Genre search:Biography

True : the four seasons of Jackie Robinson

by Kostya Kennedy
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Robinson Jackie 1919-1972., Baseball players, African Americans -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
796.357 ROBINSON Kennedy

My life in full : work, family, and our future

by Indra K. Nooyi
Paper Book, 2021
Tags
Nooyi Indra 1955-, Women executives -- India -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
338.761 NOOYI Nooyi

Anya Seton : a writing life.

by Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan
Paper Book, 2020
Tags
Authors -- Connecticut -- Greenwich, Authors American -- 20th Century -- Biography, Women authors -- Connecticut -- Greenwich.
Status
Available
Call number
813.54 SETON MacKethan

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the dawn of the modern woman.

by Sam Wasson
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Motion picture), Hepburn Audrey 1929-1993.
Status
Available
Call number
791.4372 Wasson

Capote : a biography.

by Gerald Clarke
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
Capote Truman 1924-1984, Authors, American -- 20th Century -- Biography, Authors -- Connecticut -- Greenwich
Status
Available
Call number
813.54 CAPOTE Clarke

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790.
Book, 1916
Tags
Special collection., United States -- Biography., Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.3092 FRANKLIN Franklin

Guide to historic artists' homes & studios

by Valerie A. Balint
Paperback, 2020
Tags
Artists' studios, Architecture Domestic -- United States, Bush-Holley House (Cos Cob Conn.)
Status
Available
Call number
709.7 Balint

Creating Family Archives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Saving Your Memories for Future Generations

by Margot Note
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Family archives -- Handbooks manuals etc., Personal archives -- Handbooks manuals etc, Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Handbooks manuals etc., Preservation of materials -- Handbooks manuals etc., Genealogy., Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration, Family archives., Personal archives., Preservation of materials.
Status
Available
Call number
929.1 Note

Truman Capote : in which various friends, enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career

by George Plimpton
Paper Book, 1997
Tags
Capote Truman 1924-1984 -- Friends and Associates, Capote Truman 1924-1984, Authors American -- 20th Century -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
813.54 CAPOTE Plimpton

A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation.

by David W. Blight
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Washington John. 1838-1918., Turnage Wallace 1846-1916., Fugitive slaves -- Biography., United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865., African Americans -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
973.71 Blight

Hetty : the genius and madness of America's first female tycoon.

by Charles Slack
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Green Hetty Howland Robinson 1835-1916., Businesswomen, Securities industry -- United States., Wall Street (New York N.Y.) -- History., Women capitalists and financiers -- Biography., Millionaires -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
332.092 GREEN Slack

Street gang : the complete history of Sesame Street

by Michael Davis, 1952-
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Sesame Street (Television program), Children's television programs
Status
Available
Call number
791.4372 SESAME Davis

A skating life.

by Dorothy Hamill
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Hamill Dorothy., Women figure skaters -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
796.912 HAMIL Hamil

Boss Tweed : the rise and fall of the corrupt politician who conceived the soul of modern New York.

by Kenneth D. Ackerman
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
Tweed William Marcy 1823-1878., Politicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography., Tweed Ring., Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century., New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- To 1898.
Status
Available
Call number
974.7104 TWEED Ackerman

Ernest Thompson Seton : the life and legacy of an artist and conservationist

by David L. Witt, 1951-
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Seton Ernest Thompson 1860-1946., Naturalists -- Biography. Naturalists -- Canada -- Biography., Artists -- Biography, Artists -- Canada -- Biography, Animals in art -- Exhibitions, New Mexico History Museum -- Exhibitions., Seton Ernest Thompson 1860-1946 -- Exhibitions.
Status
Available
Call number
574.092 SETON Witt

Connecticut signer : William Williams.

by Bruce P. Stark
Paper Book, 1975
Tags
Williams William 1731-1811.
Series
Connecticut Bicentennial Series (XII)
Status
Available
Call number
974.602 Connecticut v.12

Rage for fame : the ascent of Clare Boothe Luce.

by Sylvia Jukes Morris
Paper Book, 1997
Tags
Luce Clare Boothe 1903-1987., Ambassadors -- Biography, Legislators -- Biography., Dramatists American -- 20th century -- Biography., Journalists -- Biography., Greenwich (Conn.) -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.9109 LUCE Morris

Brethren by nature : New England Indians, colonists, and the origins of American slavery

by Margaret Ellen Newell
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Indian slaves -- New England -- History., Slavery -- New England -- History., Indians of North America -- New England., New England -- Race relations.
Status
Available
Call number
974.004 Newell

Tunney : boxing's brainiest champ and his upset of the great Jack Dempsey.

by Jack Cavanaugh
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
Tunney Gene 1897-1978., Boxers (Sports) -- Biography, Lauder family.
Status
Available
Call number
796.83 TUNNEY Cavanaugh

Encounters : a lifetime spent crossing cultural frontiers.

by Nancy Keeney Forster
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Forster Cliff 1924-2006., Diplomats -- United States -- Biography., United States Information Agency -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
327.73 FORSTER Forster

Up and over : a memoir of Joe Dowling.

by Alyssa Shirley Morein
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Dowling Joe 1939-, Athletes -- United States -- Biography, Athletes with disabilities -- United States -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
796.092 DOWLING Morein

Party of the century : the fabulous story of Truman Capote and his black and white ball

by Deborah Davis, 1952-
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
Plaza Hotel (New York N.Y.) -- History., Capote Truman 1924-1984 -- Friends and Associates, Capote Truman 1924-1984, Authors American -- 20th Century -- Biography, New York (N.Y.) -- Social Life and Customs -- 20th Century., Balls (Parties) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th Century
Status
Available
Call number
813.54 CAPOTE Davis

Abigail Adams : a biography.

by Phyllis Lee Levin
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
Adams Abigail 1744-1818, Adams John 1735-1826, Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.44 ADAMS Levin

Playing right field : a Jew grows in Greenwich.

by George Tabb
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Tabb George., Jews -- Connecticut -- Greenwich -- Biography., Punk rock musicians -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
782.4216 TABB Tabb

Little man in a big hurry : the life of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, uranium king and art collector.

by Gene Hirshhorn LePere, 1926-
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Biography, Jews -- Latvia -- Biography., Local author., Hirshhorn Joseph H. 1899-1981., Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
709.2 HIRSHHORN LePere

Olive Thomas : the life and death of a silent film beauty.

by Michelle Vogel
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Thomas Olive 1898-1920., Thomas Olive 1898-1920 -- Death and burial., Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
791.4302 THOMAS Vogel

Too brief a treat : the letters of Truman Capote ; edited by Gerald Clarke.

by Truman Capote, 1924-1984.
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Capote Truman 1924-1984 -- Correspondence, Authors American -- 20th Century -- Correspondence
Status
Available
Call number
813.54 CAPOTE Capote

Insubordinate spirit : a true story of life and loss in earliest America, 1610-1665

by Missy Wolfe
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
Hallett Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake 1610 -- approximately 1668., Greenwich (Conn.) -- History -- 17th century., Greenwich (Conn.) -- Biography., Women -- Connecticut -- Greenwich -- Biography., Connecticut -- Genealogy.
Status
Available
Call number
974.6908 HALLETT Wolfe

American empress : the life and times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

by Nancy Rubin Stuart, 1944-
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
Post Marjorie Merriweather., Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
361.74092 POST Rubin

Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45

by Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim) 1912-1989 Tuchman
Book, 1971
Tags
World War 1939-1945 -- China., United States -- Foreign relations -- China., China -- Foreign relations -- United States, Stilwell Joseph Warren 1883-1946.
Status
Available
Call number
951.04 STILWELL Tuchman

The first American women architects

by Sarah Allaback, 1965-
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Women architects -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries., Architects -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Status
Available
Call number
720.92 Allaback

The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists

by Ann Lee Morgan
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Art American -- Dictionaries, Artists -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Status
Available
Call number
709.7 Morgan

The other Mrs. Kennedy : Ethel Skakel Kennedy : an American drama of power, privilege, and politics.

by Jerry Oppenheimer
Paper Book, 1994
Tags
Kennedy Ethel 1928-, Kennedy Robert F 1925-1968., Politicians' spouses -- United States -- Biography., Greenwich (Conn.) -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.922 KENNEDY Oppenheimer

Haywire.

by Brooke Hayward
Paper Book, 1977
Tags
Hayward family.
Status
Available
Call number
792.092 HAYWARD Hayward

The time of my life : sixty fulfilling years as a congregational rabbi

by Hillel E. Silverman
Paper Book, 2009
Status
Available
Call number
296.8 SILVERMAN Silverman

More than petticoats : remarkable Connecticut women.

by Antonia Petrash
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Women -- Connecticut -- Biography., Women -- Connecticut -- History., Connecticut -- Biography.
Series
More Than Petticoats
Status
Available
Call number
305.4 Petrash

The colonial clergy and the colonial churches of New England

by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1895-1966
Paper Book, 1936
Tags
Clergy -- New England -- Biography., Church buildings -- New England -- History., New England -- Biography.
Series
Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy.; Publications
Status
Available
Call number
280.4 Weis

Guide to genealogical and biographical sources for New York City (Manhattan) 1783-1898.

by Rosalie Fellows Bailey, 1908-
Paper Book, 1954
Tags
Registers of births etc. -- New York (State) -- New York -- Bibliography., Manuscripts -- New York (State) -- New York -- Guidebooks., New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy -- Bibliography., New York (N.Y.) -- Biography -- Bibliography., New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography.
Status
Available
Call number
929.1 Bailey

A biography of Mrs. Marty Mann : the first lady of Alcoholics Anonymous

by Sally Brown, 1923-
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
Mann Marty 1904-, Women alcoholics -- United States -- Biography., Alcoholics Anonymous -- History, National Council on Alcoholism -- History.
Status
Available
Call number
362.292 MANN Brown

The old leather man : historical accounts of a Connecticut and New York legend

by Dan W. Deluca
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Tramps -- New England -- History -- Sources., New England -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
Status
Available
Call number
305.5 DeLuca

Leopold Eidlitz : architecture and idealism in the Gilded Age

by Kathryn E. Holliday
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Eidlitz Leopold 1823-1908., Architects -- United States -- Biography, Eidlitz Leopold 1823-1908 -- Catalogs.
Status
Available
Call number
720.92 EIDLITZ Holliday

Wallace Nutting and the invention of old America

by Thomas Andrew Denenberg, 1967-
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
Nutting Wallace 1861-1941., Colonial revival (Art) -- United States., Photographers -- United States -- Biography., Furniture -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Status
Available
Call number
770.92 NUTTING Denenberg

The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens.

by Lincoln Steffens, 1866-1936.
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
Special collection., Steffens Lincoln 1866-1936., Journalists -- United States -- Biography., Journalists -- Biography., Authors -- Connecticut -- Greenwich
Status
Available
Call number
071.092 STEFFENS Steffens

Willa Cather : the emerging voice.

by Sharon O'Brien
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
Cather Willa 1873-1947 -- Biography, Novelists American -- 20th century -- Biography., Women and literature -- United States -- 20th century., Authors -- Connecticut -- Greenwich, Authors American -- 20th Century -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
813.52 CATHER O'Brien

Long Island landscapes and the women who designed them

by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Landscape architects -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Biography., Women landscape architects -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Biography., Landscape architecture -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- History -- 20th century.
Status
Available
Call number
712.092 Zaitzevsky

Slaves of central Fairfield County, Connecticut : the journey from slave to freeman in nineteenth-century Connecticut.

by Daniel Cruson
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Slavery -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- History., Slaves -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Biography., Slaves -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Social life and customs., African Americans -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Social life and customs, African Americans -- Connecticut, Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Race relations., Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Rural conditions., Fairfield County (Conn.) -- Politics and government., Antislavery movements -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- History, Underground Railroad -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County.
Status
Available
Call number
326.9746 Cruson

The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States.

by John Marshall, 1755-1835.
Paper Book, 1926
Tags
Special collection., Washington George 1732-1799., Presidents -- United States -- Biography., United States -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775., Generals -- United States -- Biography.
Status
Available
Call number
973.41 WASHINGTON Marshall

Stanford White : decorator in opulence and dealer in antiquities

by Wayne Craven
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
White Stanford 1853-1906., Interior decorators -- United States -- Biography., Antique dealers -- United States -- Biography
Status
Available
Call number
747.092 STANFORD Craven

Elsie De Wolfe : the birth of modern interior decoration.

by Penny Sparke
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
De Wolfe Elsie 1865-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation., Interior decoration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Status
Available
Call number
747.092 DE WOLFE Sparke

The world of Hannah Heaton : the diary of an eighteenth-century New England farm woman.

by Hannah Heaton, 1721-1793.
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
Heaton Hannah 1721-1793 -- Diaries., Christian biography -- Connecticut -- North Haven -- Diaries., Dissenters., Religious -- Connecticut -- North Haven -- Diaries.
Status
Available
Call number
277.4 Heaton
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