Billy Strayhorn is best known as the composing partner of Duke Ellington; together they created classic tunes like “Lush Life ...

Arkady Renko is not dead, but we’ve heard all of his tales that we’ll ever hear. That’s because his amazing creator, Martin Cruz Smith, died this July at age 82. Smith spent the last 30 years of his ...

Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of the U.S. Army during World War II. Hawaiian or not, it got the job done: Gordon killed ...

Who was the most significant death of 2017? The year is drawing to a close, and so far 29 people have died who were famous enough to have biographies in Who2. That’s down from 2016, when the number ...

Here’s a story about Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich, Champagne, and a bad quote. But! When hunting for the source of that quote recently, we couldn’t find proof that the actress ever said it at all ...

{Editor’s note: First published on December 5, 2010. See our Bill Cosby biography for updates on his later convictions and imprisonment.} “My father said, ‘Junior, it takes a man to play football, but ...

Stop the presses: 2019 already has its dumbest gossip item. It appears today in the New York Post’s Page Six and stars director Martin Scorsese at the New York Film Critics Circle award dinner: The ...

Our new biography of tennis star Emma Raducanu is now live. We almost said “tennis prodigy,” but that term no longer applies when you’re the reigning U.S. Open champion. Her …..

20 years ago, for reasons we’ve forgotten, actor John Banner was one of our very first Who2 biographies. President George Washington was ceremonially #1, but soon after that came Banner, who starred ...

Arkady Renko is not dead, but we’ve heard all of his tales that we’ll ever hear. That’s because his creator, Martin Cruz Smith, died this July at age 82. The …..

Employees at a gas station in Los Angeles watch President Jimmy Carter giving his energy speech over national television on July 15, 1979 (AP file photo) Nearly 40 years ago, on July 15, 1979, ...

“Much of my life has been like an adolescent dream of an adult life. If you were still a boy, in almost a Peter Pan kind of way, and could have just the perfect life that you wanted to have, that’s ...