*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Given that inventor Thomas Edison had a curious mind, maybe it’s fitting that with “Edison,” author Edmund Morris has given ...

The late Edmund Morris, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer known for his willingness to brush aside the norms of his genre if it suited his narrative ends, does it again in his final book: a fresh ...

Charles Trueheart is a contributing editor at the American Scholar. Biography as literature lost one of its modern masters when Edmund Morris died in May. His magnum opus on Theodore Roosevelt, begun ...

Each month in “The Six-Point Inspection,” Future Tense and Zócalo Public Square take a quick look at new science and technology books that are changing the way we see our world. Edison: And the Rise ...

On my vacation last week, I read Edmund Morris’s doorstopper biography of Thomas Edison, which explains how America’s most famous inventor was actually something more valuable: a master of systems who ...

Name a couple of bigger-than-life, American inventors? Easy, right? Who comes to mind? Thomas Edison, of course, and South African-born Elon Musk. Few others even come close. Both have earned the ...

The late Edmund Morris, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer known for his willingness to brush aside the norms of his genre if it suited his narrative ends, does it again in his final book: a fresh ...