New and Notable
Biographies and Memoirs
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And
the Sea Is Never Full : Memoirs 1969 by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator) |
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Knopf Hardcover - 384 pages (December 1999) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews Nobel Prizewinner Wiesel (All Rivers Run to the Sea, 1996, etc.) concludes his memoirs in his characteristically engaging and conversational tone. Wiesel tells us about his marriage to Marion (for the first time, at age forty, I experience daily life with a woman), his frequent meals with Golda Meir... Read more
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Anne
Morrow Lindbergh : Her Life by Susan Hertog |
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Doubleday Books Hardcover - 592 pages (November 30, 1999) (November 30, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Susan Hertog managed to obtain 10 separate interviews with her very private subject (though not access to Anne Morrow Lindbergh's unpublished papers), and her personal involvement shows in every line of this impassioned biography. Hertog's searching account of the Lindbergh marriage explores the... Read more
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Teresa
of Avila : The Progress of a Soul by Cathleen Medwick |
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Knopf Hardcover - 304 pages (December 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Saint Teresa (1515-1582) is widely considered one of the greatest mystics and woman reformers of the Renaissance. Author Cathleen Medwick (a former editor at Vanity Fair and Mirabella) clearly invested an enormous amount of research into this impressive biography of a brazen and complicated woman.... Read more
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The
Messenger : The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad by Karl Evanzz |
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Pantheon Books Hardcover - 656 pages (December 1999) |
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| Amazon.com This well-documented biography by Karl Evanzz of The Washington Post shows how a poor, Georgia-born mulatto preacher and laborman named Elijah Poole, who moved to Detroit in the 1930s to escape the brutality of the South, reinvented himself as the leader of the controversial Nation of Islam. Evanzz... Read more
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Osbert
Sitwell by Philip Ziegler |
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Knopf Hardcover - 464 pages (December 1999) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews From Ziegler (London at War, 1995) comes a seductive and charming biography of Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, infamous English writer and eccentric. In Zieglers hands, Sitwell is lovable, albeit not always likable. Indeed, those who knew him best could not agree on his character. If the... Read more
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Woody
Allen : A Biography by John Baxter |
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Carroll & Graf Hardcover - 512 pages (December 1999) |
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| The Observer "A splendidly written, exhaustive account and a major achievement" Read more
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Lost
in the Funhouse : The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman by Bill Zehme |
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Delacorte Pr Hardcover - 368 pages (November 30, 1999) (November 30, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Bill Zehme's biography of comic actor/performance artist Andy Kaufman (subject of the feature film Man in the Moon) is a meticulously researched, eminently readable, and very strange book--this last being perhaps no surprise given its subject. Written over a six-year period, Lost in the Funhouse is... Read more
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The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Peter Dally |
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VHPS/St. Martins Press Hardcover - 352 pages (December 1999) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews Retired British psychiatrist Dally (The Fantasy Game, 1975) puts Woolf on the couch in this insubstantial psychobiography. Woolf's mental state has always attracted posthumous diagnoses from her literary biographers, and Dally, who has also essayed a psychological portrait of Elizabeth Barrett... Read more
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The
Real James Herriot : The Father I Knew by Jim Wight |
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Ballantine Books (T) Hardcover (March 2000) |
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| Amazon.com The name Alf Wight may not ring too many bells, but as James Herriot--the author who brought the British countryside into millions of homes--Wight certainly made an impressive mark. He grew up in Glasgow and enjoyed a boisterous childhood before deciding to embark on many years of training at the... Read more
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Edith's
Story by Edith Velmans, Edith Velmans-Van Hessen |
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Soho Press, Inc. Hardcover - 240 pages 1 Us Ed edition (December 1999) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews This significant Holocaust memoir of a girl hiding in Holland will be compared to Anne Frank's diary, though it is very different. Yes, Edith went into hiding in the same city and same month as Anne Frank, and her mother even met Miep Gies, who hid the Franks. But while the Frank diary took decades... Read more
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Joseph
McCarthy : Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated
Senator by Arthur Herman |
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Free Press Hardcover - 368 pages (December 1999) |
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| Amazon.com "Today [Joseph McCarthy] exists in most people's imagination almost solely as an established icon of evil," writes biographer Arthur Herman. His very name has become an epithet: McCarthyism. Yet Herman believes it's time to reexamine the legacy, and in a brave, eponymously titled biography, he... Read more
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Memories
of the Great & the Good by Alistair Cooke |
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Arcade Pub Hardcover - 277 pages (October 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Alistair Cooke writes in the preface to this collection of 23 biographical sketches, "Most of these pieces tend to find, and rejoice in, what is best about their subjects." That is not to say that the distinguished British print and broadcast journalist (resident for many years in America) is... Read more
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Einstein's
Daughter : The Search for Lieserl by Michelle Zackheim, Michele Zackheim |
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Riverhead Books Hardcover - 432 pages (November 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Albert Einstein met Mileva Mari at Zurich's Polytechnikum, where they were both physics students. Shortly thereafter, in 1902, she secretly gave birth to their daughter, Lieserl, at her parents' home in a small Serbian village. Although the couple married a year later (and divorced in 1919), they... Read more
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Baby
Precious Always Shines : Selected Love Notes Between Gertrude Stein and
Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, et al |
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St Martins Pr (Trade) Hardcover - 160 pages (December 1999) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews The domestic correspondence between Mr. Cuddle-Wuddle (Stein) and Baby Precious (Toklas) reveals the inner hearts and inner workings of the 20th century's most famous lesbian marriage. Over their 39 years together, Stein and Toklas left little notes to each other, snippets of poetry and passion... Read more
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