Biography Archives
Bob Dylan - Two hundred and twenty reviews into this venture, and not one about Bob Dylan. What does that tell you? It might suggest that the proprietor of
Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence, C.R. Stecyk III -     Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decade
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin, Myra Friedman -       Everybody knows about Janis Joplin.
Camus, A Romance, Elizabeth Hawes - On January 4, 1960 --- exactly fifty years ago --- Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket.
Charlatan, Pope Brock -     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the M
Churchill, Paul Johnson - Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and also the most likab
Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake, Trevor Dann -   Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake Trevor Dann Friends said that Nick Drake's music “brushes the ear.
Diane Arbus, Patricia Bosworth - We reeled out of the Diana Arbus show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art into the blissful order of the Renaissance art rooms. You would have too.
Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora, C.R Stecyk III and Drew Campion - The Indians who lived on the coastline of Los Angeles for 4,000 years gave Malibu a name that meant  "the surf sounds loudly."
Everybody Was So Young, Amanda Vaill - Zelda Fitzgerald, after a painful life, suffered a terrible death --- she was a patient at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carol
Forty Ways to Look at JFK, Gretchen Rubin - Who does this sound like? He was an indifferent student.
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation, Sheila Weller - 525 pages about Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon --- and this is the beach book for smart boomer women? I'm not kidding.
Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas, Tom Callahan - His father died when he was five, leaving behind a hard-pressed family and a coal-delivery business.
Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice, Elias Canetti - “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K.
Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life And Times of Doc Pomus, Alex Halberstadt - He was short and stubby. He’d had polio at 9; he couldn’t walk without braces and crutches.
Mozart, Peter Gay -     February 27, 2006: Mozart's 250th birthday. He's looking good for someone his age.
Paris and her Remarkable Women: A Guide, Lorraine Liscio - I flicked on the TV and there was Isabelle Adjani, one of my favorite actresses, in a film I’d never seen.
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch - Thick books. They'd better be great, because they sure are heavy.
Patricia Highsmith & Oscar Wilde: The Dark Lady of American Letters Meets Her Match in Père Lachaise - Oscar Wilde died on November 30, 1900.
Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy, Tom Wicker -     Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy Tom Wicker How many Communists did he have on that famous "list&q