New Books in Biography

1663 Episodes

1. Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/28/2024
2. Adam Lazarus, "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" (Citadel Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/27/2024
3. Brent M. Rogers, "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/24/2024
4. David Ostrowsky, "Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

   Published: 3/22/2024
5. Paul Bew, "Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 3/22/2024
6. Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/21/2024
7. Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/18/2024
8. The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

   Published: 3/18/2024
9. Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

   Published: 3/17/2024
10. Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/12/2024
11. Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

    Published: 3/9/2024
12. Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/8/2024
13. Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/7/2024
14. Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)

    Published: 3/7/2024
15. The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You

    Published: 3/7/2024
16. Jessica Hooten Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor's 'Why Do the Heathen Rage?' A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress" (Brazos Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/5/2024
17. Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/4/2024
18. Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/3/2024
19. Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)

    Published: 2/28/2024
20. Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)

    Published: 2/27/2024