Biography & Memoir
The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Hardback
With kaleidoscopic insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs yet.
Joy Enough: A Memoir
Hardback
February 2019 Selection, Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club
From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother’s image.
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Paperback
This sterling biography of Germany’s greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
Paperback
On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of conductor Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life was unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.
Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming
Paperback
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A BookPage Best Book of the Year
"This exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past." —Robin Shulman, Washington Post