New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Nancy Woloch, "The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve" (Columbia UP, 2022)

   Published: 11/9/2022
2. Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)

   Published: 11/3/2022
3. Alma Zaragoza-Petty, "Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)

   Published: 11/2/2022
4. David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)

   Published: 11/2/2022
5. Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)

   Published: 11/2/2022
6. Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)

   Published: 10/26/2022
7. Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)

   Published: 10/26/2022
8. Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"

   Published: 10/25/2022
9. Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"

   Published: 10/25/2022
10. Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)

    Published: 10/25/2022
11. The Future of Vladimir Putin: A Discussion with Philip Short

    Published: 10/25/2022
12. Faleeha Hassan, "War and Me" (Amazon Crossing, 2022)

    Published: 10/20/2022
13. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism" (U California Press, 2021)

    Published: 10/20/2022
14. David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/18/2022
15. Robin Waterfield, trans. and ed., "The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/18/2022
16. Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 10/17/2022
17. Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)

    Published: 10/17/2022
18. Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America

    Published: 10/17/2022
19. Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)

    Published: 10/14/2022
20. Ruth Harris, "Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda" (Harvard UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/13/2022