{"id":28577,"count":186,"description":"Whether you're looking for the best biographies of 2025<\/a>, or outstanding works written decades or even centuries ago, we have some recommendations. To help find a book about a specific person or group of people, we've set up the following lists:\r\n\r\nThe best historical biographies<\/a>\r\nSome of our favourite philosophical biographies<\/a>\r\nLives of the classical composers<\/a>\r\nThe best literary biographies<\/a> (Separately, we also have a section with interviews dedicated to specific literary figures<\/a>, including, for example, an interview on Shakespeare\u2019s life<\/a>, recommended by James Shapiro of Columbia University).\r\n\r\nGroup Biographies<\/a> |\u00a0Best Biographies of 2026<\/a> |\u00a0Music Biographies<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/biography\/","name":"Best Biographies","slug":"biography","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/28577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=28577"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=28577"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=28577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}