Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
Big Fellow, Long Fellow. A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera
A Joint Biography of Irish politicians Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera were the two most charismatic leaders of the Irish revolution. This joint biography looks first at their very different upbringings and early careers. Both fought in the 1916 Easter Rising , although it is almost certain they did not meet during that tumultuous...
John le Carre
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The definitive biography of the internationally adored author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and A Perfect Spy—arguably one of the most important and influential writers of the post-World War II period—by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biographer...
Condi
The Condoleezza Rice Story, New Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
This is the remarkable and galvanizing true story of Condoleezza Rice—sixty-sixth United States Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, who once said about his close confidante, "Dr. Rice is not only a brilliant person, she is an experienced person. . . . America will find that she...
RAILROADER
The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Hunter Harrison, the revolutionary railroader from Memphis, dramatically turned four publicly traded companies into cash machines. Starting as a laborer when he was a wayward teenager, Harrison spent a half century in the rail business and nearly two decades running Illinois Central, Canadian National,...
Calvin Coolidge
A Documentary Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A Documentary Biography of America's Thirtieth President
Calvin Coolidge "Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography" reveals the "album version" of President Calvin Coolidge, featuring extended excerpts and, indeed, often the entire texts of major Coolidge addresses--as...
by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Dolly Parton, the undisputed "Queen of Country Music," sold over 100 million records around the world. Dolly is not just singer, songwriter. She's also involved in acting and films. During her diverse career, she eliminated the myth of "dumb blondes," as she is advocating women empowerment and...
Gwen Raverat
Friends, Family and Affections
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
'The best of these Darwins is that they are cut out of rock - three taps is enough to convince one how immense is their solidarity.' So wrote Virginia Woolf affectionately of Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
In this first full biography, Frances Spalding looks beyond the artist...
Always Running
La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: “Fierce, and fearless” (The New York Times).
Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious...
John Gielgud
The Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Sir John Gielgud's career as an actor was perhaps the most distinguished of any of his generation, and, in a lifetime that spanned almost a century, he appeared in hundreds of theatrical productions and films, receiving virtually every honor given, including an Academy Award.
Now, in this wonderfully...
Borrowed Time
An AIDS Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly).
In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of...
by John Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The first major biography (since 1983) of the great movie mogul George Lucas, whose marketing techniques have transformed the film business. His fourth Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace, released in 1999, was perhaps the most eagerly awaited cinematic event of all time. George Lucas is one of the...
by Kirsty Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In 2009, Kirsty Gunn returned to spend the winter in her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, also the place where Katherine Mansfield grew up. In this exquisitely written “notebook,” which blends memoir, biography, and essay, Gunn records that winter-long experience and the unparalleled insight...
Diana Mosley
Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society.
In 1933, Diana met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler....
by Victor Bockris
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Victor Bockriss much admired biography of Keith Richards has been constantly revised since its original publication, now with an additional 12,000 words for a new edition of the Omnibus Press paperback that brings the story up to the present day. First published in eight countries in 1992, at that...