Biography & Memoir
Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning
Paperback
A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic reflects on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork.
One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
Hardback
A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Paperback
An incisive biography of E.E. Cummings’ early life, including his First World War ambulance service and subsequent imprisonment, inspirations for his inventive poetry
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
Hardback
The first biography of the extraordinary essayist and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semi-autobiographical novel Sleepless Nights
Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Hardback
A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America “stayed white”—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.