Edward de Vere’s life and letters indicate that he was the true author of the works of Shakespeare. Weaving together ten years of research, this bi...
The first time I heard it, I laughed.Oh, come on, I thought. He didn’t just say that.We were at a restaurant in southern Ohio, where ...
In the mid-seventies, the Sex Pistols, the most controversial rock-and-roll band ever, erupted out of London, offending everyone from members of Pa...
"In each little life we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe."
A literary exploration of the Beats' encounter with India in the 1960s, a journey that inspired and influenced generations of Americans and Indi...
In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America?s edgiest writers look...
The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminu...
AGE ISN’T JUST A NUMBER—IT’S A WAY OF KEEPING SCORE. THIS IS YOUR SCORECARD. The day we turn any age, we become conte...
Advance Praise for A Boy Named Shel
“I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goo...
Novelist and nonfiction writer Pearson (When She Was Bad) was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder at 23 in 1987; she had suffered a ...
For the twice-published novelist, reading an article about herself in the National Enquirer—under the headline "Here's One ...
"I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model ...
We grew up with the same parents in the same castle, but in many ways we each had a moat ...
In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French horn that has been gathering dust in ...
Drawing on rare access to an NFL team?s players, coaches and facilities, the author of The New York Times bestseller Word Freak tr...
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-...
A remarkable and delightful memoir of a life spent in the uppermost circles of acting, politics, and the world
Robert Va...
A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertil...
In this enchanting European version of A Year by the Sea, an artist recalls her liberating sojourn in France during the sixties?and the f...
From the best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul, an intimate look at the daily lives of women, children, and other noncombatants und...