Biographie & Autobiographie

Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham

de Carolyn Brown

The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the...

Last Flight

de Amelia Earhart

Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Compiled here are dispatches, letters, diary entries...

Going Home

de Doris Lessing

"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But--a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough...

Anton Chekhov

de Mikhail Chekhov & Eugene Alper

In a style reminiscent of Anton Chekhov himself--realistic, intimate, and dynamic--Mikhail Chekhov shares unparalleled memories and insights, transporting readers into the world of the Chekhov family. He visits...

The King and Dr. Nick

de George Nichopoulos

The truth about Elvis's death from the doctor who spent eleven years as "the King's" personal physician, father-figure, and confidant - "Dr. Nick."

Dr. Nichopoulos spent a decade with Elvis on the road and...

The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976

de Paul Robeson

The eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activist.

The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul...

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness, 1881-88

de Mary Lynn McCree Bryan & Barbara Bair

Venturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author between June 1881,...

The Hippopotamus Pool

de Elizabeth Peters

A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb...and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears...

My Father's Footprints: A Memoir

de Colin McEnroe

Starting with the death of his father and chronicling backwards, the author examines their relationship in order to understand his dad, not just as a father, but as a man.

The Boys of My Youth

de Jo Ann Beard

Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment "The Fourth State of Matter," one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared...

Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels

de Jerry Langton

Walter Stadnick is not an imposing man. At five-foot-four, his face and arms scarred by fire in a motorcycle accident, he would not spring to mind as a leader of Canada's most notorious biker gang, the Hells...

Graffiti on My Soul

de Johanna

"When my mother died, my father let his yard go to rack and ruin. Two years later he picked up a shovel to remove a climbing rose that had died with Mom and had been an anniversary gift Mom and Dad gave each...

Steve McQueen, King of Cool: Tales of a Lurid Life

de Darwin Porter

The truth about Steve McQueen is spectacularly different from the legend projected by his screen persona and Hollywood's media machine. Lurid aspects of McQueen's early life include a gothic horror of a childhood...

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography

de Carroll V. Glines & James Doolittle

After Pearl Harbor, he led America’s flight to victory

General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all.

As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist,...

Just Jackie: Her Private Years

de Edward Klein

In this journalistic tour de force, bestselling author Edward Klein, a friend of Jacqueline Onassis's for many years, takes us behind the public image to give us a story that has never been told before. For...

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

de Candice Millard

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on...

The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron

de Rebecca Keegan

With the release of Avatar in December 2009, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that...

The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy

de James Cross Giblin

When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning...

Inside Obama's Brain

de Sasha Abramsky

"Never has the world needed strong and wise American leadership more than it does now. Abramsky's eminently readable description of Obama's personal gifts makes it clear that he is remarkably suited to be the...

Young Stalin

Costa Book Award Biography 2007, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography 2007

de Simon Sebag Montefiore

Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary,...