Biography

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

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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

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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

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Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein

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

Distributed for Seagull Books

2008 390 p. 8 x 9 63 halftones 316 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-585-0 $27.50

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Biographies from Haus Publishing

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.

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.

Mark Twain

Kevin J. Hayes

320 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-974-3 $19.00 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