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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Marion Meade · 459 pages
Dorothy Parker was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker--a private life, set on a course of destruction. She suffered through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts. In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Mea
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Paul Brannigan · 400 pages
The epic story of a singular career that includes Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and Them Crooked Vultures. Based on ten years of original, exclusive interviews with the man himself and conversations with a legion of musical associates like Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, DC punk legend Ian MacKaye, and Nevermind producer Butch Vig, this is Grohl₂s story. He speaks ca
Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams
Nick Webb · 370 pages
"Douglas Adams possessed one of the twentieth century's great imaginations. He was clever, funny, prescient, child-like and - to the dismay of some contemporaries - a polymath who combined intellect with a sense of wonder. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was both intimate and cosmic, bleak and funny, frivolous yet philosophical. In 1978 it sneaked out on BBC radio, but news of it cascaded thr
JK Rowling: the wizard behind Harry Potter
Marc Shapiro · 127 pages
America's Queen: A Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Sarah Bradford · 570 pages
"From Sarah Bradford, Britain's best Royal biographer comes America's Queen, the definitive biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - a fascinating account of an extraordinary life. Jackie Bouvier's privileged upbringing instilled rigid self-control, while her expedient marriage into the Kennedy clan consolidated her determination. Revealing new testimony from many of the couple's closest friends
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
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
George Lucas: A Life
Brian Jay Jones · 555 pages
"The best-selling author of Jim Henson: The Biography traces the story of the man behind such blockbuster franchises as Star Wars and Indiana Jones, offering insight into the challenges he overcame and his influential legacy,"--NoveList.
Marilyn Monroe: Private And Undisclosed
Michelle Morgan · 288 pages
An illustrated biography of actress Marilyn Monroe featuring photographs that have not been previously published.
Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson
Randall Sullivan · 800 pages
Traces the story of Michael Jackson's life from his famous childhood through his final four years, drawing on interviews with his friends, enemies, and other associates to cover his international travels, business acumen, and parenting decisions.
Meghan: A Hollywood Princess
Andrew Morton · 253 pages
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography
Donald Spoto · 864 pages
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Judith Thurman · 511 pages
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
Virginia Woolf: A Biography
Quentin Bell · 314 pages
His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
Kitty Kelley · 592 pages
Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Elizabeth Winder · 265 pages
In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankees game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath's words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work which, ultimat
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson · 599 pages
Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped forge an American national identity based on the virtues of its middle class.
Lennon: The Definitive Biography
Ray Coleman · 784 pages
The long-time friend of John Lennon draws on his personal knowledge and the cooperation of Lennon's family and friends to detail the popular musician's life, career, and influence.
American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Richard Blow, Richard Bradley · 331 pages
An editor at "George" magazine explores Kennedy's last, defining years, revealing how he dealt with the challenges of running a successful business, managed the pressures of a high public profile, and adjusted to married life.
Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
James Sullivan · 280 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."