Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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“good storytelling built on solid scholarship . . .”

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“A writer of extreme beauty, a shaper of divine sentences, Macdonald is also a memoirist who understands the power of telling a story . . .”

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“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.”

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After finishing After Woodstock: The True Story of a Belgian Movie, an Israeli Wedding, and a Manhattan Breakdown, the beleaguered reader cannot escape the fact that he knows more about

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This is an engaging idea for a book engagingly written.

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One of the great pities of our time is that we live in a golden age of readable but also solid academic credible studies of Roman and Medieval history for a popular audience.

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“He’s wonkish and not terribly entertaining. You could say as much about the book.”

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“For those who want to understand the inner workings of a self-mutilator, Sharp is an excellent read.

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“It is the writing itself that astonishes. It is elegant, poetic—even appropriately elegiac—and wry.”

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“the message of hope and inspiration has the potential to help millions who are survivors of trauma and the people closest to them.”

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American Goulash tells Stephanie Yuhas’s childhood story with humor, pathos, and love.”

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“This highly readable book never lacks for the big story but it also does not let that history lose the hero.”

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“. . . pretty much everyone can take away something positive from this book.”

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Nazila Fathi is a woman of courage. She is also a very good writer.

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I try to stay on the positive side of things as much as I can, because I’m a positive kind of guy.  But once in a while, a book comes along that is so laughably obtuse that you just can’t give it a

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“a truly remarkable story of a born activist.”

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“. . . the kind of book that provides endless possibilities in terms of multiple readings as it is a timeline, a diary, a love letter to the designer’s career.”

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Journey of a Dress is a fun retelling of a true fashion fairy tale.”

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“What also sets apart Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record is that it is written by the subject and not by some third party who never knew her.”

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A volume of prayer, meditation, worship and dance, Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics by Van Morrison features the best of a man driven by memory, th

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Hancock, a Buddhist, writes about his spiritual journey in Possibilities but isn’t preachy about his its effect on his life, relationships, music and philosophy.”

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Does any biography deserve 700 pages? When you read Lazenby’s Michael Jordan:  The Life you’ll be hard-pressed to answer anything but yes.”

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“Gavin keeps focus on what Peggy Lee was doing musically even as everything else in her life was sensationally spiraling out of control.”

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“In the end, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh stands head and shoulders above myriad other works that purport to tell the ‘whole’ story of Tennessee Williams, his li

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Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan is a collection of rare beauty that allows us to live within her world if only while enjoying this book.”

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