Biography & Memoir
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.
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
Paperback
Michael Gorra, one of America’s most preeminent literary critics, asks how we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
Paperback
A biography of one of America’s most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.