Biography & Memoir
Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy
Hardback
Russell Lee, a contemporary of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, now emerges from the shadows as one of the greatest photographers of Depression-era America.
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene
Hardback
A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award
A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair.
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.
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...