Biography & Memoir
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation
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
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
Paperback
The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told.
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
Paperback
"A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity." —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting
Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."
The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled
Paperback
"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."—Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat