Biographies

Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, sc...

Cab Drivers! What A Strange Lot! Why Would Anyone Want To Drive A Hack For A Living? Other Than Being Capable Enough To Safely Operate A Vehicle, You Don't ...

The son of a celebrated Hollywood director emerges from his father's shadow to claim his own place as a visionary force in American culture. George Stevens,...

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography Explores The Life And Career Of One Of Hollywood's Great Dames. She Was A Leading Film Personality For More Than Fift...

A Memoir From The Daughter Of George Carlin A Hero To Many, But A Father To One --bill MaherCategories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

Steve Reeves Electrified Audiences For Decades. Rising To Stardom In Two Fields, He Was The First Bodybuilder Turned Actor Long Before Arnold Schwarzenegger...

The Story Of Charlie Chaplin's Years Of Self-imposed Exile From The United States, When He Had Become A Pariah During The 1950s Red Scare. While Living Abro...

Book by Bret, DavidCategories: Humor & EntertainmentPerforming Arts

Granger's Delightful And Elegant Memoir Captures The Extravangance Of Hollywood's Golden Age-and Provides Colorful Portraits Of Many Of Its Major Players Fr...

From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing—now in paperback...

During The Course Of A Career That Began In The Late 1940s, Lenny Bruce Challenged The Sanctity Of Organized Religion And Other Societal And Political Conve...

Most people only know her as Justin Bieber's mom, but Pattie Mallette has had an incredible journey of her own. Many people have heard of her son's rags to ...

Carl Reiner.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureTelevision Performers

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Kaling is] like Tina Fey’s cool little sister. Or perhaps . . . the next Nora Ephron.”—The New York TimesMindy Kali...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER\Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut—and he's just as richly, gloriously funny on the page as on stage.\His...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara ...

“An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circu...

This compilation showcases the most famous murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more. Starting ...

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignan...

Product Description The #1 New York Times BestsellerSo, I've written a book.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable ...

“the First Noteworthy Treatment Of Its Subject—and A Definitive One At That...fascinating Narrative Threads Proliferate” (the New York Times Book Revi...

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

'a Highly Readable Work ... Niven Emerges As Gallant And Gracious.' Chicago Tribune Sheridan Morley Wrote This Biography Of The Consummate On-screen English...

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...

Twenty-five Years After Her Passing, Audrey Hepburn Remains The Most Beloved Of All Hollywood Stars, Known As Much For Her Role As Unicef Ambassador As For ...

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...

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....

John Travolta. Parker Stevenson. Ted Danson. Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Kelsey Grammer. Patrick Swayze. Woody Allen. Woody Harrelson. And many others. . ...

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...

Robert Taylor was one of Hollywood's biggest stars for over thirty-years and starred in such classic films as Magnificent Obsession, Camille, A Yank at Oxfo...

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...

From the chief film critic of Slate comes a fresh and captivating biography on comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton that also explores the ev...

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...

Product Description Academy Award–winning director Michael Curtiz (1886–1962)―whose best-known films includeCasablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dand...

“A cracking read, funny, witty and self-deprecating. Les spares no one, least of all himself” – Lorraine Kelly“There’s no shortage of juicy revela...

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...

Filled with stunning photographs, this fascinating tribute illustrates and illuminates Hepburn's life. From her early years as an ingenue to her status as a...

A biography by Jodie Foster's brother reveals their joint travails as children of divorce and Hollywood, and her subsequent rise to the pinnacle of Hollywoo...

In a career that spanned six decades, as a star of stage and screen, Marlene Dietrich created an unforgettable image. She was an international icon. But t...

Revealing how dreams influence everything including memory, health, and relationships, a guide to making positive changes by identifying dream messages also...

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...

Looking back on his beginnings as a performer, one of America's most popular cabaret singers pays tribute to the Gershwins and the other composers who inspi...

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 ...

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