Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
by A. N. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the clever child from the ‘Little End Room’ of his Ulster...
Phiz
The Man Who Drew Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction. For over twenty-three years they worked together, and Phiz's drawings brought to life a galaxy of much-loved characters, from Mr Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby and Mr Micawber, to Little Nell and David Copperfield. But, from...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American business magnate, animator, cartoonist, producer, director, screenwriter, philanthropist and voice actor. A major figure within the American animation industry and throughout the world, he is regarded as an international icon, well known for his influence...
No One Cares About Crazy People
The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
* Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award *** Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * People Magazine Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year *
"Extraordinary and courageous . . . No doubt if everyone were to read this book, the world would...
by Joseph Taglieri
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson is arguably the most thoroughly researched account of this both highly influential and also much maligned American statesman. The mere mention of the name Kissinger in political or academic circles is bound to elicit quite possibly very...
The Maid's Tale
A Revealing Memoir of Life Below Stairs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Praise for Lives of the Servants:
`Reading this fascinating book is likely to unleash almost anyone?s Inner Bolshevik?!' Daily Mail
`...a fascinating portrait of the drudgery and servility of a domestic's life.' The Age
`...captures the subtleties of the English class system to an extraordinary degree.'...
by Dumile Dlakiya
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Dumile Dlakiyas biography, tells us about the real life occurrences that characterized his life from childhood until adulthood. The book begins with Dlakiyas boyhood, which was spent mostly growing up in the rural areas of Transkei which was the homeland of the Xhosa tribe which is now under the Republic...
Edmund Hillary - A Biography
The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man...
As Big as the West
The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2008
Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought...
Her Dream of Dreams
The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
“I am a woman that came from the cotton fields of the South; I was promoted from there to the wash-tub; then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.”
--Madam C. J. Walker, National Negro Business League...
by Mary McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The author of The Group, the groundbreaking bestseller and 1964 National Book Award finalist that shaped a generation of women, brings reminiscences of her girlhood to this intimate and illuminating memoir
*How I Grew *is Mary McCarthy’s intensely personal autobiography of her life from...
by Honor Moore
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
“A striking portrait of a woman artist’s struggle for life.” —Arthur Miller
Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.
The Guardian of Mercy
How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
A captivating study of Renaissance art imitating the life of the artist in “a rich tapestry that intricately weaves the story of an iconic painter” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606...
Long Time Leaving
Dispatches from Up South
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
“I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I’m pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents’ people are deep Southern from many generations, and I spent a little over a third of my life, including the presumably most formative...