The rise of the Iron Lady, at a suitably epic scale.

The Irish novelist looks back on a life of trails blazed.

Will the life and writing of a lost American genius receive a posthumous second act?

The candid correspondence of a 20th century literary innovator. 

A 1913 exploration of Antarctica takes a death-defying turn.

The revolutionary painter, in the eyes of his contemporaries, was by turns a genius and simpleton.

A novelist reveals the real-life inspiration for his hard-luck fiction.

A deeply sympathetic examination of the Founding Father's paradoxes.

The novelist's correspondence shows a determinedly independent sensibility working patiently at becoming a legend.

Jack Kerouac's journey to the composition of On the Road was long, and filled with detours.

The Senate's champion of segregation endured long after the Dixiecrats were history.

The story of an American artist is also the snapshot of a lost world.

The legendary film star may have been a better actress in private life than she was on the screen.

A new volume of the writer and thinker's journals reveals a mind bent on relentless self-interrogation.

A life of playwright and gadfly Lillian Hellman suggests that her reputation in large part turns on her gender.

The short life of John Kennedy Toole, author of the classic A Confederacy of Dunces. 

A journalist unveils the hidden history of Russia's prime minister.

Scenes from an American family's sojourn in the City of Light, from the author's forthcoming memoir Paris in Love.

An award-winning reporter's "uncompromising and important" new look at daily life in a Mumbai slum.

An unclassifiable musician on a life spent transmuting suffering into music.

The voice! The ego! The drama!

A Hollywood star's inventive legacy.

The jewels, the gowns, the lovers, and the will to power of a remarkable ruler.

Portrait of a restless innovator.

A history of the charming intellectual's role in nailing together the American conservative movement.

A fictionalized account of French poet--and decadent adventurer--Arthur Rimbaud's meteoric career.

A new life of the European aristocrat who became the "Jazz Baroness."

Following a prominent Midwestern clan through generations, and shifting identities.

Following in the footsteps of nineteenth-century Americans in the City of Light.

The fascinating artistry of an 18th century gentlewoman reveals a hidden world of creative expression in paper.