An intimate inside look at the mind of Georges Simenon, immortalized here in his journals.In the 1960s, Simenon bought three leather-bound journals, planning to leave a record of his life and career f
Suzanne Guillette was twenty-nine and the proud owner of a freshly inked MFA when she began to work on her first book—a collection of embarrassing moments gathered from family, friends, coworkers, and
Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santia
Presenting the amazing Harry Kellar! The first magician to receive international fame! The most well-known illusionist at the turn of the twentieth century! The model for the Wizard of Oz! Author Gail
The darkest Batman is unmasked.During the London press junket for The Dark Knight in the summer of 2008, Christian Bale was infamously accused of assaulting his mother and sister at the five-star Dorc
In this shocking New York Times bestselling memoir, La Toya Jackson pays heartfelt tribute to her legendary brother Michael’s tortured soul and offers unprecedented insight into the troubled entertain
After two earlier autobiographical works—Clear Pictures and A Whole New Life—acclaimed writer Reynolds Price offers a full account of his life from the mid-1950s to the publication of his first novel
Despite his struggle with a crippling shyness and sense of inadequacy, exacerbated by the stammer that was the focus of the Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech , George VI rose to challenges before h
Leila Ahmed grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and '50s in a family that was eagerly and passionately political. Although many in the Egyptian upper classes were firmly opposed to change, the Ahmeds were p
"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the WayFirst published in 1978, Jack'
In anticipation of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, a book filled with rare photographs from the archives of The Daily Mail covers the life of Queen Elizabeth from birth, childhood the war years to
An incisive portrait of the notorious German dictator reveals disturbingly normal personality traits behind his mythologized character, discussing how he was an emotional, romantic individual whose ma
How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times—the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A tale
Winner of the 2011 CASEY Award from Spitball Magazine Seventy baseball seasons ago, on a May afternoon at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a hard single to leftfield. It was the quiet beginning to t
Right on time for election season comes an updated biography of our 44th President—written just for kids!President Barack Obama’s election in 2008 energized the United States and the world. And though
At the 1948 Olympics in London, members of the U.S. Women’s Track and Field team went down to defeat one by one. Any hope of winning rested on Alice Coachman. Thousands of spectators stayed late for t
How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls “the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Levy,” easily the best-known “thinker” under sixty in France? “It would,” he continues, “be difficult to imagine a