Pantheon imprint: 214 books
Like Me
Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America’s heartland, the youngest of three children; about barely remembering a time when she didn’t know she was different.
She writes about her...
Queen
The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington.
A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the studio--making...
Morning Glory
A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Mary Lou Williams -- pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz -- receives the attention she has long deserved in the definitive biography by a leading scholar of women in jazz.
The illegitimate child of an impoverished and indifferent mother,...
Living with Jazz
A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music.
Portrait of Johnny
The Life of John Herndon Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer’s best friends.
“Moon River,” “Laura,” “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby,” “Accentuate the Positive,” “Satin Doll,” “Days of Wine...
Seriously Funny
The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary performer from any that came before or after, comics whose humor did much more than pry guffaws out of audiences. Gerald Nachman presents the stories of the groundbreaking comedy stars of those years, each...
Interesting Times
A Twentieth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.”...
The Huntress
The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
From National Book Award–winner Michael J. Arlen and screenwriter Alice Arlen, here is the fascinating, adventurous life of Alicia Patterson, who became, at age thirty-four, one of the youngest and most successful newspaper publishers in America when she founded Newsday.
With The Huntress,...
by Simone De Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking,...
The Banished Immortal
A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po
In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were...
Adieux
A Farewell to Sartre
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre’s last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir...
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.
Shattered Faith
A Woman's Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annuling Her Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In 1993, Sheila Rauch Kennedy received a letter from the Boston Catholic Archdiocese announcing that her former husband, Congressman Joseph Kennedy, was seeking an annulment of their marriage. If the Church granted the annulment, the marriage, which had lasted twelve years, would be rendered nonexistent...
Butterfly Economics
A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Why did VHS, an inferior video recording technology, succeed in the marketplace, driving the superior Betamax out of business? Why do big-budget, acclaimed movies sometimes flop at the box office, while low-budget, idiosyncratic films become huge hits? The answers to these questions, says Paul Omerod,...