Biography & Memoir
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
Paperback
When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal...
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
Paperback
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance, were best friends—until they weren’t.
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
Hardback
Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and American literature, were best friends—until they weren’t.
Robert E. Lee: A Biography
Paperback
"The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books
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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Hardback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator