Biographies, Autobiographies

A forensic psychiatrist’s corrective and innovative diagnosis of the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway’s suicide Hemingway’s Brain is the first forensic psychiatric examination of Nobel Prize–w …

An intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poet May Swenson (1913–1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of …

The full story of an Australian literary enigma Why did Elizabeth Harrower – one of the most important authors of postwar Australia – stop writing at the height of her powers? After publishing four b …

A poet would be overcome by sleep and hunger before being able to describe with words what a painter is able to depict in an instant . This sentence, attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci, may well be appl …

H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), author of King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain and She, was no stranger to the continent where his bestsellers were set. He lived in southern Africa from 187 …

The Big Festival of Lights: Stories and Plays for Hanukkah is a collection of short fiction and plays by nine prominent Jewish figures of the early twentieth-century meant to capture and celebrate th …

Set in the grungy New York City of the 1970s and ‘80s, these stories convey a sense of the enchantment that lurks on the flip side of every moment, as if the meaning of life were hidden within the st …