In a must-read book for anyone interested in Abraham Lincoln, a scholar analyzes the president’s most personal notes to himself.
Too often a side character in the story of Henry VIII, Catherine Howard is given new depth and dimension in Russell’s biography of the doomed queen.
In an engrossing new study, Crowther reveals the parallels between Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—two disparate, talented and troubled poetic geniuses.
Generations of Tomie dePaola’s fans will find hours of delight in The Worlds of Tomie dePaola, a comprehensive study of the author-illustrator’s life and work.
Alexander Graham Bell is best known as the brilliant inventor of the telephone, yet there was a darker side to him, obscured by the glow of his genius.
Like Lab Girl on steroids, The Code Breaker paints a detailed picture of how Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jennifer Douda works.
Brimming with history and discussion topics related to religion and progressivism, it’s an inspired choice for Women’s History Month.
A dynamic discussion of social justice, women’s rights and the often overlooked history of American activism during the early 20th century.
Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker turns her insightful gaze on three women who covered the Vietnam War in You Don’t Belong Here.
This authorized biography of Tom Stoppard, one of the world’s great playwrights, sheds new light on his brilliant work and charmed life.
The Three Mothers maps the lives of three young civil rights activists long before they raised sons who would become leaders in the movement.
Candid, colorful and chock-full of detail, Mike Nichols: A Life is the biography that Nichols well deserves.
Richard Bradford’s Devils, Lusts, and Strange Desires is the third biography of Highsmith to emerge in recent years, and it is by far the most lurid.
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