Knopf, October 2020. Hardcover. "Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves . . . A spectacular achievement." --Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the..... More
Harper Perennial, March 1990. Trade Paperback. The controversial and provocative bestseller about intellectuals in history, from Rousseau, Marx, and Tolstoy to Sartre, Noam Chomsky, and Lillian Hellman."Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." "--New York Times Book Review" More
Penguin Classics, October 2020. Paper Back. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful..... More
Harry N. Abrams, April 2018. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to..... More
Clarkson Potter Publishers, October 2020. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today--with beautiful illustrations throughout. "An ebullient celebration of books and reading."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the introduction..... More
Basic Books, October 2020. Paper Back. Who was the real Atticus Finch? A prize-winning historian reveals the man behind the legend The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a...... More
The Dial Press, March 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and "patron saint..... More
Picador, October 2020. Paper Back. Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the..... More
Simon & Schuster, August 2008. First Edition. Cloth. Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In "The Night of the Gun," David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and..... More
Houghton Mifflin, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Exquisite and harrowing." --New York Times Book Review "This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word." --People NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2019 BY NPR * BuzzFeed * Slate * Chicago Public Library * Real..... More
Celadon Books, October 2020. Trade Paperback. Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of..... More
Celadon Books, October 2020. Trade Paperback. Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of..... More
University of Georgia Press, May 2011. Trade Paperback. Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it..... More
