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Lightning Man

by Kenneth Silverman

In this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as “perhaps the most illustrious...

Living a Year of Kaddish

by Ari Goldman

Ari Goldman's exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as...

Conversations with Woody Allen

by Eric Lax

From the author of the best-selling biography Woody Allen—the most informative, revealing, and entertaining conversations from his thirty-six years of interviewing the great comedian and filmmaker.

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Denmark Vesey

by David M. Robertson

In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the face of the antebellum...

Portrait of Johnny

by Gene Lees

An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer's best friends.

"Moon River," "Laura," “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My...

The Stardust Lounge

by Deborah Digges

Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot of parents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time he is 13 -- running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around with drugs and guns, and...

Telling

by Marion Winik

Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things Considered...

More Than a Champion

by Jan Philipp Reemtsma

"A dazzling portrait. . . . Written with energy, daring, and artful intelligence."  --San Francisco Chronicle

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Sunnyvale

by Jeff Goodell

In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the next decade,...

South to a Very Old Place

by Albert Murray

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials

by Telford Taylor

The Life of Kingsley Amis

by Zachary Leader

Here is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit and belligerent fierceness of opinion:...

Blue Sky Dream

by David Beers

The Clarks of Cooperstown

by Nicholas Fox Weber

Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints ("Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment"-Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus ("The authoritative account of his life and work"-Michael...

Diary of H. L. Mencken

by H.L. Mencken

A Historical Treasure: the never-before, published diary of the most outspoken, iconoclastic, ferociously articulate of American social critics -- the sui generis newspaperman, columnist for the Baltimore Sun,...

Otto Preminger

by Foster Hirsch

The first full-scale life of the controversial, greatly admired yet often underrated director/producer who was known as "Otto the Terrible."

Nothing about Otto Preminger was small, trivial, or self-denying, from...

Lives of the Poets

by Michael Schmidt

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland...