Libros de Biografías y memorias 2385 resultados

David Sweetman

Todos creemos saber quién es Gauguin, pero, ¿qué es, en realidad, lo que sabemos de él? Para muchos, continúa representando el sueño más seductor del arte occidental: el agente de bolsa francés que abandonó a su familia y su carrera, viajó hasta los confines de la tierra en busca de un Edén tropical y, en fin, lo inmortalizó en algunos de los más hermosos lienzos de nuestra épo...

Gilbert, Elizabeth

At the end of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) never to marry. However, providence intervened in the form of a U.S. government ultimatum: get married, or Felipe could never enter America again. Told with Gilbert's trademark humor ...

Michael Prawdin

Craig Taylor

In Londoners, acclaimed journalist Craig Taylor paints readers an epic portrait of today's London that is as rich and lively as the city itself. In the style of Studs Terkel (Working, Hard Times, The Good War) and Dave Isay (Listening Is an Act of Love), Londoners offers up the stories, the gripes, the memories, and the dreams of those in the great and vibrant British metropol...

Timothy White

Reinhold Schneider

Dmitir Merezhkovski

Pierre Grimal

Gisbert Haefs

James Franco

Shirin Ebadi

The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced raising a family while pursuing her work. Best known in this country as the lawyer working tirelessly on behalf of Ca...

Michael Sharratt

Carlos Cañeque

J.m.g.le Clezio

Duff Mckagan

A FOUNDING MEMBER OF GUNS N' ROSES AND VELVET REVOLVER SHARES THE STORY OF HIS RISE TO THE PINNACLE OF FAME AND FORTUNE, HIS STRUGGLES WITH ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION, HIS PERSONAL CRASH AND BURN, AND HIS PHOENIX-LIKE TRANSFORMATION.IN 1984, AT THE AGE OF TWENTY, Duff McKagan left his native Seattle—partly to pursue music but mainly to get away from a host of heroin overdose...

Caioli, Luca

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Pancho Varona

Pancho Varona, mano derecha de Joaquín Sabina (para el que ha sido compositor, productor, músico y compañero en el escenario durante los últimos treinta años) y autor de clásicos como «No me importa nada» (Luz Casal), se desnuda en este volumen y nos habla de sus gustos musicales, de su relación con otros artistas, de su ob sesión por el rock o de cómo está encasillado en un lu...

Ana Frank

Mimi Alford

In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. After just three days on the job, the privileged but sheltered young woman was presented to the President himself. Almost immediately, the two began an affair that would continue for the next eighteen months. Emotionally unprepared to coun...

Miguel Barnet

Huber Matos

El triunfo de la Revolución cubana culminó en 1959 con la entrada en La Habana de la guerrilla victoriosa. Tres comandantes encabezaban la marcha: Fidel Castro, flanqueado por Camilo Cienfuegos y Huber Matos. Nueve meses más tarde, este último caía en desgracia y, tras un juicio sumario, era condenado a veinte años de cárcel, que cumplió íntegramente. Cómo llegó la noche, de un...

Marguerite Yourcenar

George Plimpton

Piper Kerman

Campbell, Hayley

Smith, Jamie

An unprecedented, raw, first-hand look into the life of America's private paramilitary warriors and their highly secretive work around the world. Jamie Smith, a contractor with more than two decades under his belt, has planned and executed hundreds of missions on behalf of government agencies and private industry in some of the world's most dangerous hot spots.They are elite wa...

Browne, John

Martin Gilbert

Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

Este libro es clave para entender muchos aspectos históricos y políticos de Colombia. Con una prosa ágil y conmovedora, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza narra a través de las vivencias de su padre, Plinio Mendoza Neira, los tristes momentos que siguieron al asesinato del caudillo liberal Jorge Eliécer Gaitán y El Bogotazo. El texto describe la difícil época de violencia que afrontó el pa...