Martin Press imprint: 3373 books
Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
Dear Reader,
As I was about to start my eleventh novel, I abruptly realized that I was making a huge mistake. On the verge of launching into the imagined world of a twenty-eight-year-old, I felt an intense need to tell another story, the story of a woman I know through and through...a woman...
Looking for Anne of Green Gables
The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne of Green Gables, and her first appearance was in a book that has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than...
Hemingway in Love
His Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In June of 1961, A. E. Hotchner visited a close friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke - three weeks later, Ernest Hemingway returned home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a saga that Hemingway...
Time Was Soft There
A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
"Some bookstores are filled with stories both inside and outside the bindings. These are places of sanctuary, even redemption---and Jeremy Mercer has found both amid the stacks of Shakespeare & Co."
---Paul Collins, author of Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
In a small...
by Andrew Lycett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
We all know who James Bond is, but how many of us know much about his creator, Ian Fleming, a master of espionage and thrillers? In this full-length biography, author Andrew Lycett tells the story of Ian Fleming's life proving that it was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation. Educated...
The Last Love Song
A Biography of Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, and subject of the hit documentary The Center Will Not Hold on Netflix delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist...
Behind the Mask
The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization.
In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces...
American Isis
The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, a startling new vision of Plath—the first to draw from the recently-opened Ted Hughes archive
The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of myth. Educated at Smith, she had an epically conflict-filled relationship with her mother,...
by Brenda Maddox
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
George Eliot is one of the most celebrated novelists in history. Her books, including Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and Adam Bede, are as appreciated now as they were in the nineteenth century. Yet her nonconformist and captivating personal life—a compelling story in itself—is not well known. Ridiculed...
Ayn Rand Nation
The Hidden Struggle for America’s Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Thirty years after her death in March 1982, Ayn Rand's ideas have never been more important. Unfettered capitalism, unregulated business, bare-bones government providing no social services, glorification of selfishness, disdain for Judeo-Christian morality—these are the tenets of Rand's harsh philosophy.
In...
Just One Catch
A Biography of Joseph Heller
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The New York Times bestselling writer Tracy Daugherty illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of the Catch-22 author Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took...
by Osho
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2001
Understand the life and teachings of Osho, one of the twentieth century’s most unusual gurus and philosophers, in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic.
In 1990, Osho prepared for his departure from the body that had served him for fifty-nine years—in the words of his attending...
Beatrix Potter
A Life in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and many other Beatrix Potter characters remain in the hearts of millions. However, though Potter is a household name around the world, few know the woman behind the illustrations. Her personal life, including a romantic relationship with her publisher, Norman Warne, and...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Manic Depression and the Life of Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Combining his knowledge as a doctor and a lifelong fascination with Virginia Woolf's life and work, eminent psychiatrist Peter Dally offers a haunting and compelling look at the depression that tormented Virginia Woolf throughout her adult years, in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Manic Depression...