Biography & Memoirs

In his second volume of the biography of Miguel de Cervantes, professor José Manuel Lucía Megías places Cervantes on his return from captivity in Algiers, making a living as an officer of the court. He acted as a discreet messenger in Oran, a tax...

Fidel Castro is one of the most overwhelming and Machiavellian political personalities of his generation. He will undoubtedly be remembered by part of the Cuban people and the world as a whole, for his years of autocratic and dictatorial government. / Fidel Castro, una...

Viv Albertine is a pioneer. As lead guitarist and songwriter for the seminal band The Slits, she influenced a future generation of artists including Kurt Cobain and Carrie Brownstein. In Clothes, Clothes, Clothes.., Albertine delivers a unique and unfiltered look at a traditionally male-dominated scene....

The figure of general Pablo Morillo has oscillated between oblivion and hatred. A relegated hero of Spanish history that overcame his humble origins due to his enormous value. His career and biography are critical to understanding the whole history of that time, especially dispelling...

When feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father?long estranged and living in Hungary?had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her on an extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga....

Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. / Habla,...

The Earth could be illuminated with free electricity and without wires! Nikola Tesla knew how. The most important inventions for the development of humanity (electricity, radar, radio, etc.) as we know it today have a forgotten father, Nikola Tesla. Discover his fascinating life through...

This very personal cartography includes disconcerting characters and enigmatic writers; the filmmaker Lucrecia Martel; Onetti's last wife; the singer-songwriter Facundo Cabral; the Argentinean editor Daniel Divinsky... the author proposes in each portrait a total immersion in the universe of a creator. The book is...

Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 90s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary musicians, but it wasn’t long before he found his way into the dark underbelly of the City of Angels. I Forgot to Die is...

A moral, historical and political analysis of Seneca, beginning with his family origins in Cordoba and making his thought public through his treatises. An essential book for those who want to know how a man who was born in the most remote lands of...

Silvina Ocampo is one of the most exquisite, talented figures of literature in Spanish. The meaning behind much of her work is a mystery; similarly, very little is known about her private life. In this book, Mariana Enriquez looks intensely at the life of...

In 1994, journalist Claudia de Icaza published a book about Luis Miguel, which was taken to court by the singer in order to ban its publication. Years later, the court ruled in favor of the journalist, who today, 24 years later, corrects and expands...

Laurence Debray is the daughter of the philosopher Régis Debray and the historian Elizabeth Burgos. Her parents came from wealthy families, and both embraced the revolutionary cause of Castro. In this sincere book, Laurence Debray tells the myth and truth of her revolutionary parents...

Through rigorous research and exclusive access to Capone’s family, Deirdre Bair cuts through the mythology, uncovering a complex character who was flawed and cruel but also capable of nobility. At once intimate and iconoclastic, Al Capone gives us the definitive account of a quintessentially American figure....

In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère's I Am Alive and You Are Dead, follows Philip K. Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by...

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more. / Para escribir James Joyce,...

From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between. My Love...

One of the most popular narrators of his time, Arthur Conan Doyle, was a visionary man with attitudes which were far ahead of his time. In this book we will know in depth his biography, his work, beyond the creation of the illustrious Sherlock...

Benjamin Franklin was considered the first American, and his signature is on the Declaration of Independence of the United States along with the signatures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Learn about one of the most fascinating characters in the history of the United...

A call from Carlos Saura that put Stanley Kubrick in contact with Vicente Molina Foix, who, during twenty years of a relationship that only ended with the death of the director, translated into Spanish the dialogues of five of his films. Una llamada de...