Category: Biography

C.R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key man in the British Arts and Crafts movement during the early decades of the 20th century. Regarded as heir to William Morris in political belief and design reform, Ashbee (and his Guild of Handicraft) gained international fame in his own time and remains a legend today. While much has been written about him, little has been said of his wife. Now Felicity Ashbee breaks the silence in a book about her mother.
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JFK: Reckless Youth

By: Hamilton, Nigel

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Random House : November 1992

Seller ID: 465829

ISBN-13: 9780679412168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

John Adams

By: McCullough, David

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : May 2001

Seller ID: 375839

ISBN-13: 9780684813639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all...
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John Wayne: Made in America

By: the Official John Wayne Magazine, Editors of

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Media Lab Books : May 2018

Seller ID: 468571

ISBN-13: 9780998789828

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?" --John Wayne

A true American to the end, there was nothing John Wayne loved more than his country. In John Wayne: Made in America, John Wayne's patriotism is explored through photos, his personal letters and mementos, and more memorabilia from the Wayne family archives. Carefully curated by the editors of the Official John Wayne magazine, this book gives new insight to the man who embodied the American spirit and was a living legend for more than 40 years.

Joseph Conrad: A Psychoanalytic Biography (Princeton Legacy Library, 1365)

By: Meyer, Bernard Constant

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Princeton University Press : May 1967

Seller ID: 409966

ISBN-13: 9780691060651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Joseph Conrad once voiced the hope that from the reading of his pages might emerge at last the vision of a personality: the man behind the books ... a coherent justifiable personality both in its origin and its actions. Dr. Meyer arrives at a unified picture of Conrad's personality by applying psychoanalytic principles and insights to two main sets of data on Conrad: his unusual history and his creative work. Basic psychological and emotional patterns appear repetitively, and Dr. Meyer concludes that Conrad's art served an important psychological function in his life--the achievement through h...
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Just beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery

By: Foster, Patricia

Price: $17.98

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : October 2004

Seller ID: 179521

ISBN-13: 9780820326887

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile." These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken and a model for anyone who has contemplated self-investigation through autobiographical writing. The book's three sections each convey a stage of Foster's journey--still ongoing--toward new levels of insight and maturity. "Inside the Girls' Room" takes us back to Foster's life in the rural South from the 1950s through ...
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Just beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery

By: Foster, Patricia

Price: $17.95

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : October 2004

Seller ID: 179582

ISBN-13: 9780820326887

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile." These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken and a model for anyone who has contemplated self-investigation through autobiographical writing. The book's three sections each convey a stage of Foster's journey--still ongoing--toward new levels of insight and maturity. "Inside the Girls' Room" takes us back to Foster's life in the rural South from the 1950s through ...
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Kafka: A Biography

By: Hayman, Ronald

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : February 1982

Seller ID: 449330

ISBN-13: 9780195202793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Karl Marx (Modern masters)

By: McLellan, David

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Penguin Books : June 1975

Seller ID: 371995

ISBN-13: 9780670019892

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

By: Remnick, David

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Vintage : October 1999

Seller ID: 455079

ISBN-13: 9780375702297

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was a new kind of black man who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism. No one has captured Ali--and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated--with greater vibrancy, drama, an...
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

By: Thompson, Hunter S.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : October 2003

Seller ID: 118784

ISBN-13: 9780684873244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances. Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking--in his journalism, in his life, and under the law--changed the shape of American letters, and the face of American icons. Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the fo...
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Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

By: Majors, Katie Davis

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Howard Books : October 2011

Seller ID: 221414

ISBN-13: 9781451612066

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The riveting account of a courageous eighteen-year-old from Nashville who gave up every comfort and convenience to become the adoptive mother to thirteen girls in Uganda. What would cause an eighteen-year-old old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disappoint her parents by forgoing college, break her little brother's heart, lose all but a handful of her friends (because the rest of them think she has gone off the deep end), and break up with the love of her life, all so she could move to Uganda, where she knew only one person but didn't know any of the la...
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Knock Wood

By: Bergen, Candice

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : July 2014

Seller ID: 295077

ISBN-13: 9781476770130

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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Know My Name: A Memoir

By: Miller, Chanel

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : August 2020

Seller ID: 304885

ISBN-13: 9780735223721

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter. (The Wrap). I opened Know My Name with the intention to bear witness to the story of a survivor. Instead, I found myself falling into the hands of one of the great writers and thinkers of our time. Chanel Miller is a philosopher, a cultural critic, a deep observer, a wri...
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Kon-Tiki;: Across the Pacific by raft

By: Heyerdahl, Thor

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Pocketbooks : January 1977

Seller ID: 412650

ISBN-13: 9780671813147

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Kris Jenner . . . And All Things Kardashian

By: Jenner, Kris

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing : September 2012

Seller ID: 460824

ISBN-13: 9781451646979

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From everybody's favorite "momager" of E 's hit reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians comes a relatable, brutally honest memoir of Kris Jenner's never-before told story of the savvy businesswoman behind the Kardashian empire. You think you know her...Now read the stories even her famous children haven't heard in this gripping and inspirational New York Times bestseller from the superstar matriarch of one of the biggest celebrity empires of our time. On Keeping Up with the Kardashians, we've watched Kris Jenner do it all. She runs a household, manages her children's blockbuster career...
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Last Stands: Notes From Memory

By: Masters, Hilary

Price: $7.98

Publisher: David R. Godine : January 1982

Seller ID: 449289

ISBN-13: 9780879234430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Latitude & the Magnetic Earth

By: Pumbrey, Stephen

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Totem Books : December 1950

Seller ID: 180761

ISBN-13: 9781567317756

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

By: Abrams, Stacey

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Picador : March 2019

Seller ID: 447670

ISBN-13: 9781250214805

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from the author of OUR TIME IS NOW Abrams's own grit, coupled with her descriptions of much stumbling and self-doubt, will...touch you in a way few books by politicians can. --The New York TimesPRAISE FOR STACEY ABRAMSIn a time when too many folks are focused simply on how to win an election, Stacey's somebody who cares about something more important: why we should. That's the kind of politics we should practice. That's why I'm proud to give Stacey Abrams my support. President Barack Obama National leader Stacey Abrams has written the guide to harnessing the stre...
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Leaving Before the Rains Come

By: Fuller, Alexandra

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Penguin Books : January 2016

Seller ID: 270506

ISBN-13: 9780143128427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear A child of the Rhodesian wars and of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she confronts tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. Fuller soon realizes that what is missing from her life is something that was alway...
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Leaving-Memories of Romania

By: Grunfeld, Mihai

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Millrock Writers Collective : December 2008

Seller ID: 331160

ISBN-13: 9780979229312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl

By: Bach, Steven

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Knopf : March 2007

Seller ID: 130986

ISBN-13: 9780375404009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The definitive biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. It is the story of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity. Two of Riefenstahl's films, "Olympia "and "Triumph of the Will," are universally regarded as the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made, but they are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, in this masterful new biography, Steven ...
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Less than a Treason: Hemingway in Paris

By: Griffin, Peter

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : September 1990

Seller ID: 224400

ISBN-13: 9780195053326

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

clean copy, dj included, some shelf wear
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Lessons in Becoming Myself

By: Burstyn, Ellen

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Riverhead Books : October 2007

Seller ID: 431579

ISBN-13: 9781594482687

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky: His Life and Legacy

By: Horwitt, Sanford D.

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Vintage : March 1992

Seller ID: 462535

ISBN-13: 9780679734185

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies--from Catholic clergymen to labor unionists and black activists, in battles waged against opponents from slumlords to the Eastman Kodak corporation. The range of Alinsky's activities, the intensity of his beliefs, and his exhilarating mixture of crudeness and calculation almost vibrate off the pages of this passionate and ins...
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Life and Times of Hitler

By: Schott, Ian

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Parragon Book Service Ltd : January 1996

Seller ID: 461488

ISBN-13: 9781858139913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Life of John Stuart Mill

By: Packe, Michael St. John.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: MacMillan : January 1954

Seller ID: 373219

ISBN: B000YBCM4W

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman

By: Ogden, Christopher

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : May 1994

Seller ID: 425782

ISBN-13: 9780316633765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Life Portraits: Virginia Woolf

By: Alkayat, Zena

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Chronicle Books : March 2016

Seller ID: 102000

ISBN-13: 9781452150222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

One of literature's most beloved authors is beautifully documented in this illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf. Featuring handwritten text paired with beguiling illustrations and a tactile cover with foil-stamped and debossed details, this giftable package reveals the formative events of Woolf's life: how she was supported--and challenged--in her craft, her struggles with mental illness, and how her great works came to be. With lines pulled from Woolf's own letters featured alongside interesting details, such as her nickname for her husband and how slowly her first novel sold, this intimat...
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Life's Work: A Memoir

By: Milch, David

Price: $22.98

Publisher: Random House : September 2022

Seller ID: 475550

ISBN-13: 9780525510741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life

By: Affron, Charles

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Scribner : March 2001

Seller ID: 271948

ISBN-13: 9780684855141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Written with unprecedented access to her letters, journals, and unpublished articles, this is the definitive biography of a seminal figure in American film -- one of "Entertainment Weekly's" "100 Greatest Stars of All Time." At the time of her death in 1993, Lillian Gish was universally recognized as a film legend. Now, Charles Affron reveals a life that, for decades, was cast in the shadow of self-generated myth. Using newly released papers at the New York Public Library, Affron fills the gaps left by Gish's selective memoirs and author-ized biographies, and shows how the actress carefully f...
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Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

By: Morgan, Ted

Price: $24.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 2012

Seller ID: 395163

ISBN-13: 9780393342604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such...
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LITTLE SAINT (Modern Library (Paperback))

By: Green, Hannah

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House, Inc. : July 2001

Seller ID: 257353

ISBN-13: 9780375757471

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

By: Ehrenreich, Barbara

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Twelve : April 2014

Seller ID: 459609

ISBN-13: 9781455501762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In Living With a Wild God, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find ""the Truth"" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, whi...
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Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals

By: Byron, Lord George Gordon

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Belknap Press : November 1982

Seller ID: 462508

ISBN-13: 9780674539150

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished let...
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Losing Aaron

By: Hughes, Ingrid Blaufarb

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Hamilton Stone Editions : December 2016

Seller ID: 281724

ISBN-13: 9780990376736

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Losing Aaron is the story of the life and death of Aaron Hughes told by his mother, Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes. It describes the devastation of his mind by schizophrenia and the ways that his illness reverberated through the family altering everyone's life. In his teens Aaron was sensible, poised, and brilliantly able in his schoolwork and projects and a generous support to friends and family. Excerpts from his high school journals and medical records suggest that even in high school his illness was beginning its insidious attack. It progressed until, in his first year of graduate school at the ag...
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Losing Aaron

By: Hughes, Ingrid Blaufarb

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Hamilton Stone Editions : December 2016

Seller ID: 449094

ISBN-13: 9780990376736

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Losing Aaron is the story of the life and death of Aaron Hughes told by his mother, Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes. It describes the devastation of his mind by schizophrenia and the ways that his illness reverberated through the family altering everyone's life. In his teens Aaron was sensible, poised, and brilliantly able in his schoolwork and projects and a generous support to friends and family. Excerpts from his high school journals and medical records suggest that even in high school his illness was beginning its insidious attack. It progressed until, in his first year of graduate school at the ag...
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Lot Six: A Memoir

By: Adjmi, David

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Harper : June 2020

Seller ID: 475581

ISBN-13: 9780061990946

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"David Adjmi has written one of the great American memoirs, a heartbreaking, hilarious story of what it means to make things up, including yourself. A wild tale of lack and lies, galling humiliations and majestic reinventions, this touching, coruscating joy of a book is an answer to that perennial question: how should a person be?" -- Olivia Laing, author of Crudo and The Lonely CityIn a world where everyone is inventing a self, curating a feed and performing a fantasy of life, what does it mean to be a person? In his grandly entertaining debut memoir, playwright David Adjmi explores how human...
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