Arts & Literature

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers--an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an...

Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and ...

Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a ...

Farley Mowat.Categories: Science & Math Nature & EcologyNature Writing & Essays

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 Washington Post Best Book of 2017 Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of ...

“Mr. Townshend’s self-portrait is raw and unsparing . . .as intimate and as painful as a therapy session.” ―MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES Lo...

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was list...

Gloria Vanderbilt is many things: an heiress, a painter, a muse, a designer, a model, a writer, an entrepreneur, an actor, a socialite, a survivor, an icon...

A Narrative Of [rock Guitarist And Actor Brownstein's] Escape From A Turbulent Family Life Into A World Where Music Was The Means Toward Self-invention, Com...

The personal story of Bill T. Jones describes his childhood as the tenth of twelve migrant farm children, his discovery of dance, his partnership with Arnie...

First published in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to th...

The instant #1 bestselling book of personal stories about remarkable Canadians who embody the values of our great nation and inspire us to do the same, from...

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all ti...

This Is The First Post-mortem, Unauthorized Insight Into Merv Griffin, A Failed Singer And Unsuccessful Actor Who Unexpectedly Rewrote The Rules Of America'...

Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell In Love With 80s Synths is the overlooked story of how R&B, disco and funk were transformed by the explosion of syn...

Metallica is the most successful hard-rock band of all time, having sold more than one hundred million albums worldwide. Receiving unique, unfettered acce...

National BestsellerDrawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Phili...

By Jimmy Ernst. Includes Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureArtists, Architects & Photographers

The definitive biography of Karl Lagerfeld--the last iconic fashion designer--now in paperback! "It starts with me and it ends with me." --Karl Lagerfeld ...

In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal c...

This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she enters the hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, sh...

(Applause Books). Here is the original story of a true original, the celebrated and internationally renowned director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur La...

”To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.” When Joe Orton (1933–1967) wrote those words...

Christopher Isherwood.Categories: LGBTQ+ BooksBiographies & Memoirs

first Time In Paperback: The Landmark Biography Of One Of Hollywood's Last Bigger-than-life Stars library Journal buford, A National Public Radio Comment...

A must-have for Rolling Stones fans, featuring more than 300 rare, spectacular photographs in color and black-and-white Featuring more than 300 photographs...

In This Intimate, Candid, And Sometimes Surprising Community Biography Of The Celebrated Author And Christian Apologist, Twenty-four Men And Women Who Knew ...

This book spans four decades chronicling the public and private journeys of a man voted as one of the 50 greatest artists of all time. With over 30 albums a...

Drawing on interviews with almost everyone who ever associated with Holly, including his widow, a biography creates a vivid picture of a young man who took ...

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible...

Preparing For Das Lied : Fünf Lieder Nach Rückert/kindertotenlieder : From Darkness To Light And The Birth Of Dichotomy -- Decoding Das Lied -- An Afterwo...

Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New Yo...

The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after d...

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Tur...

Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (18...

A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of ...

In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant ter...

"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete indepe...

The autobiography of Iris Origo, this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds, New York, Ireland and Italy; her marriage to Anton...

A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the culture's most revered music iconsboth the tale of his life and legacy and a t...

Dizzy Gillespie has secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of music. But he was much...

The Creator Of Grey's Anatomy And Scandal Details The One-year Experiment With Saying Yes That Transformed Her Life, Revealing How Accepting Unexpected Invi...

Clayton Moore With Frank Thompson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 255) And Index. Filmography: P. 243-255Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts...

Roger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chapli...

Celebrated in His Prime, Forgotten in His Final Years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed rea...

the Ultimate Insider Rock Memoir About Life And Love With The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Crosby, Stills And Nash, And More. the New York T...

Michael Lesy. Text Previously Published As Part Of Visible Light / Michael Lesy. New York : Times Books, 1985.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts &am...

In The Vein Of Nic Sheff's Tweak And Tori Spelling's Stori Telling, Unsweetined Reveals The Former Full House Star's Harrowing Journey From Her Role As Amer...