Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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

“Worse than that, is the abject contempt the band shows for the very people who have kept them on the road lo these many years . . .”

Baseball historians generally agree on the mainstays of the baseball morality tale. They know that Abner Doubleday had nothing to do with the invention of the game.

“What I feel, I cannot unfeel. What I know I cannot unknow. I can no longer escape my culpability, the mess that I have made. My crime is all I see. My crime is all there is.”

“The high point of The Life of Saul Bellow is the use of illustrations.”

Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, who quickly becomes “Madam Ambassador,” starts her memoir with a bang. Shortly after starting her post as the first Greek-American to serve as a U.S.

Barney Frank came to Washington with Ronald Reagan in 1980. There ends any similarity between them.

It’s hard to believe that young people today may have no idea who Alfred Hitchcock was or what he created.

“What is family? Is it something we inherit, or is it something that we build? The book was the key to everything, the key to my life.

“Poignant sometimes to point of inducing tears, Be Safe, Love Mom is not easy reading.”

“good storytelling built on solid scholarship . . .”

“a tremendous achievement. A work of truth. . . . The Bone Bridge is a book of brutal memories. It is hard to read, but impossible not to.”