Biography & Memoir
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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Hardback
A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world
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Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Paperback
A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race and belief
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After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace
Hardback
Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, “If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?”
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The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
Hardback
A new, genre-defying volume that explores family, marriage, motherhood, place and coming of age with singular wit and emotional clarity
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
eBook
The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema”