Biography from 64 Books

VG- condition softcover with rounded and curled corners, a few pages creased, spine uncreased. Updated 2005 edition with new postscript and 16 pages of black and white photographs, 269 pp. On April 20, 1998, Jan Reid was shot during a robbery in Mexico City, where he had gone to watch his friend, the boxer Jesus Chavez, fight. In… Read more about this item

Signed on the title page by the author. Includes bookstore signing ticket. Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket. First edition, full number line. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs, 352 pp. Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly… Read more about this item

Inscribed, signed and dated on the half-title page by the author. Near fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket, faintly bumped corners, first edition, full number line. 235 pp + 16 pages of black and white photographs.

Signed by the author on the title page. Near fine condition hardcover. 277 pp + 32 pp color and b&w photos, clean and unmarked. Autobiography of chess woman Grandmaster Maria Ivanka, with annotated games in figurine algebraic notation, diagrams, english language. Silver Queen is the translation and revised edition of the original Hungarian book, Ezüstvezér.

Near fine condition, clean and unmarked,240 pp. Electrical and multiple chemical sensitivities are disabling illnesses, yet many doctors know little of these conditions, or worse, dismiss them. This timely memoir recounts one man's affliction. The onset of the diseases is explored, as is his struggle with the medical establishment, largely hostile to his diagnosis. When… Read more about this item

Signed on the title page by the author, near fine condition softcover, 352 pp.

Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author. VG+ condition softcover, 154 pp. "Don't let anyone tell you that Holocaust memoirs are all alike; each is a pair of eyes. Children are a special kind of witness…In the end, Golan's story is a 'Bildungsroman.' There is a destination after all, and by the time… Read more about this item

Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author. Near fine condition softcover with a few scratches on front cover, 319 pp.Sarah Barnes and her husband, Jim, had big plans. She was a rising journalist. He was a rocker with an eye on law school. They traveled, laughed, loved, made plans, and married. But when their daughter,… Read more about this item

VG condition quarto softcover with curled cover edges, clean and unmarked, 216 pp.

Signed, inscribed and dated on the title page by the author. Near fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket. David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D.T. Max… Read more about this item

Signed on the title page "Enjoy!", by the author. Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket, first edition, full number line, 224 pp.

Inscribed and signed on the ffep by the author. Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket, first edition, full number line. Illustrated with b&w photos plus a 16 page section of color photos, 224 pp.

Signed by the author on the title page. First edition, full number line. Fine condition hardcover in near fine condition dustjacket. B&w photo in each chapter, 368 pp. After three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth… Read more about this item

Signed by Tatum O'Neal on a bookplate on the ffep. Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket, lightly tanned fore-edge, first edition, full number line. Illustrated with 16 pages of b&w photos, 204 pp. In this powerful follow-up to her New York Times bestselling memoir, A Paper Life, Academy Award®-winning actress Tatum O'Neal returns with an extraordinary chronicle of family,… Read more about this item

Inscribed and signed by the editor (Mattie's mom) on the half-title page. Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket, first edition, full number line. Illustrated with color photos, 224 pp. "I was touched by the depth of passion and awed by the firm resolve with which Mattie Stepanek pursued a dream that has evaded men and women throughout history. What… Read more about this item

Signed on the title page by the author and inscribed by the author on the dedication page. VG condition softcover with corner creases on covers, 135 pp. On June 23, 2011 a national reporter called Glen Maxey, the first and only openly gay state legislator in the history of Texas. Rick Perry was making noises about running for… Read more about this item

Signed on the ffep by Simeon Rice. VG+ condition hardcover in like dustjacket, first edition, full number line, 8 pages of b&w photos, 280 pp. All-Pro defensive end Simeon Rice learned the hard way that if you don't "play the game" in the National Football League, you pay the price. As a record-setting rookie, he bought the company… Read more about this item

Signed on the title page by the author. Fine condition hardcover in very good dustjacket, first edition, full number line, 172 pp. "Nationally published comic strip artist Henley offers a warm, funny memoir of adopting her son, William, which will make you cry. With its talk of yoga, dating and the wacky freelance life of a cartoonist, it … Read more about this item

VG+ condition hardcover, signed by the author on the title page, illustrated with 16 pages of b&w photos, 158 pp. First edition, full number line. The author is a now notorious disbarred former prosecutor and judge.

Signed on the title page by the author. Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket, stated first edition, 191 pp. Spike Gillespie tells it like it is. Whether she's writing about men, mothering or money, she cuts to the chase, unabashedly recounting the exhilaration and uncertainty she is forever encountering along the odd path that is her life. Gillespie… Read more about this item