Category: Biography

Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

By: Allen, Danielle

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Liveright : September 2017

Seller ID: 422619

ISBN-13: 9781631493119

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he languish in prison? And why, at the age of fifteen, was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car?Cuz means both "cousin" and "because." In this searing memoir, Allen unfurls a "new ...
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Dame Nita: Caribbean Woman, World Citizen

By: Blackman, Francis 'Woodie'

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers : January 1995

Seller ID: 360011

ISBN-13: 9789768100740

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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Dancing At the Edge of Life: A Memoir

By: Warner, Gale

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Hyperion : June 1998

Seller ID: 201566

ISBN-13: 9780786863921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

For anyone who's had a loved one die from cancer, Dancing at the Edge of Life will hit home and hit hard. After a pesky cough drove her to the doctor's office, 30-year-old poet and writer Gale Warner was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a viciously malignant form of the disease. She immediately started to record her often extraordinary thoughts in a diary. When she passed away a little more than a year later, she had compiled 1,000 pages of her spiritual and physical illumination and desperation, from the ecstasy of living through a good day to the excruciation of a bone marrow transplan...
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Dancing At The Still Point: Marion Woodman, SOPHIA, and Me - A Friendship Remembered

By: Dickson, Elinor

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Chiron Publications : February 2019

Seller ID: 341334

ISBN-13: 9781630516956

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light reading wear.
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Dare to Hope: Saving American Democracy

By: West, Jason

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Miramax Books : August 2005

Seller ID: 130707

ISBN-13: 9781401352387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Jason West has become a political force for his generation. With logic, charm, and conviction, he has used his platform as mayor of New Paltz, New York, to present a radical vision of human rights. This book is his manifesto. West has received the most press for marrying same-sex couples (and is defendant in numerous lawsuits for solemnizing without a license). But he sees the issue of gay marriage in the context of civil rights, basic equality under the law, which he extends to fair housing, property taxes, and energy use.
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Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons

By: Renehan Jr., Edward J.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Basic Books : April 2006

Seller ID: 466276

ISBN-13: 9780465068869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In Dark Genius of Wall Street, acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation -- and one of the inventors of modern business.
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Vintage)

By: Styron, William

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Vintage : January 1992

Seller ID: 217619

ISBN-13: 9780679736394

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - Very Good

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Vintage)

By: Styron, William

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Vintage : January 1992

Seller ID: 364592

ISBN-13: 9780679736394

Binding: New Trade

Condition: New

Dear Departed: A Memoir

By: Yourcenar, Marguerite

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : December 1992

Seller ID: 462490

ISBN-13: 9780374523671

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

By: Li, Yiyun

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : February 2018

Seller ID: 475871

ISBN-13: 9780399589102

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. "A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life."--Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead "What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?" Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet...
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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

By: Emezi, Akwaeke

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books : June 2022

Seller ID: 474149

ISBN-13: 9780593329207

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

By: Emezi, Akwaeke

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Riverhead Books : June 2021

Seller ID: 439653

ISBN-13: 9780593329191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

" One] of our greatest living writers." --Shondaland Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Harper's Bazaar, BuzzFeed, The Advocate, Lit Hub, Book Page, and Paperback Paris A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self." --Esquire In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the best...
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Death Be Not Proud (Perennial Classics)

By: Gunther, John J.

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics : August 1998

Seller ID: 473216

ISBN-13: 9780060929893

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Plot Summary "Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen. The book opens with his father's fond, vivid portrait of his son - a young man of extraordinary intellectual promise, who excelled at physics, math, and chess, but was also an active, good-hearted, and fun-loving kid. But the heart of the book is a description of the agonized months during which Gunther and his former wife Frances try everything in their power to halt the spread of Johnny's cancer and to make him as happy and comfortable as po...
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Death of My Father the Pope

By: Silva, Obed

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Picador Paper : December 2022

Seller ID: 453504

ISBN-13: 9781250858900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Library of America : November 1983

Seller ID: 463400

ISBN-13: 9780940450127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This Library of America volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Now brought together for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many forms--fiction, poetry, philosophical and historical speculation, autobiography--in which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American life and values. Each of the two novels, Democracy and Esther, chooses a woman on whom to center the effects of social change. In Democracy, Made...
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Diane Arbus: A Biography

By: Bosworth, Patricia

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : May 1984

Seller ID: 403754

ISBN-13: 9780394504049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Diary of a Young Girl.

Price: $14.95

Seller ID: 459466

ISBN-13: 9788182529557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams

By: Tosches, Nick

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Delta : April 1999

Seller ID: 468303

ISBN-13: 9780385334297

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the famous Rat Pack in a Hollywood he called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand, guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him. Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex, ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast, and without apolog...
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Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir

By: Auder, Alexandra

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Viking : May 2023

Seller ID: 474326

ISBN-13: 9780593299951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

By: Myers, Linda Joy

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Two Bridges Press : May 2005

Seller ID: 322255

ISBN-13: 9780972394758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

I have long been one of those who avoided dealing with death, who dodged sentiment, who felt that stories about the loss of a loved one were a bit indulgent, a way of saying 'my pain is greater than your pain.' That was before I lost my father and my wife lost her mother, both within ten days. And that was before I read Linda Joy Myers's Don't Call Me Mother. This is powerful stuff, richly layered, emotional without being manipulative, insightful without being indulgent. It's a wonderful read and a marvelous examination of life and its inevitable conclusion. I loved it. ?James Dalessandro, aut...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

By: Fuller, Alexandra

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : March 2003

Seller ID: 470970

ISBN-13: 9780375758997

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother. "This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over."--Newsweek "By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling."--The New Yorker Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even ...
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Doris Lessing: A Biography

By: Klein, Carole

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub : October 2000

Seller ID: 387157

ISBN-13: 9780786708062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Based on exclusive interviews with the fascinating Doris Lessing's lovers, colleagues, and friends, this first biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers uncovers the woman that Lessing herself withheld in her autobiographical novels and memoirs. For beyond the courageous, resourceful figure who fearlessly challenges the status quo in works like the four-volume Children of Violence or Lessing's masterpiece. The Golden Notebook, this revealing study finds an emotionally fragile woman forever in search of her essential identity.Displaced and rebellious, born in Persia a...
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Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849

By: Frank, Joseph

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Princeton Univ Press : January 1998

Seller ID: 204845

ISBN-13: 9780860517207

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, stain on page edges, light reading wear.
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Down Home .. Notes of a Maritime Son

By: Bruce, Harry

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Key Porter Books : January 1988

Seller ID: 423162

ISBN-13: 9781550132380

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Down These Mean Streets

By: Thomas, Piri

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Vintage : November 1997

Seller ID: 435544

ISBN-13: 9780679781424

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barr...
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Downhill All The Way: An Autobiography Of The Years 1919 To 1939

By: Woolf, Leonard

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 1989

Seller ID: 450997

ISBN-13: 9780156261456

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Leonard Woolf's recollections of his life with Virginia Woolf during the years when she wrote her major novels; also an account of the growth of the Hogarth Press, as well as portraits of Sigmund Freud, T. S. Eliot, and others. There is a lucid probity in Leonard Woolf's writing (Leon Edel, Saturday Review). Index; photographs.

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Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

By: O'Keefe Aptowicz, Cristin

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Avery : September 2015

Seller ID: 457446

ISBN-13: 9781592409259

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia, performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools--or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent M tter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the mid-nineteenth century. Although he died at just forty-eight, M tter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the st...
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Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey (Jewish Women Writers)

By: Zonana, Joyce

Price: $6.99

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY : August 2008

Seller ID: 441562

ISBN-13: 9781558615731

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The American daughter of Egyptian Jewish immigrants journeys in search of belonging from Brazil to New Orleans and beyond--includes recipes and photos Born to Egyptian Sephardic Jews who fled to the United States after the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Joyce Zonana spent her childhood in Brooklyn. But her experience of Jewish culture was very different from that of the other children she knew, from the foods they ate to the language they spoke. As she struggled to find a sense of inclusion, never feeling completely American or completely Egyptian, a childhood trip to Brazil became the basis for a...
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Obama, Barack

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Three Rivers Press : August 2004

Seller ID: 415026

ISBN-13: 9781400082773

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race" (The Washington Post Book World). "Quite extraordinary."--Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a...
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Drinking the Rain

By: Shulman, Alix Kates

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux : April 1995

Seller ID: 268269

ISBN-13: 9780374144036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Drinking: A Love Story

By: Knapp, Caroline

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback : May 1997

Seller ID: 277514

ISBN-13: 9780385315548

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as liquid armor, a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way s...
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under

By: MacDonald, Michael Patrick

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : January 2006

Seller ID: 468535

ISBN-13: 9780618470259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A powerfully redemptive story of escape from the Irish American ghetto. Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish American ghetto. The question "How did you get out?" has haunted MacDonald ever since. In response he has written this new book, a searingly honest story of reinvention that begins with young MacDonald's breakaway from the soul-crushing walls of Southie's Old Colony housing project and ends with two healing journeys to Ireland that are unlike anyth...
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Edward Albee: A Singular Journey: A Biography

By: Gussow, Mel

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : August 1999

Seller ID: 247420

ISBN-13: 9780684802787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Isaacson, Walter

Price: $8.98

Publisher: N/A : May 2008

Seller ID: 454494

ISBN-13: 9780743264747

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Clarion Nonfiction)

By: Freedman, Russell

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Clarion Books : April 1997

Seller ID: 471925

ISBN-13: 9780395845202

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A 1994 Newbery Honor Book

The intriguing story of Eleanor Roosevelt traces the life of the former First Lady from her early childhood through the tumultuous years in the White House to her active role in the founding of the United Nations after World War II. A Newberry Honor Book.
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Elia Kazan: A Biography

By: Schickel, Richard

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper : November 2005

Seller ID: 221787

ISBN-13: 9780060195793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

clean copy, dj included, some shelf wear
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Elia Kazan: A Biography

By: Schickel, Richard

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper : November 2005

Seller ID: 258805

ISBN-13: 9780060195793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and influential director in the nation, simultaneously dominating both theater and film. His productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman reshaped the values of the stage. His films -- most notably On the Waterfront -- brought a new realism and a new intensity of performance to the movies. Kazan's career spanned times of enormous change in his adopted country, and...
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Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year

By: Sarton, May

Price: $7.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 1995

Seller ID: 459021

ISBN-13: 9780393313178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sarton writes perceptively of how age affects her: the way small things take longer and tire more, what it feels like to endure pain and to be afraid. Other days her energy returns, her spirits lift, and projects abound. Readers both new and old will cherish this latest dispatch from her ongoing journey.
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Endless Night

By: D'Rozario, Eugene

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Troubador Publishing

Seller ID: 421207

ISBN-13: 9781788033299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

By: Ross, John F.

Price: $19.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : May 2014

Seller ID: 81089

ISBN-13: 9781250033772

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies--the car and airplane--took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace.No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation...
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