Biography & autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers

An Accidental Novelist: A Literary Memoir

by Richard S. Wheeler

In his early forties, Richard Wheeler had never given a thought to writing fiction. By his early seventies, he had written sixty novels. And these were being published while he was climbing the masts of a sinking...

Beside the Rio Hondo: A Memoir of Rural New Mexico

by Phaedra Greenwood

How can a lone female of "a certain age" take her last stand on a stony wedge of land in the mountains of Northern New Mexico? Will she find a job, learn to chop wood, be eaten by a bear or give it up and fall...

Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana

by Rheta Grimsley Johnson & Bailey White

For over a decade, syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson has been spending several months a year in Southwest Louisiana, deep in the heart of Cajun Country. Unlike many other writers who have parachuted...

Doris Fleeson: Incomparably the First Political Journalist of Her Time

by Carolyn Sayler

"She was my idol," said columnist Mary McGrory. McGrory, in writing of women, referred to Doris Fleeson as "incomparably the first political journalist of her time." Fleeson was, in fact, the first woman in...

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

by Jennifer Steil

"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica...

Yesterday Morning

by Diana Athill

A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a sharp evocation...

The Publisher

by Alan Brinkley

Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.

As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce...

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

by Hunter S. Thompson & Jann Wenner

The definitive collection of the king of gonzo journalism’s finest work for ROLLING STONE “Buy the ticket, take the ride,” was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his...

Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention

by Amy Alexander

From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.

From the Rodney...

My Life as a Dame: The Personal and Political Writings of Christina McCall

by Christina McCall & Stephen Clarkson

Considered by many to be the best political writer of her generation, Governor General’s Award-winning author and journalist Christina McCall was a pioneer for women in journalism and one of the most brilliant...

Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from "The Lyons Den"

by Jeffrey Lyons & Charles Osgood

This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor’s, “21,” and Sardi’s, as well as glittering nightclubs...

Waiting for Robert Capa

by Susana Fortes & Adriana V. Lopez

An extraordinary novel of love, war, and art, based on the turbulent real-life romance of legendary photojournalists Gerda Taro and Robert Capa

Artists, Jews, nonconformists, exiles. Gerta Pohorylle meets André...

The Man Who Couldn't Eat

by Jon Reiner

In this beautifully written memoir, both gut-wrenching and inspiring, award-winning writer Jon Reiner tells the story of his agonizing battle with Crohn’s disease—and the extraordinary places his hunger...

Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent

by Georgie Anne Geyer & Mike Royko

In Buying the Night Flight Georgie Anne Geyer, one of the first American women to cover wars abroad, tells of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated...

A Life in Motion: A Memoir

by Florence Howe

Founder of the Feminist Press tells her life story as an activist, scholar, and publisher.

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World

by Andrew Breitbart

Known for his network of conservative websites that draws millions of readers everyday, Andrew Breitbart has one main goal: to make sure the "liberally biased" major news outlets in this country cover all aspects...

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

by Jann S. Wenner, Corey Seymour & Johnny Depp

Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark...

The Talking Cure: A Memoir of Life on Air

by Mike Feder

As a kid growing up in Queens, Mike Feder identified with Scheherazade of The Thousand and One Nights: "The idea of someone having to tell a new tale every night to prevent their head getting chopped off seemed...

First Loves: A Memoir

by Ted Solotaroff

Solotaroff was one of the notable intellectuals of his generation, the founder of the New American Review, editor and friend of Philip Roth, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins. Solotaroff reveals himself here...

All Governments Lie

by Myra MacPherson

Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work...