Charles Higham Offers a controversial portrait of the debonair actor who inwardly struggled with his homosexuality, detailing his private life and distinguished film career, as well as his world War...

Nancy Milford Biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald July 1, 1971 by Avon

Arthur Mizener Traces the life of Fitzgerald and examines the development of his career as a writer June 1, 1987 by Thames & Hudson

Anthony Burgess Hemingway's great achievement was to free the novel from all the languid decoration and cozy indirectness that was its early twentieth-century inheritance. His terse prose taught the writer...

Mary Lee Settle The multi-award-winning author of The Beulah Quintet recounts her childhood in the Kahawha Valley of West Virginia in the aftermath of World War I, her experiences during...

SB Chrimes Founder of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII was a crucial figure in English history. In this acclaimed study of the king's life and reign, the distinguished historian S....

C David Heymann A long-awaited, unauthorized biography by the author of A Woman Named Jackie draws on more than a thousand interviews to provide a candid, provocative study of Taylor's...

James King This biography explores the relationship between the life and work of Virginia Woolf. The material of her life - her mother's premature death, the sexual abuse by her...

Alexander Masters In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it...

Author: Alan Clark INTO POLITICS begins in 1973 with Clark's selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth (rival candidates included future Conservative luminaries Michael Howard and...

Author: Maylis de Kerangal Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on...

Author: Michael Lewis The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw―over one million copies sold. When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of...