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Running with Scissors
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Now including an excerpt from Lust & Wonder, a new memoir coming in March 2016.
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly,...
Super Boys
The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--the Creators of Superman
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel*,* comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay
Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches...
Boogie Man
The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Acclaimed writer Charles Shaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of an extraordinary musician. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker, and he lets the man from Clarksdale, Mississippi, tell his own story. "Everything you read on album covers is not true,...
Seeing the Light
Inside the Velvet Underground
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
With exclusive new interviews from the band, this is a captivating account of one of the most influential groups in rock history.
Brian Eno famously said "the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." Perhaps no other musicians...
Tasteful Nudes
...and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"I run into Dave Hill all the time at the coffee shop in our neighborhood. He's always unshaven and badly hungover, with some 16-year-old groupie from Cleveland in tow—and he's just as funny then as he is in Tasteful Nudes. He is my idol." —Malcolm Gladwell
"Dave Hill speaks,...
Road Dog
Life and Reflections from the Road as a Stand-up Comic
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Road Dog is comedian, actor, and writer, Dov Davidoff's unflinching memoir told through reflections of twelve months on the road. Davidoff travels across the country from college campuses to local theaters doing stand-up comedy and telling it like it is. He's been known to wax poetic about everything...
Fat, Drunk, and Stupid
The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
In 1976 the creators of National Lampoon, America's most popular humor magazine, decided to make a movie. It would be set on a college campus in the 1960s, loosely based on the experiences of Lampoon writers Chris Miller and Harold Ramis and Lampoon editor Doug Kenney. They named it Animal House,...
Marilyn Monroe
The Private Life of a Public Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography explores the secret selves behind Marilyn Monroe’s public facades.
Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still dominates popular culture. Now, drawing on years of research...
Julie Andrews
An Intimate Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequaled by any in her time.
In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 1965, The Sound of Music made her the most famous woman in...
by Vivica A. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Vivica A. Fox is a dynamo who has created a lasting career on her own, through sheer, roll-up-your-sleeves DIY hustle. Every Day I'm Hustling is a personal book with a message Fox passionately believes in: that you make your own luck, that you never ever wake up in the morning thinking somebody’s...
Some Enchanted Evenings
The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make a dent in the...
Voice Lessons
A Sisters Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Voice Lessons is the story of one younger sister growing up in the shadow of a larger-than-life older sister—looking up to her, wondering how they were alike and how they were different and, ultimately, learning how to live her own life and speak in her own voice on her own terms.
As Cara...
Maggie Smith: A Biography
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star of comedy and...
by Ian Harding
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A 7-time Teen Choice Award Winner on Freeform's most-watched series, Pretty Little Liars … A social media influencer with over 7 million followers … An avid birdwatcher? Yes, you read that correctly. Ian Harding is all of these things, and so much more. In this memoir, explore the unexpected world...