Literární biografie v angličtině

James Baldwin

Elyn R. Saks

Saks managed to achieve both professional and personal success in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis. In this memoir, she frankly and movingly discusses the disease…

Jeanette Winterson

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted…

Ndaba Mandela

Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, George Takei

David Sedaris

From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What…

John Williams

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestsellerAfter the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir…

David Sedaris

Art Spiegelman

Edmund de Waal

Rebecca Solnit

Edmund de Waal

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered…

Susannah Cahalan

Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller BRAIN ON FIRE is a terrifying and triumphant memoir by reporter Susannah Cahalan, about the mysterious physical and mental breakdown…

Tom Bissell, Greg Sestero

The Disaster Artist is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of cult cinematic phenomenon The Room, as well as the tale of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship.

Maya Angelou

'There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you' In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the…

Maya Angelou

'In the first decade of the twentiety century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer…

Gabe Ulla, David Chang

Emmanuel Carrere

Michelle Zauner

Caroline Fraser

Marjane Satrapi

Her acclaimed PERSEPOLIS books and in EMBROIDERIES, Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same keen eye and ear…

Annie Ernaux