After the first volume of my Gandhi biography came out in 2013, I was in a New York hotel promoting it. The book was on my table and someone from housekeeping came in to clean my room and saw it.

See About archive blog posts. In Wednesday’s L.A. Times, Jonathan Kirsch reviews ‘Great Soul,’ the controversial biography of Mohandas Gandhi by Joseph Lelyveld.

“I do not accept the claim of saintliness,” said Mohandas Gandhi in 1920, when he had not yet been given the spiritual title of “mahatma.” “I am prone to as many weaknesses as you are.” ...

Pulitzer prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld's biography, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India", details correspondence in 1908 between the freedom fighter and Hermann ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld’s new book about Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), “Great Soul,” explores Gandhi’s struggle for leadership within India. It requires more than a passing ...