National Academy of Sciences 
Biographical Memoirs [PDF ebook] 
Volume 59

“Constantly entertaining … So much here to amuse and inform“ Observer “These friendly, knockabout letters are a treat“ Sunday Telegraph “Irresistible“ New York Times _______________________ …

This is a true story that opens in the mid 60’s. The main character, Lloyd, had already been in many hospitals for various reasons, but his self-determination begins with his admission to The Cripple …

The term Gaslighting, refers to a form of psychological abuse. It is a topic, many clinicians and people are starting to discuss. There has never been a written memoir, until now…After Caterina los …

MRS P“S JOURNEY is the enchanting story of Phyllis Pearsall. Born Phyllis Isobella Gross, her lifelong nickname was PIG. The artist daughter of a flamboyant Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and an Irish …

Sir Edward Heath’s Private Secretary didn’t take retirement sitting down… At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start …

Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love – of a place, of a person – where languages and cultures collide …

Abba Ahimeir (1897 –1962) writer, journalist and historian began his public life as a socialist, but subsequently moved toward the rightward extreme of Zionist ideology. One of the earliest opponents …

Voyages with my Grandfather tells the story of Robert Boyd, a leading Irish missionary of the first half of the 20th century. It draws on his influential books and previously unpublished memoirs and …

Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century“s most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orienta …