Publishers Are Losing Patience With Multi-Year, Multi-Volume Biographies

“It’s an ever-shrinking group, the authors who are given the real estate between multiple sets of hardcovers to chronicle the life and times of their subjects. ‘I don’t know of anyone who has gotten a contract for a multivolume biography in the last five years,’ said [historian] David Nasaw … ‘God bless Bob Caro, but it’s over.'”