Libros de Biografías y memorias 2382 resultados

Short, Martin

In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Short takes the reader on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toron...

Jefferies, Richard

"The Williamses anchor Jefferies' profound inquiry to our churning world and illuminate their own passionate quests for truth and understanding."--"BOOKLIST," starred review "Brooke and Terry give a sense of cohesion to Jefferies's writing, and leave readers with much to ponder about our own chaotic, fast-paced, work-obsessed world."--"PUBLISHERS WEEKLY" "This perfect little pa...

Booth, James

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen years a colleague of the poet's at the University of Hull, offers a very different portrait. Drawn from years of research ...

James Gavin

From the author of the "definitive" ("Vanity Fair") biography of Lena Horne, "Stormy Weather," comes a brilliantly written portrait of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee. ""She made you think that she knew who you were, that she was singing only to you..."" Miss Peggy Lee cast a spell when she sang. She purred so intimately in nightclubs that couples clasped hands an...

Friedland, Roger

As his twin daughters approached adolescence, sociologist Roger Friedland was worried. The thing that most bothered him was not the erotic heat of America's youth culture, but the lovelessness of its sex. Offered the chance to live and teach in Rome, Roger and his wife, Debra, seized the opportunity to take their family to live in a city where love is alive, family bonds hold, ...

Baram, Marcus

Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron was a musical icon who defied characterization. He tantalized audiences with his charismatic stage presence, and his biting, observant lyrics in such singles as "The Bottle" and "Johannesburg" provide a time capsule for a decade marked by turbulence, uncertainty, and racism. While he was exa...

Monika Czernin

Además de un artista genial, y aunque se le tuvo por calculador, tacaño y dominante, Picasso fue también un hombre generoso y un amigo atento. Este libro trata de la inusual y estrecha amistad que unió al barbero Eugenio Arias y al pintor desde 1947 hasta la muerte de Picasso en 1973. Cuando Picasso se trasladó junto a Françoise Gilot y sus hijos Claude y Paloma a Vallauris, pu...

Macniven, Ian S

"Biography of James Laughlin, founder of the publishing house New Directions, and one of the most important advocates for modernist and experimental literature"-...

Hadlow, Janice

"The Times" Best Books of the Year "The Sunday Times" Best Books of the Year "The New Statesman" Book of the Year selection by Lucy Hughes-Hallett "BBC History Magazine" Book of the Year selection by Helen Rappaport "A masterpiece . . . . [T]his heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction and royal sacrifice is an absolute page-turner." --Amanda Foreman, author of "Georgiana:...

Brabner, Joyce / Dobbins, Ray

Winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Graphic NovelA "Village Voice" Best Graphic Novel of 2014 The renowned graphic-book author Joyce Brabner's "Second Avenue Caper" is the true story of a tight-knit group of artists and activists living in New York City in the early 1980s who found themselves on the front lines in the fight against AIDS.Struggling to understa...

Olsen, Mary Kate / Olsen, Ashley

The Olsen sisters take readers on a journey through their celebrated young lives, pausing to reflect on what has helped shape them into who they are today. "Influence" covers Mary-Kate and Ashley's interest in fashion, environment, art, and giving back. Photos throughout. ...

Louis Fischer

Amy Poehler

Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope on ...

Noel Riley Fitch / Margo Finch

She was a lover who scandalized the world with her tangled affairs and a writer whose erotic chronicles defined sexual liberation for a generation of women. Although her famed diaries seemed to reveal all, they didn't. This richly detailed, critically acclaimed biography captures the painful truths that Anais Nin did her best to hide. Photos. **Lightning Print On Demand Title ...

Jansen Leo

In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad selection of 265 letters, from a total of 820 in existence, that focus on Van Gogh's relentless quest to find his destiny, a search that led him to become an artist; the close bond w...

Walter Isaacson

Tras su extraordinaria biografía de Steve Jobs, el nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson cuenta la fascinante historia de las personas que inventaron el ordenador e internet; Los innovadores está destinado a convertirse en la historia definitiva de la revolución digital y en una guía indispensable para entender cómo sucede realmente la innovación. ¿Qué talentos y habilidades permitie...

Rowling, J. K.

J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagin...

Saez De Ocariz Leandro

Pío de Pietrelcina (1887-1968), capuchino italiano que vivió gran parte de su vida en el convento de San Giovanni Rotondo (Foggia), es un personaje extraordinario, aunque también controvertido y atacado por sus detractores. Considerado un místico, su misteriosa enfermedad, los estigmas que recibió y que le acompaÑaron durante cincuenta aÑos, la obediencia que profesó a sus supe...

Mariano Rivera

The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted by the Yankees, he didn't even own his own glove. He thought he might make a good mechanic....

Ruben Aguirre

Hurgar en los recuerdos de quien dio vida al Profesor Jirafales permite adentrarnos en la trayectoria de un hombre que con su talento, humor blanco y creatividad contribuyó a consolidación de uno de los fenómenos de la televisión más impactantes de América Latina. Rubén Aguirre Fuentes cuenta de manera entrañable a partir de fotografías, anécdotas personales y referencias perio...

Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence "Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I'll shut up a...

James C. Humes

Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years before the assassination of a Serbian archduke plunged Europe into war? Who could have predicted the rise of al-Qaeda nearly eight decades before anyone had heard of Osama bin Laden? Winston Churchill did. And for the first time bestselling author James C. Humes reveals these and other shocking predictions from ...

Eva Schloss

«La historia de Ana es la de una chica quellegó a todo el mundo con la simple humanidadde su diario. Mi historia es diferente.También fui víctima de la persecución nazi yme enviaron a un campo de concentraciónpero, a diferencia de Ana, yo sobreviví.»Eva Schloss era muy diferente a AnaFrank, pero eran grandes amigas. Despuésse convertirían en hermanastras, yaque el padre de Ana,...

Enrique Del Risco

En forma de una memoria, Enrique Del Risco nos presenta en Siempre nos quedará Madrid, los pormenores de la salida de su isla natal, Cuba, y su experiencia como inmigrante en la Madrid del noventa y cinco. Con mucho humor, pero al mismo tiempo con una profunda carga reflexiva, Del Risco nos invita a lo largo de estas páginas a vivir con él, a recorrer los escondrijos de su tiem...

López, Carlos

Este texto fue publicado originalmente en la revista Magna Terra en el 2001, edición que constituyó un homenaje al escritor guatemalteco Augusto Monterroso al cumplir sus 80 años de vida. Esta nueva edición es un hasta pronto a Tito, quien solía decirle al autor de esta biografía, Carlos López, que cuando muriera le gustaría que le dijeran "difuntito" y estaba seguro que al mor...

Elena Poniatowska

En Las palabras del árbol, Elena Poniatowska elabora un retrato íntimo de Octavio Paz basándose en conversaciones, recuerdos, cartas y trozos de poemas. Rescatando no solo la voz del poeta sino haciéndose parte de ella, narrando en segunda persona los momentos que compartieron, construyendo un testimonio de una de las figuras más polémicas de las letras mexicanas. "Mil novecien...

Ingmar Bergman

Las memorias del cineasta sueco Ingmar Bergman.Ignmar Bergman, cineasta y hombre de teatro sueco, ha pasado a ser ya todo un mito en la historia del cine mundial. Pero pocos son los que saben que se casósiete veces, que tuvo ocho hijos, que mantuvo numerosas relaciones amorosas, algunas célebres, y que se codeó, entre otros , con gente como Greta Garbo, Chaplin o Ingrid Bergman...

Juan Pablo Escobar

La historia jamas contada de uno de los criminales mas poderosos y sanguinarios del siglo XX.Creiamos que se habia dicho todo sobre Pablo Escobar, uno de los mas perversos criminales de America Latina, pero cualquiera que lea este libro se dara cuenta de que lo que sabiamos hasta ahora habia sido contado desde fuera, nunca desde la intimidad del hogar. Y las historias familiare...

Ian Kershaw

Esta monumental obra recrea, con una destreza y una intensidad extraordinarias, valiéndose de una inmensa variedad de fuentes, el mundo vital, político y militar de Adolf Hitler, desde sus raíces provincianas en la Austria de los Habsburgo hasta su muerte en Berlín en 1945. En Hitler, Kershaw despliega todo su conocimiento sobre el personaje y su época para ofrecernos un fresco...

Joshua Rubenstein

«León Trotsky vive en la memoria colectiva. Trotsky, una figura revolucionaria sobresaliente y sagaz escritor, encabezó un levantamiento que contribuyó a perfilar la política del siglo XX. Siendo aún adolescente se entregó al antizarismo en la clandestinidad, y a partir de este momento, jamás renegó de su compromiso con la revolución. Realizó labores de organización, escribió, ...