Biography & Autobiography
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In this captivating memoir, novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what it was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Revisiting the world of her childhood, Roiphe brings alive a cast of characters who are both difficult to love and impossible to forget.
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
Call Me Crazy
A beautifully written and evocative memoir of pain and redemption, of hurt and healing, from an actress whose private life and personal choices have made her a household name. "My life is a life movies are made of", wrote Anne Heche in the proposal for her memoir.
Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood
For more than five decades, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town", has chronicled with compassion and acuity the changes in American life - both intimate and universal.
Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times
"I'm still here, still arriving at the White House in the wee hours of the morning, reading the papers and checking the wire, still waiting for the morning briefing, still sitting down to write the first story of the day and still waiting to ask the tough questions.
A Moveable Feast
"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil." Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s.
A Passion to Win
In one of the most fascinating business autobiographies of this or any other year, Sumner Redstone tells the unvarnished story of how he overcame every obstacle to build a vast media and entertainment engine that includes Paramount Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon, Blockbuster, Simon &
An Hour Before Daylight
In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country.
The Napoleon of New York
A look behind the public image of New York City’s most colorful mayor who with his passion, humor, flair, and honesty, has given the city its most caring government in its history.
Pulitzer
This long overdue biography of one of the most monumental figures in publishing history is filled with fascinating stories of the Hungarian immigrant's rise to the pinnacle of American journalism.