Biography & Memoir
Limits of the Known
Paperback
A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present.
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Hardback
A mayor’s inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.
The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Hardback
With kaleidoscopic insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs yet.
Joy Enough: A Memoir
Hardback
February 2019 Selection, Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club
From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother’s image.
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Paperback
This sterling biography of Germany’s greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.