Biography

This is the first biography in any language of 'Comrade Prince' D. S. Mirsky (1890-1939),...

Held on June 22, 1938, in Yankee Stadium, the second Louis-Schmeling fight sparked excitement around...

There are few American families that feature such a collection of characters, both heroic and...

Georgia on My Mind, Rockin' Chair, Skylark, Lazybones, and of course the incomparable Star Dust--who...

This is the third and final volume of the complete annotated correspondence of the extraordinary...

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a...

In The Lincoln Enigma, Gabor Boritt invites renowned Lincoln scholars, and rising new voices, to...

In Darwin's Shadow is the gripping story of the heretical British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace...

What motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the...

Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was...

In The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. vividly portrays the grand idealism, heroic bravery,...

The first translation into English of the complete correspondence of the remarkable twelfth-century Benedictine abbess...

Robert Grosseteste (c 1168-1253) was the initiator of the English scientific tradition, one of the...

This book offers an intellectual and spiritual biography of Lesslie Newbigin, a figure of patristic...

In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to...

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and...

If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind...

David Lynn Hall's love of philosophy began with a fifty-cent paperback. Then an adolescent facing...

Hailed by The New York Times as "America's Aristophanes," Will Rogers was one of this...

In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson,...

During his thirty-four year tenure as a Justice of the Supreme Court, Hugo L. Black...

Nietzsche's friend, the philosopher Paul Rée, once said that Nietzsche was more important for his...

It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri,...

In this probing study, Starr covers the whole sweep of imperial Roman history, analyzing the...

Although Thomas E. Watson championed the rising Populist movement at the turn of the 19th...

`To understand this singular man, the reader can do no better than to turn to...

Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein....

As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a...

This is the first literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. It...

The first comprehensive biography of Henry Howard, Poet Earl of Surrey, this influential book fills...

The letters is this volume cover the eighteen months katherine Mansfield spent in England, France,...

The Letters of A. E. Housman is a scholarly edition of over 2200 letters. (The...

Claire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, has never...

In Montaigne's age hardly anyone made a living through writing. This book examines the practical...

This new critical biography of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is the first to appear for more...

Parker's life of Milton has long been accepted as one of the great literary biographies...

This third and final volume of The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, the first collected...

This volume covers a tumultuous period in Yeats's public and personal life, beginning with the...

The letters in this volume, the majority never before published, vividly document a tunultuous period...

The letters in this volume, the majority never before published, vividly document the period in...

rich and distinguished work of scholarship Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener wonderfully edited by John...

This eighth volume presents about 1,500 letters many of them unpublished, from the years 1856...

This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to...

This new edition of The Later Years contains over six hundred letters of William and...