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 ...

It took nearly a decade for acclaimed and best-selling author Jane Hamilton to ferret out her latest novel’s protagonist, Phoebe. “The Phoebe Variations,” Hamilton’s first book in nine years, was ...

"I wanted to write the book that I wish was written when I was starting out." Arlan Hamilton has made a name for herself over the years as one of the top Black venture capitalists in the country. She ...

Venture capitalists who write books tend to boast about big companies they’ve led or big investments they’ve made. Arlan Hamilton, in contrast, leads with her personal story. A Black woman who ...