Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by Random House shows "Edison" by Edmund Morris. (Random House via AP) "Edison," Random House, by Edmund ...

*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 carbon filament used in Edison’s 1897 light bulb experiments generated the precise amount of heat needed to produce ...

Biography as literature lost one of its modern masters when Edmund Morris died in May. His magnum opus on Theodore Roosevelt, begun in the 1970s and completed a decade ago, made a forceful impression ...

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 ...

While reading the excellent biography of Thomas Edison, “Edison,” by Edmund Morris, I discovered a few quotes from the Ohio-born inventor that seemed so appropriate to the pandemic and political times ...

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 ...

I took them out. … The industrious one coaxes it from the environment; the drone lets it lie there while he goes off to the baseball game. The ‘genius’ hangs around his laboratory day and night.” ...