Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

Our country has been at war for 20 years, and despite several presidents promising to get us out of conflicts in the Middle East, each one has been defeated in his ambitions to date.

“in Philip Roth: The Biography, Blake Bailey provides ample evidence of his understanding of modern American literature and the frailties and achievements of an ar

It’s not surprising that the jacket blurb compares this new memoir to Patti Smith’s Just Kids. Besides being a terrific book, that one sold really well.

“‘Yes, I was odd, but not on purpose . . . Nor, I now realize, was I the only one.””

Rudyard Kipling—the Anglo Indian novelist, short story writer, and bard of the British Empire—must have known that it wasn't true when he wrote, "East is East, and West is West, and Never the twain

“The Empathy Diaries should be required reading for men who care about the emotional landscape of women and the health of their own feminine side.”

“If you have read only smaller portions of Dostoevsky, Christofi’s account will send you off to look for more.

Secrets are at the center of Derek DelGaudio’s memoir A Moral Man. There are the secrets he chooses to keep and the ones he decides to reveal.

“I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The Three Mothers is a tribute to and celebration of Black motherhood from the late 1800s to the present.”

“’Being an opera singer was fun, but the people on Bank Street, caring for and about each other, taught me what it means to be human.’”

“[I]n a world beset by scientific illiteracy and misinformation, Isaacson is the gene whisperer we so desperately need.”