26 Biography 1-773-702-7000
Correspondence
Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
Dialogue with Death
The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
Arthur Koestler “A self-analysis by an extraordinary psychologist who happened to be placed in a situation few human beings ever encounter.” —New Yorker “Koestler’s harrowing memoir of his three months behind bars with the constant threat of execution inspired his iconic Darkness at Noon. Dialogue with Death is the more lasting book for its lucid, exact, and unrelenting depiction of an imprisoned man on the verge of death.” —Newsweek 1946 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 313 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-44961-6 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00
Crossing
A Transgender Memoir
Deirdre N. McCloskey “This is a woman worth knowing. She has given us a highly readable, dramatic account of her crossing.” —New York Times Book Review “A searing tale of the traumas and rewards of gender change. . . . A powerful indictment of legal, medical, and institutional obstruction.”—Foreword Reviews
2019 320 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones 314 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66256-5 $19.00 Your Price: $9.00
Sleep Demons
An Insomniac’s Memoir
Bill Hayes “What if the hum [of sleep] never comes? That’s what writer and photographer Bill Hayes explores in his magnificent book Sleep Demons, part reflection on his own lifelong turmoil in the nocturne, part sweeping inquiry into the sometimes converging, sometimes colliding worlds of sleep research, psychology, medicine, mythology, aging, and mental health.”—Brain Pickings 2001, 2018 368 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftone 315 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56083-0 $18.00 Your Price: $6.00
Edited by Laurence Madeline “A triumph of scholarship. Editor Laurence Madeline provides scrupulous annotation, drawing upon memoirs, biographies, cultural histories, and other people’s letters; the book is beautifully illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, works of art, and reproductions of postcards. . . . Although both Stein and Picasso have been written about extensively, this volume is fresh, rich, and engrossing.”—Georgia Review
Critical Lives from Reaktion Books Critical Lives is a major series of short critical biographies that present the work of important cultural figures in the context of their lives. Each book is approximately 200 pages in length, includes about 30 halftones, and measures 5 x 8.
Distributed for Seagull Books
2008 390 p. 8 x 9 63 halftones 316 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-585-0 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00
Biographies from Haus Publishing Mark Twain Kevin J. Hayes
320 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-974-3 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Tito
Neil Barnett Inspirational partisan leader, doctrinaire communist and yet a thorn in Moscow’s side, leading light in the Non Aligned Movement—this biography explores the life and death of Tito, one of the most enigmatic and influential public figures of the twentieth century. 2006 175 p. 5 x 8 317 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904950-31-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00
Goethe
Peter Boerner “An invitingly colorful and compact volume. . . . The newcomer to Goethe will leave Boerner’s book with a clear impression of Goethe’s personality and of the scope of his work.”—Open Letters Monthly 2013 198 p. 5 x 73/4 35 color plates, 16 halftones 318 Paper ISBN: 978-1-908323-51-4 $16.95 Your Price: $7.00
Edgar Allan Poe
Brian Morton Edgar Allan Poe stands at the very beginning of American literature, an orphaned, rootless, haunted man who in just 40 years gave short story writing its modern cast, pioneered detective fiction, and wrote some of the most memorable lyric poems in the English language. In this short biography, Brian Morton sheds light on Poe’s scandalous life and his mysterious death. 2009 192 p. 5 x 8 319 Paper ISBN: 978-1-905791-52-1 $14.95 Your Price: $7.00
William Faulkner Kirk Curnutt
321 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-998-9 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Herman Melville Kevin J. Hayes
322 2017 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-807-4 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Thomas Mann
Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessell
323 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-081-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Victor Hugo
Bradley Stephens
324 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-084-2 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Marcel Proust Adam Watt
325 2013 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-094-8 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Albert Camus Edward J. Hughes
326 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-493-9 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Fyodor Dostoevsky Robert Bird
327 2012 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-900-2 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Walter Benjamin Esther Leslie
328 2007 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-343-7 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Karl Marx Paul Thomas
329 2012 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-906-4 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
Søren Kierkegaard Alastair Hannay
330 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-923-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
