Die meistausgezeichneten Biografien & Memoirs

Die Asche meiner Mutter

Frank McCourt

de Kooning: An American Master

Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

Samuel Johnson

W. Jackson Bate

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

Geoffrey C. Ward

Edith Wharton: A Biography

R. W. B. Lewis

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

William Taubman

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert A. Caro

Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann

Walter Lippmann and the American Century

Ronald Steel

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

Das Herz der Gewalt

Mikal Gilmore

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C. Stewart

Der Nachfolger

Robert A. Caro

Genie und Wahnsinn

Sylvia Nasar

Genet

Edmund White

Der Schneeleopard

Peter Matthiessen

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919

David Levering Lewis

Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson

Adam Sisman

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II

Robert A. Caro

Der schwarze General

Tom Reiss

Alexander von Humboldt und die Erfindung der Natur

Andrea Wulf

»I can't breathe«

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Tsunenos Reise

Amy Stanley

Die tausend Tage Kennedys

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Oppenheimer

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Zwischen mir und der Welt

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Können wir nicht über was anderes reden?

Roz Chast

Charles Darwin

Janet Browne

Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World

Donald R. Howard

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

T. J. Stiles

Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859

Joseph Frank

Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers

Joseph P. Lash

Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II

James Tobin

Gandhis Wahrheit

Erik Erikson

George F. Kennan: An American Life

John Lewis Gaddis

Henry James

Leon Edel

Henry James: A Life

Leon Edel

Huey Long

T. Harry William

Zaunköniginnen

Joyce Johnson

Mornings on Horseback

David McCullough

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

Justin Kaplan

Mein Leben als Sohn

Philip Roth

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom

James MacGregor Burns

Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson

Robert Polito