Biography & autobiography

Circular Breathing: Meditations from a Musical Life

by Ann McCutchan

In this collection of personal essays, clarinetist Ann McCutchan uses the metaphor of circular breathing to animate her understanding of her own life as a woman, musician, and writer. Circular breathing is a...

Georgia O'Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part II: Walking the Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch Land

by Nancy Hopkins Reily

The time is 1946. From Georgia O'Keeffe's old hacienda sitting on a bluff in Abiquiu, New Mexico, she could see my aunt and uncle, Helen and Winfield Morten's property across the Chama River. Georgia had begun...

Georgia O'Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part I: Walking the Sun Prairie Land

by Nancy Hopkins Reily

The time is 1887. From any window in Georgia O'Keeffe's Sun Prairie, Wisconsin birthplace home she only saw the Wisconsin prairie with its traces of roads veering around the flat marshlands and a vast sky that...

Strapped Into An American Dream

by Glenn Maynard

Strapped into an American Dream captures America by whirling readers along a 35,000-mile trek through the 48 contiguous states in a rebuilt RV. Glenn Maynard brings this journey to all of the armchair travelers...

Crazy in Lust

by Marilyn Botta

Synopsis: Crazy in Lust... Sometimes you know something is insane; sometimes you just know something is totally wrong, but you do it anyway. That's the way it was with Andy. I fought the feeling that I was attracted...

Growing Stronger

by Thalia

The intimate and revealing memoir of the multi-award-winning telenovela and music superstar.

In Growing Stronger, international superstar Thalia opens up for the first time about her rewarding and sometimes...

Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story

by Mark Matousek

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An Uncommon Man: The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell

by G. Wayne Miller

The only biography of Claiborne Pell, the six-term senator from Rhode Island best known as the sponsor of the educational Pell Grants

Brief(case) Encounters: International Business Travel-uncut

by Alexander Hammond

Have you ever confronted a head of state with your trousers round your ankles? Has your employer ever suggested you take a gun to a meeting? Is Australian wildlife really as dangerous as they say? What do you...

Your Boyfriend & Other Guys I've Kissed: The Tails of Totally Tyler

by Totally Tyler

In the tradition of David Sedaris and Carrie Bradshaw, party boy blogger Totally Tyler hilariously navigates his way through the gay Atlanta dating scene - one lemon drop martini at a time. Sometimes humorous,...

Alice James: A Biography

by Jean Strouse & Colm Toibin

The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and distinguished family in American intellectual life. Henry’s novels, celebrated as among the finest in the language, and William’s groundbreaking philosophical...

Hummingbirds Don't Fly In The Rain: A mothers extraordinary search for her daughter in this life- and the next

by Kimberly Klein

On December 23, 2007, the plane carrying author Kim Klein's only child, Talia, her ex-husband, and her daughter's best friend crashed into the side of a volcano in Panama. Hummingbirds Don't Fly in the Rain...

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2

by Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough & Tony Podlecki

Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most...

Elia Kazan: A Life

by Elia Kazan

“This is the best autobiography I’ve read by a prominent American in I don’t know how many years. It is endlessly absorbing and I believe this is because it concerns a man who is looking to find a coherent...

Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes from a Marriage

by Dorothy J. Gaiter & John Brecher

“I am deeply inspired by this heartwarming story of how two people found love and—even better—a way to get paid for drinking wine.” —Dave Barry

Internationally renowned journalists Dorothy J. Gaiter...

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

by Nicholas Dawidoff

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New...

Our Paris: Sketches from Memory

by Edmund White

With 30 drawings by Hubert Sorin.

From the Hardcover edition.

Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

by Heike B. Gortemaker & Damion Searls

In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of...

The Journals of Spalding Gray

by Spalding Gray & Nell Casey

Riveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the complexity of the actor/writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as...

A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling

by V.S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his...