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Minor Characters
Minor Characters is a memoir by Joyce Johnson documenting her time and affair with Jack Kerouac providing a very intimate biography of sorts for the man, along with commentary on Allen Ginsberg, among others. The book also tells the story of women...
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 is a book by Joseph Frank.
Henry James: A Life
Henry James: A Life is a book by Leon Edel.
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter is a book by Theodore Rosengarten.
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World is a book by Donald Howard.
Oscar Wilde: Biographie
Oscar Wilde: Biographie is a book by Richard Ellmann.
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt is a book by Geoffrey Ward.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent is a book by Robert Caro.
Patrimony: A True Story
Patrimony: A True Story (1991) is a non-fiction memoir by American writer Philip Roth. In it, he recounts the death of his father, Herman Roth, from brain cancer. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
This book is included in the...
Writing Dangerously: Mary Mccarthy and Her World
Writing Dangerously: Mary Mccarthy and Her World is a book by Carol Brightman.
Shot in the Heart
Shot in the Heart is a memoir written by Mikal Gilmore, then a senior contributing editor at Rolling Stone, about his tumultuous childhood in a dysfunctional Mormon family, and his brother Gary Gilmore's eventual execution by firing squad in 1977...
Savage art
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson is a book by Robert Polito.
Angela's Ashes
Angela’s Ashes is a memoir by Irish-American author Frank McCourt and tells the story of his childhood in Brooklyn and Ireland. It was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Born in Brooklyn, New York on 19...
Ernie Pyle's war
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II is a book by James Tobin.
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
A Beautiful Mind is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, a New York Times economics correspondent. It inspired the 2001 film by the same name.
Starting with his childhood...
The Hairstons
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White is a book by Henry Wiencek.
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (2000, ISBN 9780060193140) is a book by Herbert P. Bix on Emperor Hirohito, emperor of Japan from December 25, 1926 until his death on January 7, 1989, won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction,
Boswell's presumptuous task
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: Writing the Life of Dr Johnson is a book by Adam Sisman.
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place is a book by Janet Browne.
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era is a book by William Taubman.
de Kooning: An American Master
de Kooning: An American Master is a book by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.
