Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

Chronicling everything from her Tony Award–winning stage performances to her relationship with fellow Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall’s captivating memoir is written with “an intimacy that’s sure to engage legions of readers” (Booklist). With over 1,200 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

When American Virginia Hall joined the British Special Operations Executive, she was deployed to occupied France — and soon became one of the Allies’ most useful spies. This “riveting” account (Publishers Weekly) shares a suspenseful slice of World War II history.

In this “beautifully written, deeply felt” National Book Award finalist (Los Angeles Times) in the tradition of A River Runs Through It, a man recalls his childhood in western Montana. “Engrossing and moving” (Time).

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle…

A raw, searching memoir with “fizzy humor and epiphanic poignancy” (Publishers Weekly): After a yearslong problematic relationship with alcohol, the author of Running with Scissors checked into rehab. This New York Times bestseller has nearly 32,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of…

FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the…

A mother tells the story of her daughter’s tragic life and death in this riveting account of Nancy Spungen — the girlfriend of musician Sid Vicious and an eventual murder victim. “Honest and moving… Her painful tale is engrossing” (The Washington Post).

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Bestselling historian Alison Weir tells the poignant, suspenseful and sometimes tragic story of Elizabeth, eldest…

In this classic New York Times bestseller from an author who was “blessed with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch” (The Boston Globe), city folks move to the suburbs — and chaos ensues. A “marvelously funny” memoir (Vogue) with over 4,300 five-star ratings on Goodreads!