The twin victories at Pensacola and Yorktown would not have been possible without the influence of a particular Spanish royal commissioner, suggests the thorough biography Francisco de Saavedra’s American Revolutionary War. James... Read More

Detailed and expressive, the biographical novellas of "Raising Genius" muse through parental influences on creative minds. Dramatizing the early childhoods and complicated family lives of three world-renowned visionaries, Nam Nguyen’s... Read More

Sun Yung Shin and Mélina Mangal’s innovative dual biography Revolutions Are Made of Love, combines paired poems with beautiful illustrations. Activists James and Grace Lee Boggs built a lasting social justice and civil rights movement... Read More

Giles Tremlett’s biography of Francisco Franco traces his fast rise through Spain’s military to take lasting totalitarian control of the nation. Focusing on a span from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until Franco’s death... Read More

Drawing on intimate gossip and rigorous critical scholarship, Todd Goddard’s "Devouring Time" is the first full-scale biography of Jim Harrison, the mold-breaking and large-living man of letters who transformed the literary landscape... Read More

"Patchwork" is Kate Evans’s fascinating graphic biography of Jane Austen. Despite the magnitude of her legacy, the book notes, historical records related to Jane Austen’s life are sparse. Using Austen’s own words from novels,... Read More

A larger-than-life biography of an ordinary man, "110 Years of Walter Casey Jones" draws on oral transcripts for its form. Philip F. Tennyson’s intimate biography of Walter Casey Jones draws on hours of taped interviews to form a... Read More

Through its brief portraits of remarkable individuals, "Quiet Valor" issues a compelling argument for rethinking whom society chooses to remember. Larry Nouvel’s illuminating biographical compendium "Quiet Valor" celebrates a selection... Read More