Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.'PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection…No matter the topic,...

A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.'Gellhorn is incapabl...

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMESThis groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollsto...

A startling portrayal of one of America's most significant literary figures that will change the way we view her life and legacy In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amhers...

Award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon presents a startling portrayal of one of America's most significant literary figures that will change the way we view her life and legacy.

Essays by novelist Mary Gordon about her life in the context of the places she has lived or that were important to her, including her grandmother's house, the Catholic church, and the cities of Rome and New York. A New York Times Nota...

Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attac...

An extraordinary collection of pugnacious, charming, and revealing interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who defined and transformed American literature.Hemingway was not only known for his understated style, but for his publ...

“If someone says I’m doing this out of faith, I say, Why don’t you do it out of conviction?” —CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS One of his generation’s greatest public intellectuals, and perhaps its fiercest, Christopher Hitchens was a...

Fifteen years ago, Alice Hoffman received a diagnosis that changed everything about the life she'd been living. Most significant—aside from the grueling physical ordeal she underwent—was the way it changed how she felt inside and ...

In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of s...

"Enlightening, compassionate, superb" —John Le CarreWinner of the  2018 Cundill History PrizeA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017A visionary exploration o...

This unfinished autobiography by Rudyard Kipling offers a glimpse into the author\'s early life, and some of the periods he spent working on his most famous books and poems.\n\n\n\nLittle of this autobiography refers to the private li...

The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate acce...

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the missing longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time."Joe...

"Lipman is always in top form as an essayist." – New York Times Book Review In her two decades of writing, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they're old f...

Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they're old friends. Now she shares an even more intimate world with us - her own - in essays that offer a candid, charming take on m...

In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including 'chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay,' were within her grasp. Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain th...

An "incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend" (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century.Wallace Stevens (...

Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration o...

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography: 'An amazing story [told] with clarity and intelligence...colorful and insightful.'—Martin Rubin, Los Angeles TimesLouisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, th...

The acclaimed New York Times-bestselling biography and "emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) Since his untimely death by suicide at the age of forty-six in 2008, ...

David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to c...

Mary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American Communist Party, and was married to...

Arriving in the United States as a poor, fairly uneducated young man, Frank McCourt became an accomplished English teacher and author. This is the story of his incredible transformation, a follow-up memoir to the Pulitzer Prize-winnin...

A "searing memoir of loss and redemption" (People) that "exposes the side of The Wolf of Wall Street we didn't get to see" (Metro), After Perfect is a cautionary tale about one family's destruction in the wake of t...

Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age...

The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller-the famous playwright of The Crucible, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, and other plays-Timebends reveals Miller's incredible trajectory as a man and a writer.Born in 191...

In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, The Bronte Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte became cultural icons whose ever-changing reputations reflected the obsessions of various eras.When ...

"A winning, nuanced portrait. . . . It seems unlikely we'll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life." —USA TodayTo Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. Yet for the la...