Biography & autobiography

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the love

by Kate Bornstein

A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman...

Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a (Single) Mom

by Bay Buchanan

Conservative leader Bay Buchanan shares the real meaning of family values—the joys, struggles, and lessons she experienced as a single mother to three sons 

A Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa

by Roger S. Levine

Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary,...

Ivan the Terrible

by Isabel de Madariaga

Ivan IV, “the Terrible” (1533–1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing...

After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back

by Nancy Venable Raine

"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when...

Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan

by Donald Keene & Akira Yamaguchi

In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than half a century of his extraordinary adventures as a student of Japan. Keene begins with an account of his bittersweet...

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

by Phyllis Rose

In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.

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While in Darkness There is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune

by Louella Bryant & Howard Dean

A book about Charles Dean, his brother Howard Dean is writing the introduction.

A Complicated Marriage: My Life With Clement Greenberg

by Janice Van Horne

In 1955, Jenny Van Horne was a 21-year-old, naïve Bennington College graduate on her own for the first time in New York City. She meets 46-year-old Clement Greenberg who, she is told, is “the most famous,...

Between Father and Son: Family Letters

by V.S. Naipaul

  At seventeen, V.S. Naipaul wanted to "follow no other profession" but writing. Awarded a scholarship by the Trinidadian government, he set out to attend Oxford, where he was encountered a vastly different...

Champagne and Meatballs

by Bert Whyte & Larry Hannant

A cigar-smoking rabble-rouser, Whyte was known by many as a most charming storyteller.

Roy & Me

by Maurice Yacowar

Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me, a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowar's relationship with Roy Farran-soldier, politician, author, mentor-and...

Ghost Pine: All Stories True

by Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller has published the zineGhost Pine (originally Otaku) since 1996. Whether documenting his youth in suburban Ottawa in the late 1990s, travels across North America or his current home of Montreal, Miller's...

A Very Capable Life

by John Leigh Walters

Written in his mother's unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman.Zarah Petri was a child when her family...

Remind Me Who I Am, Again

by Linda Grant

'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline ... It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that "Memory, I have come...

Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan

by William Hjortsberg

Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others....

No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

by Carolyn Burke

Sympathetic . . . captivating . . . highly effective." Graham Robb, New York Review of Books Concise and gracefully written. . . . Burke surveys all [Piaf's] mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect." James Gavin,...

The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World

by Derek Chollet & Samantha Power

Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served...

Native Sons

by Sol Stein & James Baldwin

James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased...

Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh & Reeve Lindbergh

Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage?” asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. “After a promising start with those first...