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Subject Index: Biography & Memoir

3:14 and Out
A Collection of Vermont Public Radio Commentaries
Mares, Bill
55 Years In Five Acts
My Life in Opera
Varnay, Astrid; Arthur, Donald
82 Remsen Street
Coming of Age in Brooklyn Heights, Circa 1930–1940
Outwater, Alice Davidson
“A Good Poor Man’s Wife”
Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth-Century New England
Bushman, Claudia L.
After Franklin
The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-Revolutionary America, 1780–1830
Arch, Stephen Carl
Albums of a Life
A Memoir
Kauffmann, Stanley
The Architect of Genocide
Himmler and the Final Solution
Breitman, Richard
The Art of the Turnaround
Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations
Kaiser, Michael M.
Auschwitz
A Doctor's Story
Adelsberger, Lucie; Lipstadt, Deborah E., foreword.; Ray, Susan H., trans.
Autobiography of a Generation
Italy, 1968
Passerini, Luisa. Lisa Erdberg, trans.; Joan Wallach Scott, fwd.
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie, Andrew; Tichi, Cecelia, foreword
The Autumn of Italian Opera
From Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915
Mallach, Alan
Babes in Boyland
A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League
Barreca, Gina
Bad Times, Good Friends
A Memoir—Berlin 1945
Vogel, Ilse-Margret
Balasaraswati
Her Art and Life
Knight, Douglas M., Jr.
Barton Mumaw, Dancer
From Denishawn to Jacob’s Pillow and Beyond
Sherman, Jane, and Barton Mumaw. David Gere, new fwd.
Belle Moskowitz
Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith
Perry, Elisabeth Israels
The Bellstone
The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegean
Kalafatas, Michael N.
The Besht
Magician, Mystic, and Leader
Etkes, Immanuel
Best of Times, Worst of Times
Memoirs of a Political Education
Laqueur, Walter
Beyond the Garden Gate
The Life of Celia Laighton Thaxter
Mandel, Norma H.
Breaking the Silence
The German Who Exposed the Final Solution.
Laqueur, Walter and Breitman, Richard.
By Monomoy Light
Nature and Healing in an Island Sanctuary
Cairn, North T.; Hay, John, fwd.
A Celebration for Stanley Kunitz On His Eightieth Birthday
Kunitz, Stanley
Chaim Weizmann
The Making of a Zionist Leader
Reinharz, Jehuda
Chaim Weizmann
The Making of a Statesman
Reinharz, Jehuda
Challenges
A Memoir of My Life in Opera
Caldwell, Sarah with Rebecca Matlock
Charles Eliot Norton
The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Dowling, Linda
Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff
A Modern Correspondence
Olson, Charles, and Frances Boldereff. Ralph Maud and Sharon Thesen, eds.
Cleveland Amory
Media Curmudgeon and Animal Rights Crusader
Greenwald, Marilyn
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Christopher Kelly, trans.; Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters, and Peter G. Stillman, eds.
A Continental Eye
The Art and Architecture of Arthur Rotch
Katz, Harry L.; Chafee (Essay), Richard
The Correspondence of Paul Celan and Ilana Shmueli
Celan, Paul and Ilana Shmueli, Norman Manea, intr.
Crowbar Governor
The Life and Times of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley
Murphy, Kevin
Daniel Webster, “The Completest Man”
Documents from The Papers of Daniel Webster
Shewmaker, Kenneth E., ed. Charles M. Wiltse, Editor-in-Chief. William H. Rehnquist, fwd.; Irving H. Bartlett, Maurice G. Baxter, Richard N. Current, and Howard Jones, essays
The Darker Side of Genius
Richard Wagner’s Anti-Semitism
Katz, Jacob.
The Diary Of Alice James
James, Alice; Edel, Leon, ed.; Simon, Linda, intro.
Disguised As A Poem
My Years Teaching at San Quentin
Tannenbaum, Judith
Double Vision
An East–West Collaboration for Coping with Cancer
Todd, Alexandra Dundas
Doves of War
Four Women of Spain
Preston, Paul
Dune Boy
The Early Years of a Naturalist
Teale, Edwin Way
Eighty Years And More
Reminiscences 1815-1897
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; DuBois, Ellen Carol, intro.; Gordon, Ann, afterward
Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries
Women’s Verse in America, 1820–1885
Petrino, Elizabeth A.
Everyday Matters
A Love Story
Campion, Nardi Reeder; Hillary Rodham Clinton, fwd.
The Family Nobody Wanted
Doss, Helen; Battenfeld, Mary, intro.
A Feather in My Wig—Ovarian Cancer
Cured Seventeen Years and Still Going Strong!
Van Billiard, Barbara R. Theodore C. Barton, M.D., fwd.
Finding Pete
Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam
Hunting, Jill
Gaby Brimmer
An Autobiography in Three Voices
Brimmer, Gaby and Elena Poniatowska
A Game of Golf
Ouimet, Francis; Johnson, Richard A., intro. photo selection; Donovan, Robert, preface; Crenshaw, Ben, foreword
The Gardiners of Massachusetts
Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career
Milford, T. A.
Georgia O’Keeffe
A Life
Robinson, Roxana
Germany’s Prophet
Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
Sieg, Ulrich
The Girl Who Fell Down
A Biography of Joan McCracken
Sagolla, Lisa Jo
Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution
The English Connection
Wilderson, Paul W.
Granny D’s American Century
Haddock, Doris and Dennis Michael Burke
Hans Hotter
Memoirs
Hotter, Hans; Donald Arthur, trans. and ed.; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Zubin Mehta, fwds.
Harbor of Refuge
Being the Recreation of Four Seasons of an Offshore Lighthouse from the Authentic Journal of S. P. Jones, S.N
Jones, Stephen. Richard Brown, illus.
Healing
A Life with Chronic Illness
Bouvard, Marguerite G.
The Heart Too Long Suppressed
A Chronicle of Mental Illness
Hebald, Carol; Szasz, Thomas S., M.D., foreword
H.G. Wells
Traversing Time
Wagar, W. Warren
Holmes and Frankfurter
Their Correspondence, 1912–1934
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, and Felix Frankfurter. Robert M. Mennel and Christine L. Compston, eds
Hot Shots and Heavy Hits
Tales of an Undercover Drug Agent
Doyle, Paul E.
The Hottest Water in Chicago
Notes of a Native Daughter
Pemberton, Gayle
Improve, Perfect, & Perpetuate
Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education
Hayward, Oliver S., M.D., and Constance E. Putnam. C. Everett Koop, fwd. Philip Cash, introd.
In Balanchine’s Company
A Dancer’s Memoir
Fisher, Barbara Milberg
Intermittent Bliss
Reflections on a Long Love Affair
Lange, Willem
Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz
Kunitz, Stanley. Stanley Moss, ed.
It's Good to Know a Miracle: Dani's Story
One Family's Struggle with Leukemia
Shotel, Jay and Sue
Jon Vickers
A Hero's Life
Williams, Jeannie; Nilsson, Birgit, foreword
José Limón
An Unfinished Memoir
Limón, José. Lynn Garafola, ed.; Deborah Jowitt, introd.; Carla Maxwell, fwd.; Norton Owen, afterwd.
Journeys to War and Peace
A Congressional Memoir
Solarz, Stephen J., and Norman Ornstein, fwd.
Kazan Revisited
Dombrowski, Lisa, ed.
La Nilsson
My Life in Opera
Nilsson, Birgit and Popper, Doris Jung and Solti, Georg and Tuller, Peggy
Lavish Absence
Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès
Waldrop, Rosmarie; Stamelman, Richard, foreword
Letters from a Distant Shore
Fiala, Marie Lawson
Letters from London
James, C. L. R.
Lives of the Modern Poets
Pritchard, William H.
Louisa May Alcott
From Blood & Thunder to Hearth & Home
Stern, Madeline B.
Louisa May Alcott
A Biography
Stern, Madeleine B.
Making the News, Taking the News
From NBC to the Ford White House
Nessen, Ron
Making Time
Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen"
Lancaster, Jane
Marie Syrkin
Values Beyond the Self
Kessner, Carole S.
Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance
Soares, Janet Mansfield
Memoirs
Hans Jonas
Jonas, Hans, Wiese, Christian, ed. & annot.; Winston, Krishna, trans.
The Mind of the Founder
Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison
Madison, James. Marvin Meyers, ed.
Mother Ann Lee
Morning Star of the Shakers
Campion, Nardi Reeder and June Sprigg, fwd.
Motherhood Exaggerated
Hannan, Judith, Alan M. Dershowitz, fwd. and Leonard Wexler, M.D., med. intr.
N by E
Kent, Rockwell. Edward Hoagland, fwd.
The Neppi Modona Diaries
Reading Jewish Survival through My Italian Family
Cohen, Kate
A New England Girlhood
Outlined from Memory
Larcom, Lucy; Cott, Nancy F., foreword
The New Hampshire Century
*Concord Monitor* Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped It
Belman, Felice, and Mike Pride, eds.
Night’s Dancer
The Life of Janet Collins
Lewin, Yaël Tamar and Janet Collins
No Place But Here
A Teacher’s Vocation in a Rural Community
Keizer, Garret
A Northern Christmas
Kent, Rockwell. Doug Capra, introd.
The Notebooks of David Ignatow
Ignatow, David. Ralph J. Mills, Jr., ed. and introd.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris
Medicine, Theology, and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Dowling, William C.
On the Cutting Edge
Tales of a Cold War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, Guided Missile, Computer, and Space Ages
Brodsky, Robert F.
Orra White Hitchcock
An Amherst Woman of Art and Science
Herbert, Robert L. and Daria D'Arienzo
Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs
Correspondence
Celan, Paul, and Nelly Sachs. John Felstiner, intr.; Christopher Clark, trans.; Barbara Wiedemann, ed.
Petticoat Whalers
Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920
Druett, Joan. Ron Druett, original illus.
Pictures of People
Alice Neel’s American Portrait Gallery
Allara, Pamela
Piero della Francesca
Longhi, Roberto. David Tabbat, trans.; Keith Christiansen, introd.
Poet Be Like God
Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance
Ellingham, Lewis, and Kevin Killian
Poet on Demand
The Life, Letters, and Works of Celia Thaxter
Vallier, Jane E.
Recollections Of The Early Republic
Selected Autobiographies
Appleby, Joyce, ed.
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquières
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Christopher Kelly, ed. Charles E. Butterworth, Alexandra Cook, and Terence E. Marshall, trans.
The Road Washes Out in Spring
A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid
Wormser, Baron
Robert Kipniss: A Working Artist’s Life
A Working Artist’s Life
Kipniss, Robert
Rousseau Dialogues
Dialogues
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, and Roger D. Masters, trans.
Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s Russians
Biography of an Image
Robinson, Harlow
Saber’s Edge
A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq
Middleton, Thomas A.
Sailing the Dream
The Amazing True Story of the Teen Who Sailed Solo Around the World
Perham, Mike
Sakharov
A Biography
Lourie, Richard
Salamina
Kent, Rockwell, and Scott Ferris, fwd.
The Salt House
A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod
Huntington, Cynthia
Samuel Bronfman
The Life and Times of Seagram’s Mr. Sam
Marrus, Michael R.
Sandpiper
The Life and Letters of Celia Thaxter —And her home on the Isles of Shoals, her family, friends & favorite poems
Thaxter, Rosamond
The Sedgwicks in Love
Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic
Kenslea, Timothy
Sick of Nature
Gessner, David
Sisters of Fortune
Being the true story of how three motherless sisters saved their home in New England and raised their younger brother while their father went fortune hunting in the California Gold Rush
Heffernan, Nancy Coffey, and Ann Page Stecker
Skylark
The Life, Lies, and Inventions of Harry Atwood
Mansfield, Howard
Suddenly Jewish
Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots
Kessel, Barbara
The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing
Killinger, Margaret O.
The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I.
Brown, William J.; Melish, Joanne Pope, ed.; Wiggins, Rosalind C., pref.
The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley
The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley
Goodwin, Joan W.
There and Back
Commentary by a Former Foreign Correspondent
Dunsmore, Barrie
Things Come On
An Amneoir
Harrington, Joseph
Three Studies
Masolino and Masaccio, Caravaggio and His Forerunners, Carlo Braccesco
Longhi, Roberto
Through a Portagee Gate
Felix, Charles Reis
To the Life of the Silver Harbor
Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod
Wilson, Reuel K.
Toward Babel: Poems and A Memoir
Shmueli, Ilana, and Gillespie, Susan, trs.
Travelling Passions
Stefansson, the Arctic Explorer
Pálsson, Gísli
An Uncommon Man
The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell
Miller, G. Wayne
Undoing Time
American Prisoners in Their Own Words
Evans, Jeff, ed.; Baca, Jimmy Santiago, foreword; Haney, Craig W., afterward
Voyaging
Southward from the Strait of Magellan
Kent, Rockwell
Watching Walter Cronkite
Reflections on Growing Up in the 1950s and 1960s
Kutscher, Austin Ken
Wedding Song
Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
Goldin, Farideh
Wilderness
A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska—Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal
Kent, Rockwell. Doug Capra, fwd.
Witness to the Young Republic
A Yankee’s Journal, 1828–1870
French, Benjamin Brown. Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough, eds.
The Woman's Bible
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Fitzgerald, Maureen, intro.
Women, Power, and AT&T
Winning Rights in the Workplace
Herr, Lois Kathryn
Writing Naturally
A Memoir
Sargent, William
Writing on Stone
Scenes from a Maine Island Life
Photographs by Peter Ralston
With a Foreword by Philip W. Conkling
Gillis, Christina Marsden, Ralston, Peter, photography
Yehuda Amichai
The Making of Israel’s National Poet
Gold, Nili Scharf

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