Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
Two-Part Invention
The Story of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship.
As Newbery Medal winner Madeleine L’Engle describes...
Grace O'Malley
The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530–1603 with a Forward by Mary McAleese
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Grace O’Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land and at sea in the 16th century. In 1979 Anne Chambers’ original biography of this famous Irishwoman, who over the centuries had been...
At Eighty-Two
A Journal
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling author of At Seventy returns with a memoir about advancing age, including her experience with a series of strokes.
In this poignant and fearless account, Sarton chronicles the struggles of life at eighty-two. She juxtaposes the quotidian details of life—battling...
Eudora Welty
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades wrote hugely popular novels, novellas, essays, and a memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, that became a national...
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The Genius in My Basement
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Alexander Masters tripped over his first book subject on a Cambridge sidewalk, and the result was the multi-award-winning bestseller Stuart: A Life Backwards. His second, he’s found under his floorboards.
One of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the twentieth century, Simon Norton stomps...
Being Poppy
A Portrait of George Herbert Walker Bush
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The most intimate portrait of George H.W. Bush ever published.
George Herbert Walker Bush, the forty-first president of the United States and the patriarch of America’s most powerful political dynasty, never wrote a memoir. But bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Richard...
by Kathleen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The compelling, intimate, and often controversial, story of Katherine Mansfield - one of the world's greatest short story writers - the only writer Virginia Woolf confessed to being afraid of. Kathleen Jones has been the beneficiary of a mass of previously unavailable material relating...
A Man Apart
Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A story of friendship, encouragement, and the quest to design a better world
A Man Apart is the story—part family memoir and part biography—of Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow’s longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life), whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them...
by Julian Preece
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Günter Grass was Germany’s foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain best-sellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979, and the memoir Peeling the Onion astounded readers by revealing Grass had been drafted into the military...
Looking for Betty MacDonald
The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s...
The Man on Mao's Right
From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu’s The Man on Mao’s Right. Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in...
Anton Chekhov
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn:
'With question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and likely to remain so for a very long time to come. Donald Rayfield starts...
John Cheever
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“A biography of great immediacy. . . . There are many sections of great poignancy, many funny things, many of electric intimacy and candor . . . there is spellbinding power, never more so than in describing Cheever’s death, pages that are both terrible and deeply moving; one is losing an...
More About Boy
Tales of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
This new rebrand of MORE ABOUT BOY is a favourite book containing a wealth of new photos, facts and writings about Roald Dahl and his childhood, together with the original text and illustrations from his much-loved memoir. With lots of little-known details, this is a must-have for all Dahl fans!
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