how Burroughs became a role model on the punk rock scene.

Who was Gilbert Stuart? His most famous portrait may be more ubiquitous than even the Mona Lisa.

Benazir Bhutto lived a life of Shakespearean proportions.

Follow the unlikely story of America's original shock-jock.

Filmmaker Rebecca Ferris describes what compelled her to tell the story of Jason Miller.

Award-winning playwright and actor Jason Miller experienced fame briefly, then seemed to vanish.

Basquiat was the wunderkind of New York's Lower East Side.

Who Was SAMO?

He had a talent for transforming street energies into high art.

Mark Hogancamp devised a peculiar brand of therapy to recover from a savage beating.

Was I a bad guy ... was I mean?

Marwencol's golden rule: be friendly!

Imagination unlimited ... but only 27 Barbies!

Two thumbs up from the star of the show!

Called back in 2007 as Pakistan's best hope for democracy, Benazir paid the highest price.

Her wedding to Asif Ali Zardari was compared to a Bollywood movie or a campaign event.

In a recorded interview, Benazir described the people as her greatest source of strength.

Organizing women to plant trees became an act of political resistance in Kenya.

In 2006, she became the first woman elected president of an African nation.

The driving force behind Daisy Bates's activism was the murder of her mother.

Jessie Little Doe Baird, a Wampanoag linguist, helps her tribe revive its mother tongue.

An historical look back at the Disability Rights Movement.

Recalling an invigorating act of civil disobedience.

Scaling the Capitol Steps for Disability Rights.

Razing the shameful wall of exclusion.

Jessie Little Doe describes her initial resistance to working with a white linguist.

The Wampanoag people are recovering ancestral stories and writing original songs in their language.

A new generation is breathing life into what was once thought to be a lost language.

Though their ethnicities are mixed, the Wampanoag take pride in their tribal heritage.

Fred and Trish shared a passion for the Celtics, Hill Street Blues, and each other.