Biography & autobiography

You Could Lose an Eye

by David Reich

“You Could Lose an Eye” is the expression David Reich’s mother often used for those she loved. It is the story of a family’s transition from the wretched oppression they left behind when they arrived...

We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran

by Aria Minu-Sepehr

ARIA MINU-SEPEHR was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary privilege as the son of a major general in the Shah’s Imperial Iranian Air Force. It seemed his father could do anything—lead the Golden...

Birth Of The Cool

by Lewis MacAdams

Miles Davis and Juliette Greco, Jackson Pollock and Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and Bob Dylan and William Burroughs.

What do all these people have in common? Fame, of course, and undeniable talent. But most...

Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness

by Guy Maclean Rogers

For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend–and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to...

Crowns, Crosses, and Stars

by Sibylle Sarah, Baroness von Niemoeller

This is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America. It is also...

Reagan: The Hollywood Years

by Marc Eliot

Ronald Reagan was one of the most powerful and popular American presidents. The key to understanding his political success and the remarkable likability and effortless charisma that made it possible is hidden...

This Is Not About Me

by Janice Galloway

'My mother thought I was the menopause' - one of Britain's greatest contemporary novelists turns her focus, in luminous, powerful prose, to her eccentric childhood in the 1950s and '60s.

Ways Of Staying

by Kevin Bloom

After the brutal, random murder of his cousin, Kevin Bloom was left with shock, grief and anger - and one burning question: 'Why stay in South Africa?'

Cee Lo Green: An Unauthorized Biography

by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies

Cee Lo Green is a former Goodie Mob member, Southern gentleman, YouTube sensation, and Gnarls Barkley vocalist. If you ask the general public, you'll find he's best known for his vocals on mid-tempo, radio-friendly...

Daniel Tosh: An Unauthorized Biography

by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies

As the host of Comedy Central's Tosh.0, Daniel Tosh is known for his biting wit and his ability to make just about everyone laugh their head off. Daniel himself describes his wit as "insanely condescending and...

Nicki Minaj: An Unauthorized Biography

by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies

With so many different sides of her personality coming out in each new track, it's hard to figure out just who Nicki Minaj really is. But like any other story, it sometimes helps to look back at the beginning...

Bridge Builder

by Walther Leisler Kiep

Walther Leisler Kiep is one of the most independent and influential German post-war politicians. He is also a successful entrepreneur and longtime chairman of Atlantik-Bru?cke, the influential German-American...

Assignment Homicide: Behind the Headlines

by Jeanne Toomey

In New York City in 1948, a dozen or so reporters founded the New York Press Club to improve relations between newspapermen and the judiciary and police department. One of these "newspapermen," and the only...

True North: The Story Of Mary And Elizabeth Durack

by Brenda Niall

Through war, love affairs, children and old age, the Duracks' creative lives were always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private family letters,...

Hedy Lamarr

by Ruth Barton

Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she escaped...

Arthur Penn

by Nat Segaloff

Arthur Penn: American Director is the comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential filmmakers. Thematic chapters lucidly convey the story of Penn's life and career, as well as pertinent...

Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools

by Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin

Cora Wilson Stewart (1875--1958) was an elementary school teacher and county school superintendent in eastern Kentucky who, in the fall of 1911, decided to open the classrooms in her district to adult pupils....

Seminary Boy

by John Cornwell

John Cornwell evokes a vanished time and way of life in this moving and, at times, troubling memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male world of the seminary.

Born into a destitute family with a...

The Dentist of Auschwitz

by Benjamin Jacobs

" In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary...

The Lost One

by Stephen D. Youngkin

Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between...