Biography & Memoir
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Lives That Changed the Conversation
Stories in focus, from artists and musicians to revolutionaries and truth-tellers.
“Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.” ― Kim Gordon, Girl in a BandExplore the collection
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The Anthony Bourdain Reader -
It's Only Drowning by David Litt -
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated -
Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson -
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler -
When Trees Testify by Beronda L. Montgomery -
The Making Of A Miracle: U.S. Olympic Hockey Team -
Mr. Hockey by Gordie Howe -
King: A Life -
The Game by Ken Dryden -
The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey -
Mark Rothko -
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck -
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li -
Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself -
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York -
Homework by Geoff Dyer -
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel -
Indignity by Lea Ypi -
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry -
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life -
The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters