Crown: 5430 books
High Society
The Life of Grace Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses.
In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that...
Queen of the Air
A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed love affair...
A Curious Man
The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable.
As...
Patti LuPone
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.
With nearly...
Walk Through Walls
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to...
Girl Singer
A Memoir of the Girl Next Door
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
At the top of her form and topping the charts, Rosemary Clooney looks back at a life of triumph and tragedy more dramatic than any work of fiction.
Rosemary Clooney made her first public appearance at the age of three, on the stage of the Russell Theater in her hometown of Maysville, Kentucky,...
by Lea Michele
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The star of the hit show Glee shares her experiences and insider tips on beauty, fashion, inner strength, and more in an illustrated in an illustrated book that’s part memoir, part how-to, and part style guide.
Lea Michele is one of the hardest working performers in show business. Whether...
She Wants It
Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
**New York Times Editors’ Choice **
In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway takes us on a patriarchy-toppling emotional and professional journey. When Jill’s parent came out as transgender, Jill pushed through the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood to create...
Michael Douglas
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, from critically acclaimed and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot
Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become...
Spellbound by Beauty
Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
“The trouble today is that we don’t torture women enough.”
—Alfred Hitchcock
It is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the beautiful, legendary and talented actresses he directed. And when he did, his remarks were mostly...
Mother American Night
My Life in Crazy Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
John Perry Barlow’s wild ride with the Grateful Dead was just part of a Zelig-like life that took him from a childhood as ranching royalty in Wyoming to membership in the Internet Hall of Fame as a digital free speech advocate.
Mother American Night is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and...
Fatal Charms
And Other Tales of Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers...
Life Interrupted
The Unfinished Monologue
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
As the first decade of the new century was getting underway, Spalding Gray worried that the joy he’d finally found with his wife, stepdaughter, and two sons would fail to fuel his work as a theatrical monologist the way anxiety, conflict, doubt, and various crises once had. Before he got the chance...
Learning to Live Out Loud
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
An intimate memoir by three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, one of Hollywood's most gifted and respected actresses
At the age of seventeen, in the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little girl’s dream. Having been selected by Universal Studios to be a contract star,...