New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

   Published: 3/18/2024
2. Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/18/2024
3. Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

   Published: 3/17/2024
4. Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/12/2024
5. Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

   Published: 3/9/2024
6. Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/8/2024
7. Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 3/7/2024
8. The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You

   Published: 3/7/2024
9. Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)

   Published: 3/7/2024
10. Jessica Hooten Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor's 'Why Do the Heathen Rage?' A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress" (Brazos Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/5/2024
11. Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/4/2024
12. Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/3/2024
13. Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)

    Published: 2/28/2024
14. Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)

    Published: 2/27/2024
15. Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 2/26/2024
16. Neema Avashia, "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place" (West Virginia UP, 2022)

    Published: 2/25/2024
17. Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)

    Published: 2/17/2024
18. Deborah Taffa, "Whiskey Tender: A Memoir" (Harper, 2024)

    Published: 2/15/2024
19. Josh Fernandez, "The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist" (PM Press, 2024)

    Published: 2/13/2024
20. Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)

    Published: 2/12/2024