Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

In this “wise and oddly comforting” New York Times bestseller (Kirkus Reviews), the author of The Greatest Generation recounts his 2013 cancer diagnosis — and the difficult, surprising year that followed. “It’s impossible not to be inspired” (Los Angeles Times).

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

In Chris Matthews’s New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, “Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy’s soul. Through…

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.

“One of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read” (Jon Stewart): Named an NPR Best Book of the Year, this fascinating New York Times bestseller, penned by a 13-year-old boy, “is an intimate book, one that takes readers right into an autistic mind” (Chicago Tribune).

The daughter at the center of the New York Times bestseller Not Without My Daughter tells her powerful story: After escaping her abusive father in Iran, Mahtob Mahmoody embarked on a triumphant journey to find peace, forgiveness, and freedom from fear.

Queen Elizabeth II and her kin comprise one of the world’s most famous families, but who are they when the cameras are off? This delightful book offers an inside look at the eccentric lives of the Windsors from those who know them best: the royal servants!

At first, the Watchtower Society seemed harmless to William J. Schnell, even valuable as a way to develop his faith…

When King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry an American, Wallis Simpson became one of the most scrutinized and controversial women of her time. “An intriguing slice of history with its centerpiece a royal romance nearly as riveting as the saga of Charles and Diana” (Kirkus Reviews).