Posts Tagged ‘biography’
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory and experiment, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything-at least about…
Read MorePaul Simon: The Life
A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn. For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have established him…
Read MoreWest with the Night
A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markham’s West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a…
Read MoreMeghan A Hollywood Princess
From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry’s heart.
Read MoreNight
An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps.
Read MoreRitchie Valens The First Latino Rocker
A biography of Valens with an analysis of the significance of his music which incorporated the Latin sound into rock and roll.
Read MoreMakeup to Breakup
Founding drummer Peter “Catman” Criss’s New York Times bestselling memoir, “the best—and most honest—account of KISS craziness during the band’s heyday in the 1970s” (Publishers Weekly), now in paperback—“KISS fans will love every word” (Rolling Stone). Legendary founding KISS drummer Peter “Catman” Criss has lived an incredible life in music, from the streets of Brooklyn…
Read MoreMy Brief History Stephen Hawking
The famous physicist details the events of his life and career, including attending Oxford and Cambridge, his ALS diagnosis, his study of black holes, and his penning of the bestselling “A Brief History of Time.”
Read MoreDon’t Let My Past Be Your Future
‘Harry Leslie Smith is a vital and powerful voice speaking across generations about the struggle for a just society’ Jeremy Corbyn THIS A CALL TO ARMS FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW: DON’T LET THE PAST BECOME OUR FUTURE Harry Leslie Smith is a great British stalwart. A survivor of the Great Depression, a Second…
Read MoreWallis in Love
For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. “You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.” -Wallis Simpson Before…
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