Monday, November 28

Two new appealing biographies out in time for the holidays are:

Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie.  I read his great biography of Peter the Great while on the train from Saint Petersburg to Moscow with my wife and our newly adopted children; and

Something Urgent I Have to Say to You, The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams, by Herbert Leibowitz.  I have Williams’ complete collection of poems. He was a doctor with a daily practice and a poet.