Biography & Memoir

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  • The Hemingway Women

    Bernice Kert

    Paperback

    A unique view of Hemingway, the man and the writer, through the women he loved and who loved him. 

  • An Autobiography

    Igor Stravinsky

    Paperback

    While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book—the composer's first—we hear from the man himself.

  • Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius

    Peter Ostwald

    Paperback

    "[Glenn Gould] marks a major advance in our understanding of one of the 20th century's most significant performing artists.... Ostwald is as engrossing a writer as any who has tried his hand at biography."—Ted Libbey, Washington Post Book World

  • Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music

    Leonie Rosenstiel

    Paperback

    A detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.

  • Charles Ives: A Life with Music

    Jan Swafford

    Paperback

    An illuminating portrait of a man whose innovative works profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century American classical music.