New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/27/2025
2. The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby

   Published: 1/25/2025
3. The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

   Published: 1/23/2025
4. Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career Before Finding My Redemption" (Sports Publishing, 2024)

   Published: 1/18/2025
5. Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)

   Published: 1/18/2025
6. Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

   Published: 1/9/2025
7. Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 1/7/2025
8. Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)

   Published: 1/5/2025
9. Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/3/2025
10. Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)

    Published: 1/2/2025
11. Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)

    Published: 1/1/2025
12. Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

    Published: 12/31/2024
13. Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/29/2024
14. Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)

    Published: 12/29/2024
15. Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)

    Published: 12/29/2024
16. Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)

    Published: 12/28/2024
17. Daniel B. Hinshaw, "Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga" (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2023)

    Published: 12/27/2024
18. Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023)

    Published: 12/22/2024
19. Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/21/2024
20. Paul French, "Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/19/2024