Arts & Literature

Ground-breaking biography of the creator of fiction's best loved detective Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognised the world over, for decades h...

Winner • National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) Winner • Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical) Winner • Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction) A New Yo...

“Lerner will always be remembered as a Broadway light, and one of the brightest.” ―Tom Shales, The Washington Post The Street Where I Live is at once...

Holly Van Leuven. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Arts & Photography MusicRecording & Sound

For The First Time, Curtis 50 Cent Jackson Opens Up About His Amazing Comeback--from Tragic Personal Loss To Thriving Businessman And Cable's Highest-paid E...

Clutching her pink trunk filled with the relics of a lost childhood, twelve-year-old Jenny steps off a bus in Reno and into the wide-open future. Separated...

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was ...

Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his...

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Lived A Richly Imaginative Life That He Expressed In His Poems. The Whole Harmonium Presents Stevens Within The Living Context O...

The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Edd...

Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story-told in revelatory detail-of the making of the legendary albu...

Dancing Barefoot is the full and true story of Patti Smith, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American artists of the rock ’n’ roll er...

Is There A Song That Changed Your Life? Npr's Music Authority Bob Boilen Posed That Question To Some Of Today's Best-loved Musical Legends And Rising Stars....

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

You know him from the hit A&E show Duck Dynasty-now you can enjoy Uncle Si’s tall tales, crazy exploits, and quirky one-liners in one raucous coll...

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the grou...

More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when...

Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Hi...

An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film. Salon - Steve Vineberg The heyday of silent movies began in 1915, when D.W. Griffith rele...

Albert Camus was an enigma to many to his own generation, even some who thought they knew him. He didn't quite fit into the French literary mold; men and w...

In 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet ...

Product Description New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him be...

Autobiography And Star-studded Anecdotes From Original Monkee Micky Dolenz. Too Much Monkee Business -- I Was Born Very Young -- Lions And Tigers And Bears,...

The First Biography Of Manchester Born Singer David Gray, From His Early Years In Obscurity Though The Gradual Building Of Support In Ireland To The Huge Ma...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background ...

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...

Paris, 1933. Three Contemporaries Meet Over Apricot Cocktails At The Bec-de-gaz Bar On The Rue Montparnasse-- And Ignite A Movement, Creating An Entirely Ne...

A behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censor...

In an intimate talk with his protégé, the great sculptor offers candid, wide-ranging comments on a diverse range of topics: the meaning of art; other fame...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

Half A Life Is A Luminously Written Memoir That Will Stand Beside Such Autobiographical Classics As This Boy's Life, Stop Time, And The Liars' Club. A Scrup...

Iron Maiden Book of Souls is the celebration of the band, providing their story in beautiful illustrations including posters, and rare photos of the band’...

A RECOMMENDED SUMMER READ BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, TIME, AND NEWSWEEK Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life ...

Product Description Avant que la lucidité ne le quitte à jamais, un homme écrit à la femme de sa vie, dans le chaos absolu d'une mémoire vacillant...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated ...

New! Exclusive! Inside Kim's wedding with never-seen pix Plus! An amazing new chapter on the secrets of our success! You know a lot about us from watch...

This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano. Nick Flynn met his father...

A Frank, Funny, No-holds-barred Memoir, Here's The Deal Reveals Mandel's Ongoing Struggle With Ocd And Adhd--and Tells How It Has Shaped His Life And Career...

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...