Biography & Memoir
Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
Paperback
An hilarious send-up of sex, scandal and the Golden Age of Hollywood by a legendary cartoonist.
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
Paperback
Three sisters from the American South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality and privilege.
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
Hardback
A comprehensive and moving biography of Max Jacob, a brilliant cubist poet who lived at the margins of fame.
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Hardback
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he...
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
Hardback
A biography of one of America’s most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.