New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)

   Published: 11/14/2012
2. Jean Zimmerman, “Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)

   Published: 11/1/2012
3. Cory MacLauchlin, “Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces” (Da Capo, 2012)

   Published: 9/4/2012
4. Paul Gutjahr, “Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy” (Oxford UP, 2011)

   Published: 8/11/2012
5. Dave Oliphant, “KD: A Jazz Biography” (Wings Press, 2012)

   Published: 8/10/2012
6. Kate Buford, “Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe” (Bison Books, 2012)

   Published: 8/1/2012
7. Anne Sebba, “That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)

   Published: 7/17/2012
8. Elizabeth Goldsmith, “The King’s Mistresses” (PublicAffairs, 2012)

   Published: 6/29/2012
9. Nancy Hargrove, “T.S. Eliot’s Parisian Year” (University of Florida Press, 2010)

   Published: 6/15/2012
10. Sally Bedell Smith, “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch” (Random House, 2012)

    Published: 6/1/2012
11. Gregory McNamee, “The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian” (University of Arizona Press, 2012)

    Published: 5/23/2012
12. Kathryn Lofton, “Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon” (University of California Press, 2011)

    Published: 5/17/2012
13. Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr., “Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind” (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011)

    Published: 5/15/2012
14. Manning Marable, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” (Penguin, 2011)

    Published: 5/1/2012
15. Paul Dickson, “Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick” (Walker & Company, 2012)

    Published: 4/30/2012
16. Robert K. Fitts, “Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)

    Published: 4/23/2012
17. Leslie Brody, “Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford” (Counterpoint Press, 2010)

    Published: 4/16/2012
18. Karen Abbott, “American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee” (Random House, 2012)

    Published: 4/2/2012
19. William Kuhn, “Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books” (Anchor Books, 2011)

    Published: 3/15/2012
20. Robert F. Barsky and Noam Chomsky, “Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism” (MIT Press, 2011)

    Published: 3/7/2012