From 1934 to 1954, Bing Crosby utterly dominated American entertainment.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-2084-3
Author:  Gary Giddins

Against a richly detailed backdrop of history, the story of this unique American family unfolds... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0361-2
Author:  Peter Collier ,  David Horowitz

In this authoritative, fresh, and compelling account of the extraordinary life and enduring work of Dylan Thomas, ndrew Lycett peels back the layers of story.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-2919-0
Author:  Andrew Lycett

As a boy in the 1890s he went looking for thrills in a rural Georgia that still burned with humiliation from the Civil War. As an old man in the 1960s he dared death, picked fights, refused to take h ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1147-X
Author:  Al Stump

For years, Ingrid Bergman was called the most notorious woman in Hollywood - and one of the most shameful women of the century. From her position as America`s most beautiful... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1233-6
Author:  Donald Spoto

In this behind-the-scenes look at the most famous musical group in history, Hunter Davies gives the complete story of the Beatles... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1500-9
Author:  Hunter Davies

This biography of entertainment legend Sammy Davis, Jr. is an enthralling portrait of one of the most recognizable figures from the golden age of American show business.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-4025-9013-X
Author:  Wil Haygood

Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-2651-5
Author:  Diane Middlebrook

This compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age when.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7366-7163-3
Author:  Daniel Stashower

When Cary Grant passed away at age 82, fans from every generation mourned.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-4159-1725-6
Author:  Marc Eliot

Joseph V. Paterno is an outspoken teacher who also happens to be head football coach at Penn State University... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0166-0
Author:  Joe Paterno with Bernard Asbell

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-2948-4
Author:  Ray Charles ,  David Ritz

"Howard Hughes would have hated this book...because he never wanted the truth to be told... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-59007-040-2
Author:  Richard Hack

Roger Angell has witnessed many of the great and small events in the past 10 years of baseball... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0262-4
Author:  Roger Angell

This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-2877-1
Author:  Marion Meade