A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

Charles Darwin: Victorian mythmaker, by A. N. Wilson, John Murray A. N. Wilson is a prolific author who has written more than 45 books, including many biographies of subjects ranging from Queen ...

Dozens of biographies have been written about Charles Darwin, one of the most influential thinkers in history. Now, for the first time, his life is portrayed pictorially in an illustrated biography in ...

When Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, came out in 1859, it completely changed the way people view life itself. For some, it was enlightening; for others, it was blasphemous. And now, ...

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne 656pp, Cape, £25 Janet Browne opens the second volume of her biography of Darwin in 1858, at the point when he received Alfred Russel Wallace's ...

Wilson blames Darwin for totalitarianism and portrays him as a monster of ruthless self-interest. It’s a prolific biographer’s cheap attempt to ruffle feathers In the 1850s, and deep in his research ...

Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published in 1859 and is considered the basis of evolutionary biology. (Oli Scarff/GETTY IMAGES) Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the department ...

Acclaimed narrative historian Diana Preston (“Eight Days at Yalta”; “Lusitania”; “Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima”), a first cousin of Charles Darwin’s wife Emma “many generations ...

It may seem peculiar to write a biography of a book, but Darwin's Origin of Species is certainly a worthy subject. A foremost Darwin biographer, Browne takes a straightforward approach to the life and ...

Copies of "On the Origin of Species" in Downe, England, in 2011. (Oli Scarff) "The worst book about Charles Darwin ever written" [Book World, Dec. 31], Jerry A. Coyne's review of "Charles Darwin: ...