New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Timothy Brennan, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said" (FSG, 2021)

   Published: 1/13/2022
2. Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)

   Published: 1/13/2022
3. Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/12/2022
4. Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)

   Published: 1/11/2022
5. Philip J. Deloria, "Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract" (U Washington Press, 2019)

   Published: 1/10/2022
6. Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, "Wim Wenders: Making Films that Matter" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

   Published: 1/7/2022
7. D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 1/5/2022
8. Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh, "Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

   Published: 1/4/2022
9. Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)

   Published: 12/30/2021
10. Lynn Stephen, "Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas" (Duke UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/29/2021
11. Andrew Roberts, "The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III" (Viking, 2021)

    Published: 12/29/2021
12. Mesfin Tadesse and Ianet Bastyan, "Lucy's People: An Ethiopian Memoir" (Yerada Lij, 2021)

    Published: 12/29/2021
13. Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2021
14. Carolyn Eastman, "The Strange Genius of Mr. O.: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity" (UNC Press, 2021)

    Published: 12/23/2021
15. Michael K. Bourdaghs, "A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature" (Duke UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/22/2021
16. Paul Kidder, "Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 12/22/2021
17. F. Bruce Gordon, "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet" (Yale UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/22/2021
18. Marcia Pally, "From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

    Published: 12/21/2021
19. Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)

    Published: 12/17/2021
20. Julian E. Zelizer, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement" (Yale UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/17/2021