Biography & Memoir
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
Paperback
An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.
Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
Hardback
Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
Voyage Around My Room
Paperback
A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
Hardback
This first full length biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson reaffirms her literary stature and evokes her dramatic life.
Words Without Music: A Memoir
Paperback
Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his...