Biography & Memoirs

After being in a coma and intubated for 4 months due to Covid, Toño Mauri wakes up and faces new challenges that he had to overcome and overcome -accompanied by his family, guided by his doctors and embraced by God- in order to have...

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the foundations of modern electrical and communication systems, and impressive achievements include the development of the AC electrical system, radio, Tesla coil transformer, cordless transmission and fluorescent lighting. Tesla's...

The first authorized biography of the Dalai Lama – an alternately inspiring and shocking story – of an acclaimed Tibetan scholar, with privileged access to the subject of his book. The Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths...

J. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J. R. spoke his first word. Though J. R.’s mother was his world, he craved something more. He approaches the bar on the...

Dacia Maraini was one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's closest friends, with whom she shared readings, film projects and even a house, when Dacia had the writer Alberto Moravia as a partner. The three traveled the world and especially Africa, trips to which Maria Callas...

Victor Klemperer's will to testify to his life under Nazi terror was reflected in about five thousand pages of newspapers. Written under constant threat of death due to his Jewish status -his marriage to an Aryan woman saved him from deportation-, several decades after...

Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads...

In 2013, twenty-five-year-old Anna Wiener decides to leave her precarious job as an editorial assistant at a literary agency in New York for the seductive promises of burgeoning tech startups. An adventure that will lead her to move to San Francisco and sign for...

One of the bravest memoirs published in recent years. A story of resistance as bold as it is clarifying, as intense as it is real. A survival guide to dealing with suffering and the paradox of embracing loss in order to reconcile with the...

In July 2021, Roberto Calasso, editor, writer, intellectual, man of letters, essential figure of Italian and European culture, passed away. Jorge Herralde, accomplice editor and friend of many years, since the youthful meetings in Frankfurt in the seventies of the last century, pays tribute...

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili,...

What happens when self-love coexists with pain and vanity? How can you live in the mystery and restlessness of not having a story to tell? Maryse Condé answers these questions from the story of three generations of island women united by the force of...

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents’ feelings of alienation, her first crush, a falling out with her best friend, the death of her beloved grandmother, her first encounter...

The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more land and people in twenty-five years than the Romans...

Body alignment expert Lauren Roxburgh believes that problems can be solved by first unlocking the foundation of your mental and physical health: the pelvic floor. Located at the root of our pelvis, it determines how firm our core is, how we handle stress, and...

How did Vladimir Putin go from being a simple KGB officer in the German Democratic Republic to becoming the most powerful figure in the new Russia, which is moving further and further away from Westerners? Hubert Seipel was the only Western journalist to accompany...

Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers, When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with, Neither of them was the least bit famous, and...

Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, and aspired to have...

Although the profession of an editor is enigmatic, these papers offer a hectic and at times explosive collection of clues to show how Jorge Herralde exercised it.From the purchase of a typewriter, a table and a chair in 1968 to the decision to hire...

J. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J. R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J. R. would...