Självbiografier

Songs My Mother Taught Me

In this memoir, Marlon Brando talks of his struggle to become an actor, of his stage and film career, and of his relationships with actors, producers and directors. He talks candidly of a dislocated childhood and of his driving ambition and relent...

Blonde

In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, i...

The discomfort zone : a personal history

The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's memoir of growing up squirming in his own uber-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," through a strangely happy adolescence, into an adult with strong and inconvenien...

Nothing to Be Frightened of

'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him'. Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and abo...

The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

Startling early autobiography, with over 80 photographs of Dali and his works, and scores of Dali drawings and sketches.

Bob Marley - The Untold Story

What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock'n'roll? How is that he has not only remained the single most successful reggae artist ever, but has also become a shining beacon of radicalism and peace to generati...

The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

This essential companion to The Wheel of Time is for the millions interested in the history and the background of this incredible series - never-before-told legends, previously unknown peoples and lands, exotic beasts, and portents of what may com...

Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz

The "top porn star of all time" ("Adult Video News") dishes the dirt on 20 years of Hollywood scandal, the inner workings of the porn industry, and a life filled with celebrities, gossip, and international fame.

The Pursuit of Happyness

Having grown up with an abusive stepfather who beat his mother and constantly reminded him that his daddy abandoned him, Chris Gardner made himself a promise: I'll never leave my children. It's a vow he's kept, despite a sea of setbacks that would...

Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier - Travels With An African Soldier

Now in paperback, the author of "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" travels into a modern-day "Heart of Darkness."

Irving Penn Regards Issey Miyake

This work springs from the high regard fashion photographer Irving Penn has for has for the Japanese designer, Issey Miyake, who has said that Penn's photographs allow him to see his own designs.

Sharon Tate - The Biography

Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright

No American envoy has ever burst on the diplomatic scene and grabbed center stage in the theater of foreign relations like Madeleine Albright. Navigating difficult terrain as few can, Thomas Blood provides exclusive interviews with, and revealing ...

Love Letters of Great Men

Inspired by the book of love letters Carrie reads aloud to Mr. Big in the blockbuster film "Sex and the City," this gorgeous keepsake volume collects some of the most romantic letters in history, from the private papers of such great men...

Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich - An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-day and the Fall of the Third Reich

Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel.

Wheel Of Life

Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross shot to world fame in 1969 upon publication of her seminal work, "On Death and Dying". Through her many books as well as her years working with terminally ill children, AIDS patients, and the elderly, she brought...

Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story

To many, Tommy Bolin was the legitimate heir to Jimi Hendrix's rock guitar throne. Stints with the James Gang and Deep Purple - as well as solo albums and a groundbreaking release with jazz-rocker Billy Cobham - certainly proved that the adulation...

Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him

Award-winning journalist Nash explores Elvis Presley's complex relationships with women, his sexual identity, and how both informed his art and his life.

Crazy from the Heat

'I was there with these two girls once; they were strippers. They said 'Dave, we'd like you to go upstairs, the two of us, with you'. So I said, 'okay'. It was angus, and it was hot and sweaty and humid, and we commenced to deliver the groceries a...

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir - A Young Woman's Coming-Of-Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac

Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an inst...