Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
Hunting with Barracudas
My Life in Hollywood with the Legendary Iris Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
“In this vivid memoir, Snyder . . . probes the lifestyles of actors, agents and producers, depicting a high-octane Hollywood with a desperate dark side” (Publishers Weekly).
Hollywood’s famous child star agent Iris Burton launched the careers of the world’s current movie stars and celebrities...
by Audarshia Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
It's fascinating to watch the onslaught of media attention for anything Beyoncé-related. From the birth of her daughter Blue Ivy, to her very first tweet, to the stupendous honor of being named People's "World's 2012 Most Beautiful Woman," the over-the-top coverage keeps this mega superstar in the...
by Sally Barber
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In 2012, 70-year-old Bob Dylan marked the 50th anniversary of his debut album, Bob Dylan. For a half-century, the artist's genius forged modern culture and challenged ideas of what it meant to be a musician. Dylan pushed the envelope in the music world time and again. He was a reluctant spokesperson...
Learning to Live Out Loud
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
An intimate memoir by three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, one of Hollywood's most gifted and respected actresses
At the age of seventeen, in the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little girl’s dream. Having been selected by Universal Studios to be a contract star,...
Jarmila Novotná
My Life in Song
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotná (1907--1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. Best known for her performances in Der Rosenkavalier, The Marriage of Figaro, and La Traviata, she was a celebrated...
Fanny Brice : The Original Funny Girl
The Original Funny Girl
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1992
I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man" Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted...
Trump This!
The Life and Times of Donald Trump, An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Who is Donald Trump?
Even after a yearlong presidential campaign, and constant media coverage, many Americans don’t know if he’s for real or just a businessman turned showman turned politician who has become President of the United States. His path to the White House, from early childhood...
The Man from Mars
Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Now in paperback, the rollicking, critically acclaimed true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America's sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century: Ray Palmer.
“Palmer could not have asked for a more sympathetic chronicler, or a better...
To Hell and Back
The Classic Memoir of World War II by America's Most Decorated Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II
Originally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty years later, this classic...
Parachute Infantry
An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting...
Stalin's Daughter
The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
PEN Literary Award Finalist
New York Times Notable Book
Washington Post Notable Book
Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns...
Custer's Trials
A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History
From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.
In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints...
House to House
An Epic Memoir of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
THE CLASSIC SOLDIER’S MEMOIR FROM MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT STAFF SERGEANT DAVID BELLAVIA
“A rare and gripping account of frontline combat.”—LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty
“They used to say that the real war will never get in the books. Here it does,...
by Col. Benjamin Tallmadge
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The Revolutionary War colonel—and leader of the famed Culper Spy Ring—tells his story in this fascinating historical autobiography.
When British troops defeated the Continental Army on Long Island, General George Washington was forced to abandon New York in order to save the revolution....