Introduction / Lloyd E. Ambrosius -- 1. Biography Matters: Why Historians Need Well-Crafted Biographies More than Ever / Shirley A. Leckie -- 2. Culture and Context in Biographical Studies: The Case of China / R. Keith Schoppa -- 3. Reshaping Tudor Biography: Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves / Retha M. Warnicke -- 4. Conception, Conversation, and Comparison: My Experiences as a Biographer / John Milton Cooper, Jr. -- 5. Ut Pictura Poesis; or The Sisterhood of the Verbal and Visual Arts / Nell Irvin Painter -- 6. Did Friedrich Schelling Kill Auguste Bohmer and Does It Matter? The Necessity of Biography in the History of Philosophy / Robert J. Richards.