Personal history
Biography is the most popular non-fiction genre published in Britain. At least, that is the impression one gets from reading the review pages of the Sunday papers. Stephen Trombley explains that the phenomenon is not particularly difficult to understand.
The promise of personal secrets, revelations and the irresistible pull of personality all conspire to put biography at the top of the page, history alongside and novels down below.
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