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William S. McFeely
Paperback
"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best."—Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
José Clemente Orozco in the United States
Renato González Mello, Diane Miliotes
Hardback
The complete North American work of one of Mexico's greatest muralists.
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation
Jeffrey Meyers
Paperback
"Admirable...consistent with its subject's unassuming intelligence.... Meyers relates [Orwell's] life crisply and judiciously."—The New York Times
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Christoph Wolff
Paperback
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.
Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
Dorothea Tanning
Paperback
The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told.