Biographical Notes

Maggie Scarf,"Vows," NYT, 22 May, reviews Wendy Moore's Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore.

Brian Hayes,"An Epistolary Episode," American Scientist, May/June, reviews Keith Devlin's The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern.

Mark Bostridge,"The darker side of George Eliot," Guardian, 24 May, reviews Brenda Maddox's George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife.

Michael O'Donnell,"Radical Streak," Washington Monthly, May/June, reviews Barry Seldes's Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician.

Janet Maslin,"Unraveling the Labyrinthine Life of a Magical Realist," NYT, 27 May, reviews Gerald Martin's Gabriel García Márquez: A Life.