Biography category: 101305 books
Eleonora Duse
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal.
Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended...
Fanny Brice : The Original Funny Girl
The Original Funny Girl
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1992
I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man" Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted...
Trump This!
The Life and Times of Donald Trump, An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Who is Donald Trump?
Even after a yearlong presidential campaign, and constant media coverage, many Americans don’t know if he’s for real or just a businessman turned showman turned politician who has become President of the United States. His path to the White House, from early childhood...
The Man from Mars
Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Now in paperback, the rollicking, critically acclaimed true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America's sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century: Ray Palmer.
“Palmer could not have asked for a more sympathetic chronicler, or a better...
Stalin's Daughter
The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
PEN Literary Award Finalist
New York Times Notable Book
Washington Post Notable Book
Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns...
Custer's Trials
A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History
From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.
In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve, young...
The Heir Apparent
A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE BOSTON GLOBE
This richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World and The Profession of Violence comes the definitive biography of James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming.
It is now over fifty years since the premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducing 007 as the glamorous secret agent...
Hoover
An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal
The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans...
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain.”—The Wall Street Journal
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher...
by Darwin Porter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
“Set amid descriptions of the unimaginable changes that affected America between Hughes's birth in 1905 and his death in 1976, this book gives an insider's perspective about what money can buy and what it can't. Darwin Porter's access to film industry insiders and other Hughes confidants supplied...
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror
The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women--Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the French revolution.
Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined...
Whittaker Chambers
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long...