New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/15/2025
2. Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)

   Published: 3/14/2025
3. Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)

   Published: 3/13/2025
4. Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)

   Published: 3/8/2025
5. Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)

   Published: 3/7/2025
6. Arwen P. Mohun, "American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa" (Chicago UP, 2023)

   Published: 3/5/2025
7. Elizabeth T. Craft, "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/5/2025
8. Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)

   Published: 3/4/2025
9. Paul Lisicky, "Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell" (HarperOne, 2025)

   Published: 3/4/2025
10. Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/4/2025
11. John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/4/2025
12. Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/3/2025
13. Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

    Published: 2/25/2025
14. Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/24/2025
15. Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

    Published: 2/22/2025
16. Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)

    Published: 2/20/2025
17. The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker

    Published: 2/19/2025
18. Janet Sherfund, "Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me" (Worth, 2024)

    Published: 2/19/2025
19. Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

    Published: 2/19/2025
20. Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech

    Published: 2/17/2025