Skyhorse Publishing: 874 books
My Love Affair with Modern Art
Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
A memoir of the twentieth-century art world, from the famed Art Institute of Chicago curator, critic, and historian.
Katharine Kuh made it her personal mission to bring modern art to the people of America. In 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, she opened Chicago’s first commercial...
by Robert Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A rollicking road trip with the legendary author and humorist.
On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, fifty-nine years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train to Cleveland, launching a performance tour designed to alleviate his financial woes, and, more importantly, resuscitate his...
Hitler's Last Secretary
A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A firsthand account of Adolf Hitler from the woman who worked at his side, stayed with him in the bunker, and was featured in the film Downfall.
In 1942 Germany, Gertraud “Traudl” Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime....
In the Slender Margin
The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“Each of the wonderfully specific tales in this book feels like an antidote to the familiar Hallmark clichés about death and loss” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care counselor in a hospice. When she was a...
James Baldwin
The FBI File
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The FBI’s secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art...
A Study of George Orwell
The Man and His Works
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
An examination of Orwell’s life and body of work, by a fellow author who knew him personally.
Christopher Hollis knew Eric Blair—who would eventually become known to the world as George Orwell—during his schooldays at Eton, afterward in Burma, and at the end of his life. Here, Hollis...
Hemingway's Paris
A Writer's City in Words and Images
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
An “achingly effective” portrait of the city that inspired one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors (Booklist, starred review).
No other place in any of Ernest Hemingway’s travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris. The gorgeous black-and-white photographs...
Wall, Watchtower and Pencil Stub
Writing During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An exploration of the ways writers—from Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer to anonymous individuals—used literature to remember and heal from World War II.
In Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub, John R. Carpenter explores how literteray figures in the mid-twentieth-century, including Samuel Beckett,...
Apprenticed to Venus
My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The memoir of a woman who was mentored by the author of Delta of Venus is a “unique insider’s portrait of a complex, pivotal figure in women’s liberation” (Kirkus Reviews).
In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to the West Village apartment of the notorious writer...
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince
In Search of Saint-Exupéry's Lost Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
“The story behind one of the world’s most popular books . . . Many will enjoy learning about Saint-Exupéry and his life” (Kirkus Reviews).
The Little Prince is revered around the world and one of the bestselling books of all time—two hundred million copies have been sold in 270 languages....
The Candy Men
The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
**This unbelievable, “thoroughly enjoyable” story of the book that shocked censors and (of course) went on to worldwide notoriety (The New York Times).
In the early fall of 1958, the already-notorious Olympia Press in Paris published a novel entitled Candy—an erotic, Rabelaisian satire loosely...
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Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
An “eloquent” exploration of how an intimate relationship with books can enhance and enrich a life (The Boston Globe).
Wendy Fairey grew up among books. As the shy and studious daughter of famed Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s lover during the last years of...
Meanwhile There Are Letters
The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
An intimate correspondence between the Pulitzer Prize–winning Southern writer and the famed crime novelist reveals “a remarkable relationship” (Sue Grafton).
In 1970, Ross Macdonald, the creator of hardboiled detective Lew Archer and an innovator in the crime genre, wrote a letter to...
by Thomas Hosty, James P. Hosty Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A “valuable” account by the FBI agent who began to investigate Lee Harvey Oswald . . . a month before the Kennedy assassination (Publishers Weekly).
A month before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Special Agent James Hosty was tasked with investigating a suspicious...