Biography & Memoir

Sort by: 

  • The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects

    Deborah Lutz

    Paperback

    An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.

  • Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds

    Reiner Stach, Kurt Beals

    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

    Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli, Richard Howard, Joseph de Maistre

    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

    Anne Boyd Rioux

    Hardback

    This first full length biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson reaffirms her literary stature and evokes her dramatic life.

  • Words Without Music: A Memoir

    Philip Glass

    Paperback

    Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his...