Biography & Memoir
Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up a Little Higher: The Story of an American Civil Rights Pioneer
eBook
“Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer of her time and an overlooked leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice seemed born of heaven.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales
eBook
A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion for the arts and humanities
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Paperback
Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” — David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The Absent Woman: The Genius of Janet Malcolm
Hardback
An illuminating critical biography of one of our most influential nonfiction authors, New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm.
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Paperback
Paul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is...