Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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Born in the forties and raised an only child in a middle class family in the fifties’ South, Peggy Caserta grew up in an era in which girls received little education and then worked only until they

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At the time of his death in 1625, at age 55, James I of England had been already ill with several maladies of the time, but rumors immediately surfaced that he had been poisoned by George Villiers,

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“Captivating and intriguing, Chopin’s Piano will most certainly entertain both novice and hardcore music historians.”

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"when the legend becomes so famous, it takes too long for a good read like this one to replace the sensational with the no less amazing facts"

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“Funny, romantic, utterly charming, Okay Fine Whatever will particularly appeal to people who suffer from anxiety. In other words, everyone.”

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Sven-Eric Liedman’s A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx, is a remarkable and timely contribution and achievement.

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Kara Richardson Whitely’s double-entendre of a title, The Weight of Being, wonderfully captures her physical and emotional life as a person of higher weight.

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“Alice Sparberg Alexiou makes us miss the Bowery— more than we ever knew we could.”

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What can we learn about the current president of the United States from his children?

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First things first: Michèle Mendelssohn’s Making Oscar Wilde is not a biography.

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“an unsettling resonance that more triumphantly framed survivor stories rarely achieve.”

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“In spite of the tragedy and difficulty of reading about man’s inhumanity to man, this should be required reading for all . . .”

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“I believe that the principal reason we are on this planet is to have our noses constantly rubbed in our obligation to care about people who are strangers to us.

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Verdi’s life was the stuff operas are made of: sex scandals, political turmoil, creative pitfalls, testy divas, and meddling producers, but nothing stopped him from becoming the most famous opera c

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“I got the Simpsons job the same way I got a wife,” writes Mike Reiss. “I was not the first choice, but I was available.”

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“Forget your fishnet fantasies and take the rose out of your teeth,” Meghan Flaherty tells us in the prologue to her memoir Tango Lessons.

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By all appearances, the Bernsteins were a loving family.

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In late 2012 the freelance American photographer Matthew Schrier was heading out of Syria after a stint of work when his taxi was stopped.

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Michelle Tea’s publisher, the Feminist Press, calls her a “queer countercultural icon.” She is that, indeed, and has been an icon in the queer world for decades.

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Did you grow up having stars in your eyes? Hollywood stars more precisely?

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Van Gogh and the Seasons is everything one would want in a Vincent van Gogh monograph and much more.

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Was there a way for candidate Barack Obama to address chaos in Iraq while also calling for pursuit of Osama bin Laden lodged in a corner of putative partner Pakistan?

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“Fare Thee Well is a passionate and well-written exposé of the behind the scenes action of one of rock and roll’s most iconic bands . . .”

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“Goodbye, Sweet Girl, bursting with such heartfelt, beautifully crafted scenes, is a gift for those who’ve experienced the pain of growing up and out of abusive re

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