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A New York Times bestseller that’s “an intimate, moving book about a rare talent” (People): Journalist Marja Mills spent 18 months getting to know Harper Lee and her sister in this “winning, nuanced portrait” (USA Today) of an enigmatic literary legend. With over 1,100 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York MagazineTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage…

Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that…

Shortly before his death, Ernest Hemingway detailed to his friend A. E. Hotchner the affair that destroyed his first marriage — and defined the rest of his life. In this “piercingly intimate… tender and devastating portrait” (Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife), Hotchner shares the story as Hemingway once told it to him.

A “vital, large-hearted, and often raucously funny” New York Times bestseller (The Washington Post): Pat Conroy chronicles his tumultuous relationship with his father — and his path to forgiveness. A “painful, lyrical” read that “fans won’t want to miss” (People).

Louisa May Alcott was one of the most successful and bestselling authors of her day, earning more than any of…

A New York Times bestseller with over 4,200 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Focusing on her relationship with her mother, acclaimed author Maya Angelou weaves together their tale of love, loss, and reconciliation. “Irresistible” (The Washington Post).

After their daughter’s unexpected death, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife moved in with their son-in-law to help him raise his three young children. “Sad but somehow triumphant, this memoir is a celebration of family” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along…

In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father’s famous bookshop,…