Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes: The Untold Story

Peter Harry Brown, Pat H. Broeske · 496 pages

Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3

Robert Matzen · 400 pages

Who Was Amelia Earhart?

Kate Boehm Jerome · 112 pages

Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham

Mary S. Lovell · 421 pages

Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos & Letters

Richard Hack · 444 pages

This is the definitive biography of the first American billionaire.

Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh

Alexander Walker · 342 pages

Marilyn

Gloria Steinem · 182 pages

Using the last photographs taken before Marilyn Monroe's death, Gloria Steinem completes the project the actress and the photographer were working on: a book to "set the record straight."

Jimmy Stewart: A Biography

Marc Eliot · 480 pages

Marilyn Monroe: Private And Undisclosed

Michelle Morgan · 288 pages

An illustrated biography of actress Marilyn Monroe featuring photographs that have not been previously published.

Paul Newman: A Life

Shawn Levy · 490 pages

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody's Fool. But Newman was also an oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared about the cra

Johnny Carson

Henry Bushkin · 294 pages

A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant. From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. In the '70s and '80s he was the country's highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic. He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometim

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

Kitty Kelley · 592 pages

Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn

William J. Mann · 672 pages

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se

Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow

David Stenn · 369 pages

Her name epitomizes an era, a decade of Depression in which harsh reality created a demand for lush film fantasy - and no Hollywood star was as luscious or fantastic as Jean Harlow. She was MGM's most bankable asset, a blonde bombshell whose bleached hair, voluptuous body, and bawdy humor inspired a fervent cult following that remains to this day.

Meghan: A Hollywood Princess

Andrew Morton · 253 pages

Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

Donald Spoto · 864 pages

Elizabeth

J. Randy Taraborrelli · 560 pages

For more than six decades Elizabeth Taylor has been a part of our lives. Now acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli looks past the tabloid version of Elizabeth's life and offers the first-ever fully realized portrait of this American icon. You'll meet her controlling mother who plotted her daughter's success from birth...see the qualities that catapulted Elizabeth to stardom in 1940s Hollywood

Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

Leslie Bennetts · 419 pages

"Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious ambit

Joss Whedon: The Biography

Amy Pascale · 444 pages

"Follows [Whedon's] development from a creative child and teenager who spent years away from his family at an elite English public school, through his early successes--which often turned into frustrating heartbreak in both television (Roseanne) and film (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)--to his breakout turn as the creator, writer, and director of the Buffy television series [to his work on the blockbust

Half Broke Horses

Jeannette Walls · 313 pages

It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decay

Montgomery Clift: A Biography

Patricia Bosworth · 438 pages

Memories Are Made of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes

Deana Martin, Taylor Holden · 299 pages

Dean Martin was at the heart of the ever popular "Rat Pack". Deana, born in 1948, has clear memories from this period: of her father and Marilyn Monroe doing the twist in their living room, of Frank Sinatra dressing her in his tux. This is her revealing and affectionate biography of her father.

Spitfires

Becky Aikman · 369 pages

The heart-pounding true story of the daring American women who piloted the most dangerous aircraft of World War II through the treacherous skies of Britain.