Biographies & Memoirs

The Olympic Track And Field Athlete Relates His Road To Victory And Offers Advice For Obtaining Similar GoalsCategories: Sports & OutdoorsBiographies

A Narrative Account Of The 2007 New York City Marathon Interweaves The Stories Of Professional And Amateur Participants, From Great Britain's World-record H...

Bestselling author Tom Brokaw brings readers inside the White House press corps in this up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president....

The Author Uses Sketches, Vignettes, Lists, And Diaries To Describe His Life As A Single Gay Man In New York, From His Childhood To His Many Messy Relations...

This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle was a y...

Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Be...

They were held in brutal captivity―and managed to make it out alive. This is their story. The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJ...

"This is a story of two battles, a battle to keep out 'the world' and a battle to join it." She inhabits a place of chaos, cacophony, and dancing light--w...

From Andre Agassi, One Of The Most Beloved Athletes In History And One Of The Most Gifted Men Ever To Step Onto A Tennis Court, A Beautiful, Haunting Autobi...

the Widely Anticipated Memoir Of Legendary Ace American Fighter Pilot, Robin Olds robin Olds Was A Larger-than-life Hero With A Towering Personality. A Gr...

In May 1995, a photograph and an anonymous note arrived at The Harvard Crimson that said "Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story involving...

Most of Nora EphronCategories: Parenting & RelationshipsHumor

Dramatizes The Life Of The Renaissance Artistic Genius Michelangelo, Recalls His Love Affairs, His Disputes With Cardinals And Popes, And His Years Of Worki...

...offers historically valuable, and tantalizing, insights into the internal workings of the Reagan Administration and the Machiavellian world of Washingto...

Sidney Poitier is One of the Most Revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model...

The Life And Work Of John Wesley (1703-1791) Have Had An Enormous Influence On Modern Christianity, Including His Role As Founding Father Of The Methodists,...

Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America’s last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they cam...

The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil...

A Reflection On Everyday Existence In The ‘sphere Of Consumption Of Late Capitalism’, This Work Is Adorno’s Literary And Philosophical Masterpiece. Th...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

The twisted copycat who looked to the stars... He slipped like a sinister shadow in the night, stalking, then savagely attacking. Most of his unsuspecting t...

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry ...

In Vivid Detail, The Thirty-year Veteran Of Stage And Screen Describes His Texas Upbringing, His Personal Struggles, His Rise To Fame With North And South, ...

New York Times Bestselling Author Shauna Niequist Writes About Unexpected Loss, Change, Faith, Midlife, And A Move To New York City With Her Signature Depth...

In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic ...

Many stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Howe...

"Val embodies what it means to live the American dream." — Robin Roberts, Good Morning America Valentin Chmerkovskiy, the world championship-winning and ...

vintage Presents The Paperback Edition Of The Wild And Brilliant Writings Of Lester Bangs—the Most Outrageous And Popular Rock Critic Of The 1970s—edited ...

Back by popular demand! The exciting, colorful and tragic biography of Canadian F1 racer Gilles Villeneuve. "Never has a champion been profiled in such a ma...

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman—and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it...

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do—until she embarked on ...

Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the ...

Unlock the Power of Authentic LoveGod designed us to thrive in relationships, so it should come as no surprise that the greatest success in life comes thr...

As a young physicist, Leonard Mlodinow looked for guidance from his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Drawing on transcripts from t...

“Just when you think there can be nothing fresh to be said about the long life of Winston Churchill, along comes biographer Michael Shelden’s page-turne...

"You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift--just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." --Malachy McCourt, New York Times b...

For The First Time Anywhere, The First-person Account Of The Planning And Execution Of The Bin Laden Raid From A Navy Seal Who Confronted The Terrorist Mast...

A teen idol of the 1950s who virtually invented the singer/songwriter/heartthrob combination that still tops pop music today, Paul Anka rocketed to fame wi...

Luc Sante's Low Life Is A Portrait Of America's Greatest City, The Riotous And Anarchic Breeding Ground Of Modernity. This Is Not The Familiar Saga Of Mansi...

One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a belove...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

From the bestselling author of A Train in Winter, the story of the Rosselli family, whose courage standing up to Mussolini's fascism helped define the path...

“Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author ...

The legendary Mother Teresa's work for—and among—the poor has become the yardstick by which the entire world measures compassion, generosity, and selfle...

Like Native Children Forced By Law To Attend Schools Across Canada And The United States, Sellars And Other Students Of St. Joseph's Mission Were Allowed Ho...

The First Scientist is the first full-length biography in 50 years of the medieval monk who brought science out of the Dark Ages. Legend transformed the thi...

A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting...

At The Age Of Sixteen, Edith Eger, A Trained Ballet Dancer And Gymnast, Was Sent To Auschwitz. Hours After Her Parents Were Killed, The 'angel Of Death, ' N...