Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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“If you want to win The New Yorker cartoon caption contest, read this book. Read it, too, for a behind-the-scenes peek at the enterprise that makes us smile.”

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John Lahr just won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his penetrating biography of Tennessee Williams.

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“In this intricate and intimate journey Rita Gabis brings macrocosmic Holocaust horror into the microcosm of our dining rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms—a noble feat, one you will not soon for

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The plight of homeless LGBT youth seldom gets the attention it deserves. Ryan Berg’s book No House to Call My Home is one man’s attempt to remedy that situation.

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What is the reader’s take-away from The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty’s new biography of greatest-living-American-author Joan Didion?

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The first three paragraphs of the author’s note of David Plante’s new memoir, Worlds Apart come as something of a warning:

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Abraham Lincoln is one of the most haunting presidents in US history. Sightings of his ghost, and his assassin’s, have been reported for more than 150 years.

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Something decidedly odd is going on at Blood Moon Productions, whose Babylon Series has recently released its latest Hollywood biography: Peter O’Toole: Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel

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“May we find the courage . . . to make this land . . . a more just, more reasonable, and more tolerant place.”

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“It is a memoir full of ache. An ache siblings understand.”

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If that "Stay thirsty my friends" Dos Equis man hadn't been dubbed "The Most Interesting Man in the World," surely Geoffrey Kent could claim the sobriquet.

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Cindy Sherman is a unique artist whose photography distinguishes itself by her presence both in front of and behind the camera, as photographer and model, director and actor.

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“Decisive two thumbs up for a compelling and lucid narrative of the ‘finest book in the world.’”

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There’s a Terrance Hayes line that goes “A bandanna is a useful handkerchief, but a handkerchief is a useless-ass bandanna.” A golfer or three-point-shooter might say “Never over, never in.” An unc

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Primates is a single-season sensation that does little more than titillate.”

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Napoleon: a Life is an epic biography by a popular writer who has done the “on the ground work” needed to make the latest of the thousands of biographies of Napoleon something new.

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“[an] entertaining, enlightening success . . ."

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Let’s say that Robert Lacey left out very little from the life of Eileen Ford’s 92 years of life.

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In his book The Cost of Courage author Charles Kaiser brings the horror of existing in occupied France during World War II front and center.

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“masterfully told, phenomenal story of a little-known but highly influential life.”

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“a family history like no other.”

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No one at a Dead concert is dancing to “Eyes of the World” and hearing the same thing.

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If you like modern poetry, or simply a good biography, Young Eliot is the book for you.”

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