Subject search:Biography

- Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, by Herself

by Nell Kimball
Ebook, 2025
Tags
autobiography, NYRB Classics
Collection
Wishlist_SW
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman

by Hannah Arendt
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Germany, Jewish history, biography, political philosophy, NYRB Classics, e-only
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
838.6

The Life of Henry Brulard

by Stendhal
Paperback, 2002
Tags
French literature, fiction, autobiography, NYRB Classics, e-only
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
843.7

Instead of a Letter

by Diana Athill
Paperback, 2023
Tags
English literature, autobiography, NYRB Classics, e-only, non-NYRB
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
828.91409

The Story of a Life

by Konstantin Paustovsky
Paperback, 2023
Tags
Russian literature, autobiography, NYRB Classics, e-only
Collection
Your library
Series
Story of a Life (Omnibus)
Status
Available
Call number
891.7342

The Gordon File: A Screenwriter Recalls Twenty Years of FBI Surveillance

by Bernard Gordon
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
screenwriting, film, e-only
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
791.43

John C. Calhoun: American Portrait

by Margaret L. Coit
Paperback, 1991
Tags
American history, history, biography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
923.273

Samurai and Silk

by Haru Reischauer
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Japan, samurai, biography, memoir
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
952.03

Introducing Walter Benjamin

by Howard Caygill
Paperback, 1998
Tags
philosophy, German philosophy, cultural studies, biography, graphic novel
Collection
Your library
Series
Introducing...
Status
Available
Call number
193

A History of Freedom

by J. Rufus Fears
DVD, 1999
Tags
freedom, history, world history, philosophy, intellectual history, Great Courses, {WondriumNo}, {TGCyes}
Collection
Wishlist_GC
Series
The Great Courses (480), The Great Courses: Philosophy and Intellectual History (480)
Status
Available
Call number
323

- Conversations of Socrates

by Xenophon
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Greek philosophy, philosophy, Greek literature, Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
183.2

- The Portable Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin
Paperback, 2006
Tags
portable
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
973.3

- Into the Past

by Phillip Valentine Tobias
Paperback, 2005
Tags
human evolution, paleontology, autobiography, known
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
509.2

The Works of James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson (Abridged)

by James Boswell
Hardcover, 1952
Tags
English literature, biography, Black's Readers Service
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
828.609

- Roots

by Alex Haley
Paperback, 1980
Tags
American history, history, historical fiction, slavery, biography, genealogy, racism, African-American
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
929.20973

- Muhammad

by Maxime Rodinson
Paperback, 2021
Tags
NYRB Classics, Islam, biography, e-only, non-NYRB
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
297.63

- Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World

by Louis Fischer
Paperback, 2010
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 2, India, biography, philosophy
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
954.03

Germs: A Memoir of Childhood

by Richard Wollheim
Paperback, 2021
Tags
NYRB Classics, philosophy, English literature, memoir, coming of age, e-only
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
192

Dance To The Piper

by Agnes De Mille And Joan Acocella
Paperback, 2016
Tags
NYRB Classics, dance, autobiography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
792.8092

Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin

by Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback, 2010
Tags
NYRB Classics, South America, journalism, Chile, e-only, non-NYRB
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
983.064

- Images and Shadows: Part of a Life

by Iris Origo
Paperback, 2019
Tags
NYRB Classics, autobiography, Italy, memoir
Collection
Wishlist_SW
Status
Available
Call number
818.5209

- Le Corbusier: Architect, Painter, Poet

by Jean Jenger
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Gallimard, architecture, painting, art, biography
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
709.2

- The Pre-Raphaelites: Romance and Realism

by Laurence Des Cars Illustrator
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Gallimard, art, art history, painting
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
709.4209034

- Rembrandt: Substance and Shadow

by Pascal Bonafoux
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Gallimard, biography, art, art history
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
759.9492

- Lewis Carroll in Wonderland: The Life and Times of Alice and Her Creator

by Stephanie Lovett Stoffel
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Gallimard, English literature, biography
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
828.809

- Cleopatra: The Life and Death of a Pharaoh

by Edith Flamarion
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Gallimard, history, Egypt, biography
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
932.02092

Renoir: A Sensuous Vision

by Anne Distel
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Gallimard, art, painting, biography, art history, {check this}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
759.4

Gauguin: The Quest for Paradise

by Françoise Cachin
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Gallimard, art, painting, biography, art history, {check this}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
759.4

- Making It

by Norman Podhoretz
Paperback, 2017
Tags
NYRB Classics, American literature, autobiography, literary criticism, intellectual history
Collection
Wishlist_SW
Status
Available
Call number
818.5

Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three

by David Plante
Paperback, 2017
Tags
NYRB Classics, American literature, biography, literary criticism, memoir, women
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell
Hardcover, 1964
Tags
American literature, fiction, epic, American South, International Collectors Library
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives

by Diane Johnson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
NYRB Classics, English literature, biography, e-only
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

The Kindness of Strangers

by Salka Viertel
Paperback, 2019
Tags
NYRB Classics, autobiography, Hollywood, German literature, e-also
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
812.52

Family Lexicon

by Natalia Ginzburg
Paperback, 2017
Tags
NYRB Classics, Italian literature, autobiography, e-only
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
853.912

- Life with Picasso

by Francoise Gilot
Paperback, 2019
Tags
NYRB Classics, memoir, art history, biography, painting
Collection
Wishlist_SW
Status
Available
Call number
927.5

Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi

by Howard E. Gardner
Paperback, 1994
Tags
psychology, creativity, intelligence, genius, biography, education
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
370

Really the Blues

by Mezz Mezzrow
Paperback, 2016
Tags
American literature, autobiography, jazz, NYRB Classics, e-only, non-NYRB
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
788.6

Machiavelli in Context

by William R. Cook
Streaming video, 2006
Tags
philosophy, political philosophy, politics, history, Great Courses, {WondriumNo}, {TGCyes}
Collection
Wishlist_GC
Series
The Great Courses (4311), The Great Courses: Philosophy and Intellectual History (4311)
Status
Available
Call number
320.1

Francis of Assisi

by William R. Cook
Streaming video, 2000
Tags
Christianity, church history, Great Courses, {WondriumNo}, {TGCyes}
Collection
Wishlist_GC
Series
The Great Courses (615), The Great Courses: Religion and Theology (615)
Status
Available
Call number
271.3

The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-23

by Franz Kafka
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin Modern Classics, German literature, Czech literature, {check this}
Collection
Your library
Series
Diaries of Franz Kafka (1-2)
Status
Available
Call number
838.91203

Skyward: The Lakeside Classics

by Richard Evelyn Byrd
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
exploration, Arctic, autobiography, other classics series, travel writing
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
629.13092

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Ireland, poverty, memoir, addiction
Collection
Your library
Series
Frank McCourt's Memoirs (1)
Status
Available
Call number
929.20899162073

- Andrew Johnson and the Uses of Constitutional Power

by James E. Sefton
Paperback, 1980
Tags
American history, history, biography
Collection
Wishlist
Series
Library of American Biography
Status
Available
Call number
973.8

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

by Hunter S. Thompson
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
American literature, journalism, essays, Modern Library Classics
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
070.92

Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here

by Joseph Heller
Paperback, 1999
Tags
American literature, autobiography, World War II, history
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2007
Tags
autobiography, humor
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
910.4092

The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
essays, inspirational, memoir, self-help, autobiography, death
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
004.092

Ginsberg: A Biography

by Barry Miles
Paperback, 1990
Tags
American literature, poetry, biography, beat
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
811.54

Voltaire in Love

by Nancy Mitford
Paperback, 2012
Tags
France, biography, English literature, NYRB Classics
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813

Frederick the Great

by Nancy Mitford
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Germany, biography, NYRB Classics, history
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
943.053092
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