“What’s your name, man? Alexander Hamilton.” Whether you’re a history buff or a musical lover, it’s likely you know a thing or two about Alexander Hamilton—one of America’s most influential founding ...

The best historical fiction folds real events into a plausible narrative, with a soupçon of embellishment, without distorting the facts while making these events as relevant as today’s incidents.

When biographer Amanda Vaill read Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (2004), her first thought, she said in a recent interview, was “Oh! Somebody should write about Hamilton’s wife and her sister! He’s ...

Amanda Vaill, here holding a copy of her book “Hotel Florida,” recently released “Pride and Pleasure” on the Schuyler sisters, Angelica and Elizabeth (Eliza). Portrait of Angelica Schuyler Church with ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When biographer Amanda Vaill read Ron ...