Biography & Autobiography - Artists, Architects, Photographers

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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

David Michaelis

Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of th...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2007

No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental ...

Janice Dickinson

She wasn't just a model. She was a supermodel. In the 1970s—before her star turns on the The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency and America's Next Top Model—Janice Dickinson was the lush-lipped, long-stemmed, dark-eyed brunette who ...

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Published: Oct 2009

Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Mo...

Christopher Zara

Great art comes from great pain.Or that's the impression left by the haunting profiles in Tortured Artists, which examines the maladies that drive creative types to the brink of despair and the inspired works that are born from their ...

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Published: Mar 2012

Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, an...

Laurie Perry

If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Cr...

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Published: Oct 2007

The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love, ...

Steve Turner

Describes the life and career of the country music singer, following Cash on his journey from the hardscrabble cotton fields of Arkansas, through his brushes with the law and sometimes turbulent personal life, to rise to the heights o...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2005

Levels of Life (Vintage International...

Julian Barnes

An NPR Best Book of the YearA Daily Candy Best Book of the YearJulian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and...

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Published: Jul 2014

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in L...

Virginia Nicholson

They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often d...

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Published: Mar 2005

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

This thorough collection of van Gogh's letters has been assembled with an artful eye and sensitivity to the artist's thinking. The result is an atypical take on Vincent van Gogh that avoids putting too much stress on his troubled ment...

Paperback
Published: Mar 1998

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

The #1 New York Times Bestseller"A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it."—The New Yorker"Vigorous, insightful."—The Washington Post"A...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2017

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, ...

Martin Gayford

From October to December of 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a yellow house in the south of France with Vincent van Gogh. They were the odd couple of the art worldone calm, the other volatileand the denouement of their living arrangement was...

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Published: May 2008

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Ray Charles

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he reveals his story unsparingly, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic l...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2005

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of exper...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2006

Elvis Presley: The Man, the Life, the...

Pamela Clarke Keogh

That voice, those eyes, that hair, the cars, the girls—Elvis Presley revolutionized American pop culture. "His appearance on Ed Sullivan ripped the 1950s in half," writes the author. Keogh examines Elvis's life and style t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2005

You Must Change Your Life: The Story ...

Rachel Corbett

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke―then a struggling poet in Germany―went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his t...

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Published: Oct 2017

Captain Beefheart: The Biography

Mike Barnes

Here is the real story of the cult figure known as one of modern music's true innovators.  Following Don Van Vliet's death, Mike Barnes reassesses his legacy through new interview material and with reference to reports and eulogies t...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2011

The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His...

Mary Blume

A sparkling life of the monumental fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Cristóbal Balenciaga was, said Christian Dior, "the master of us all.&quo...

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Published: Feb 2014

Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life

Lisa Chaney

The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle "Coco' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential designer. Her extraordinary and unconventional j...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2012

Francisco Goya: Life and Times

Evan S. Connell

From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Son of the Morning Star and Deus Lo Volt! , a biography that breaks the mold--recounting with stunning immediacy the dark genius behind the renowned Spanish painter. Goya's prot...

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Published: Mar 2005

Yes You Can Make Money as an Arti$t

Mr Warren Cullar

Warren Cullar couldn't spell, write or type and struggled through school. He was declared incapable of achieving success by those who “knew”. Discover the two gifts his father gave him that changed his life. One of the gifts broug...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio De Chirico

No Italian painter of this century has aroused so much comment, from eulogy to outright condemnation, as Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). One of the initiators of surrealism, he is a key figure in modern art; his influence on later pai...

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Published: Apr 1994

The White Road: Journey into an Obses...

Edmund de Waal

An extraordinary blend of narrative history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with Amber EyesIn The White Road, artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate portrait of his ...

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Published: Nov 2016

A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing N...

Donald Hall

Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall's final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh‑out‑loud funny."* *(New York Times)"Why should a ...

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Published: Apr 2019

Frank Lloyd Wright (Lives)

ADA Louise Huxtable

From the way we build to the way we live, Frank Lloyd Wright's influence on American architecture is visible all around us. Now, Ada Louise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize- winning architecture writer for The Wall Street Journal-and chie...

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Published: Apr 2008

Blood And Champagne: The Life And Tim...

Alex Kershaw

Robert Capa, one of the finest photojournalists and combat photographers of the twentieth century, covered every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the early conflict in Vietnam. Always close to the action, he created some o...

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Published: Jun 2004

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Ar...

Olivia Laing

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism#1 Book of the Year from Brain PickingsNamed a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publisher's Weekly, and Lit HubA dazzling wor...

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Published: Mar 2017

Her: A Memoir

Christa Parravani

Raised up from poverty by a determined single mother, gifted and beautiful twin sisters Christa and Cara Parravani were able to create a private haven of splendor and amusement that they shared between themselves. They earned their wa...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2014

Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles

Francine Prose

Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed-stre...

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Published: Feb 2010

My Art, My Life: An Autobiography

Diego Rivera

A richly revealing document offering many telling insights into the mind and heart of a giant of 20th-century art. 'There is no lack of exciting material. A lover at nine, a cannibal at 18, by his own account, Rivera was prodigiously ...

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Published: Jan 1992

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and t...

Sue Roe

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the vibrant figures who invented modernist art in bohemian Paris at the dawn of the twentieth century  When the young Pablo Picasso first arrived in Paris in 1900, the most progressiv...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2016

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships,...

Sebastian Smee

Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are h...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2016
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