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  1. Book ImageEvita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

    Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro

    The life that inspired Evita, the major motion picture starring Madonna.More

  2. Book ImageAn Autobiographical Study

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

    The Standard Edition

    Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.
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  3. Book ImageLeonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

    The Standard Edition

    Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.More

  4. Book ImageFreud: A Life for Our Time

    Peter Gay

    Norton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Freud’s birth by reissuing Peter Gay’s best-selling biography, featuring a new introduction.More

  5. Book ImageJ. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets

    Curt Gentry

    "The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo."—NewsweekMore

  6. Book ImageThe Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí

    Ian Gibson

    The most thorough and ambitious biography of Salvador Dalí ever written, a remarkable evocation of the outlandish personality, paranoia, and sexual torment lurking behind the nightmarish images that shook the world.More

  7. Book ImageA Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

    Timothy J. Gilfoyle

    "A remarkable tale."—Chicago TribuneMore

  8. Book ImageCipe Pineles: A Life of Design

    Cipe Pineles Golden, Martha Scotford

    The life and work of the first woman art director of a mass-market publication, an early role model for women in design.More

  9. Book ImageObsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

    Barbara Goldsmith

    Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own passionate nature. Obsessive Genius is a dazzling portrait of Curie, her amazing scientific success, and the price she paid for fame.More

  10. Book ImageFeynman's Lost Lecture

    David Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein

    "Glorious."—Wall Street JournalMore

  11. Book ImageDorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

    Linda Gordon

    Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers.More

  12. Book ImageT.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life

    Lyndall Gordon

    Lyndall Gordon's biographical work on T. S. Eliot has won many dramatic accolades.More

  13. Book ImageVirginia Woolf: A Writer's Life

    Lyndall Gordon

    "[T]he most informative, most nearly definitive, most judicious word on this major, modern writer."—Scott ElledgeMore

  14. Book ImageThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    Annette Gordon-Reed

    Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerMore

  15. Book ImagePortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    Michael Gorra

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
    Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award: Biography
    One of the Best Books of 2012: The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Phoenix


    A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.More

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