Category: Biographies & Memoirs

Country Girl

Edna O’Brien was born in 1930. Her brilliant debut novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland upon its publication

Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in History “A feast for Civil War buffs … One of the best firsthand

Artist. Public intellectual. Political activist. James Baldwin was all of these and more. Raised in the slums of Depression-era Harlem

Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly

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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography

Nancy Shear was only fifteen when she began sneaking into Philadelphia Orchestra concerts through the stage door, and seventeen when

In this riveting YA non-fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, trace Lorena Hickok—or Hick’s—rise from devastating childhood

Natalie Vellacott worked in Sussex Police for almost a decade, during which time she investigated almost every type of crime

Between 1881, when Churchill was just six, and 1921, the year of his mother’s death, Winston Churchill and Jennie Jerome