Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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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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“There is still something I have not said: but what it is I don’t know, and maybe I have to say it by not saying.”

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“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 . . .”

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“The rest of us would likely do better to get our celebrity fix elsewhere.”

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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.

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“You don’t need to be a hunter or even a man to enjoy this exceptional memoir.”

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“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.”

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In Spinster by Kate Bolick, we are taken on a journey of learning.

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

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“Seyler conveys excitement and adventure from a lost story of a pioneer explorer of the Middle East.”

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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.

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