Biography & Memoir

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Paperback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Paperback
Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation

Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Hardback
The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country

Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words
Hardback
The man behind some of the most memorable lyrics in the great American songbook emerges from his brother’s shadow

Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays
Paperback
A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and the untapped potential of a new tactile language


