Literární biografie v angličtině

Sue Klebold

Tara Westover

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and…

Maya Angelou

Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in racially charged Arkansas in the 1930s brings to vivid life a world which most Americans…

Haruki Murakami

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such…

Remember the wonderfully romantic book of letters by Beethoven, Byron and Napoleon that featured in the Sex and the City film? That collection never actually existed, but all of the letters referenced…

Joan Didion

Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into…

Hisham Matar

Now in paperback, this is the true story of Hisham Matar's return to Libya, 22 years after his father was kidnapped and taken to prison there. He never saw his father again, but the fall of Gaddafi…

Bryan Stevenson

Marjane Satrapi

Satrapis groundbreaking two-part graphic memoir of her unforgettable girlhood within a large family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution--now available in one volume--has been transferred to the big…

Anne Frank, Ari Folman

Mary Karr

A guide to writing memoirs, which draws on the author's experiences as a writer, reader and teacher, and lays bare her own writing process.

Nora Krug

Lidia Yuknavitch

Garrard Conley

Hannah Jewell

Trevor Noah

André Aciman

Behrouz Boochani

Nicholas Pileggi

Rob Sheffield

Sheffield relates the two important love affairs of his life, the first with music and the fine art of the perfect mix tape, and the second with a woman who changes him forever.

Amy Liptrot

Paul Kalanithi

Yossi Klein Halevi