Open Road Distribution: 425 books
John Huston
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The first major biography of the famous and controversial director John Huston, whose thirty-seven films—including The Maltese Falcon,* Key Largo*, and The African Queen—are considered classics and garnered him fifteen Academy Award nominations and two wins.
William Wyler
The Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The authorized biography of the celebrated film director William Wyler, a giant in his craft, who directed such classics as Ben-Hur, Funny Girl, and Roman Holiday.
Gloria and Joe
The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The ultimate Hollywood story revealed: the sizzling relationship between Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of America’s most influential political family, and Gloria Swanson, one of the most prominent silent film stars of her day. Gloria and Joe were in love with each other and with the movies, especially Queen...
Malraux
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The authorized biography of the most important man of letters in twentieth century France: André Malraux, French novelist, art theorist, and France’s Minister of Cultural Affairs.
Louise Nevelson
A Passionate Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Louise Nevelson, one of the most important American sculptors of the twentieth century, was a beautiful woman who lived so audacious a life that by the time of her death she was a legend both inside and outside the art world.
Born Leah Berliawsky in Czarist Russia in 1899, she grew up in Maine,...
In Her Voice
Women Directors Talk Directing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Her Voice is the first book that takes the words and experiences of a diverse group of celebrated women film directors and puts their voices front and center. This unique volume of interviews presents more than 40 feature and documentary directors from around the world, including Debra Granik (Winter’s...
by Marjorie Maddox
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Winner of the 1994 Sandstone Poetry Book Award.
I Like What I Know
A Visual Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Published in 1959, this book is what Vincent Price called his “visual autobiography” — the story of his life through his 48th year as seen through the lens of his greatest passion, the visual arts. Peppered with lively stories about both his art collecting and advocacy as well as his career...
Beautiful Exile
The Life of Martha Gellhorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. She reported on wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her travel books are considered classics. Her marriage to Ernest Hemingway, affairs with legendary lovers like...
Biography
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This is the only comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writing about biography. Rollyson, a biographer and scholar of biography, includes chapters on the history of biography (beginning in the Greco-Roman period and concluding with biographers such as Leon Edel and Richard Ellmann). Ample sections...
Did You Know That…?
"Revised and Expanded" Edition: Surprising-But-True Facts About History, Science, Inventions, Geography, Origins, Art, Music, and More
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Did You Know That . . . ?: “Revised and Expanded” Edition: Surprising-But-True Facts About History, Science, Inventions, Geography, Origins, Art, Music, and More is an uncommon compendium of knowledge that will astound, demystify, edify, and debunk. It is a book of ambitious design that is...
Inside Apartheid
One Woman’s Struggle in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In Inside Apartheid, South African-born Janet Levine recounts the horrors and struggles she faced against the minority white government’s brutal system of repression from a rare perspective—that of a white woman who worked within the system even as she fought to transform it.
With candor and...
by Carl Vigeland
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
An intimate, moving, dramatic story about the musicians in a great orchestra who make music come alive in performance and recording. The musicians here are members of the fabled Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Seiji Ozawa, during a season highlighted by Mahler’s Second Symphony, The Resurrection.
by J. D. Landis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Longing tells the story of the greatest artistic couple in history, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. They met when she was eight years old and he was seventeen, drawn together first by music and then by their passion for each other. Drawing on their letters and remarkably frank journals, J. D. Landis...