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Fallingwater Rising
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.
When he got the commission...
A Life of Picasso
The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work. 800 photos.
by Meryle Secrest
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards.” —Modigliani
Amedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend...
Elsa Schiaparelli
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time.
Her style was a social revolution through clothing-luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy; synonymous with fashion innovation and chicesse....
Grant Wood
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.”
Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving...
Luck and Circumstance
A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Normal Heart, The Beatles’ Let It Be, Brideshead Revisited, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, etc.), son of glamorous Warner’s movie star Geraldine Fitzgerald: a magical dreamscape memoir of his boyhood, coming-of-age, and making his way...
by Gavin Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in Miracle on 34th Street. Her adolescence in Rebel Without a Cause. Her coming of age? Still playing in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story and countless other hit movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut in 1946,...
Furious Hours
Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
New York Times Best Seller
“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was one of your favorite books growing up, you should add Furious Hours to your reading list today.” —Southern Living
Reverend...
Inheritance
A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A gripping genetic detective story, and a meditation on the meaning of parenthood and family.” —Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach**
From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist, novelist—“a writer of rare talent” (Cheryl Strayed)— and ...
Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle...
by Seymour M. Hersh
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
**"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." —John le Carré
From the Pulitzer...
The Destiny Thief
Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
"It turns out that Russo the nonfiction writer is a lot like Russo the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences."—Jay Fielden, New York Times Book Review
A master of the novel, short...
Maya Angelou
A Glorious Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate, phenomenal bestselling author, and scribe for the people, Dr. Maya...
Time Pieces
A Dublin Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.
As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived,...