Literární biografie v angličtině

Richard Flanagan

'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times'There's so much…

Salman Rushdie

Esmé Weijun Wang

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…

Franz Kafka

Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters…

George Orwell

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father. Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation…

Oliver Sacks

The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends…

Mary McCarthy, one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century, skewers her strict Catholic upbringing in this witty and compelling memoir, one of her major works.

Nora Krug

Hanif Abdurraqib

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren't. His lifelong love…

Alice Walker

Edmund de Waal

Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher's first ever memoir, revealing the truth about what it's "really" like to grow up in Hollywood, coming of age on the set of "Star Wars" and becoming a cultural icon at the age of 19. Also…

Stephanie Land

Scott Kelly

Caitlin Doughty

Chelsea Handler

In hilarious and tender essays, #1 New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Handler shares her unforgettable story of becoming the woman she always wanted to be. There&rsquo,s a woman I want to become…

Simon Kuper

An unsparing memoir of the city in the twenty-first century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption

Sarah Wilson

Robert Hardman

David Sedaris

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