Notable recent releases are listed below.

2021 Releases:

Don Revie	Don Revie: The Definitive Biography by Christopher Evans	Dec 21
John Milton	Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton by Joe Moshenska	Dec 7
Gretta Garbo	Garbo by Robert Gottlieb	Dec 7
René Magritte	Magritte: A Life by Alexander Danchev	Nov 30
Bette Davis	Bette Davis: Black and White by Julia Stern	Nov 26
Winston Churchill	Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones	Nov 23
George Platt Lynes	George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye by Allen Ellenzweig	Nov 23
Picasso	A Life of Picasso The Minotaur Years (Vol 4) by John Richardson	Nov 16
Muhammad	Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait by Mohamad Jebara	Nov 16
Elizabeth Hardwick	A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis	Nov 16
Sarah Churchill	Wayward Daughter: Sarah Churchill and Her World by Miranda Brooke	Nov 15
E. O. Wilson	Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature by Richard Rhodes	Nov 9
Catherine Dior	Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie	Nov 9
King George III	The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts	Nov 9
Benedict XVI	Benedict XVI: A Life (Vol 2) by Peter Seewald	Nov 9
Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin: The Biography by Bob Spitz	Nov 9
Leonid Brezhnev	Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg	Nov 4
Polly Adler	Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby Applegate	Nov 2
Cokie Roberts	Cokie: A Life Well Lived by Steven Roberts	Nov 2
H G Wells	The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin	Nov 2
Princess Mary	Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess by Elisabeth Basford	Nov 1
Stephen Crane	Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster	Oct 26
Winston Churchill	Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill by Geoffrey Wheatcroft	Oct 26
Robert Bellah	A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Mattteo Bortolini	Oct 19
Charles Addams	Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life by Linda Davis	Oct 19
Willis A. Lee Jr.	Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. by Paul Stillwell	Oct 15
Tony Hillerman	Tony Hillerman: A Life by James Morris	Oct 14
Franklin Graham	Franklin Porter Graham: Southern Liberal by William Link	Oct 14
Adolf Hitler	The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 (Vol 2) by Frank McDonough	Oct 12
Oscar Wilde	Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis	Oct 12
Harold Rosenberg	Harold Rosenberg: A Critic’s Life by Debra Bricker Balken	Oct 6
B. B. King	King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King by Daniel de Vise	Oct 5
Harry Guggenheim	The Business of Tomorrow: The Visionary Life of Harry Guggenheim by Dirk Smillie	Oct 5
Hans Holbein	The King’s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle	Oct 5
W. G. Sebald	Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier	Oct 5
Anthony Bourdain	Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever	Sept 28
Robt E Lee	Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen Guelzo	Sept 28
B.H. Roberts	B.H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena by John Stillito	Sept 27
Vanderbilt family	Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe	Sept 21
George Rickey	George Rickey: A Life in Balance by Belinda Rathbone	Sept 14
Howard Kazanjian	Howard Kazanjian: A Producer’s Life by J. W. Rinzler	Sept 14
Oliver Cromwell	The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton	Sept 7
Fannie Lou Hamer	Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson	Sept 1
Joseph P. Kennedy	Tempting All the Gods: Joseph P. Kennedy by Jane Karoline Vieth	Sept 1
Queen Eliz II	The Queen by Matthew Dennison	Sept 1
Lafayette	Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan	Aug 24
George Hearst	George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age by Matthew Bernstein	Aug 19
D.H. Lawrence	Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson	Aug 17
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson	Aug 17
Prince Philip	Philip: The Final Portrait by Gyles Brandreth	Aug 17
Nico	You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike	Aug 10
Joseph P. Kennedy	The Ambassador:Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James by Susan Ronald	Aug 3
Mark Catesby	Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby by Henrietta McBurney	Aug 3
Genl John Rawlins	General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen Ottens	Aug 3
Lowitja O’Donoghue	Lowitja: The Authorised Biography by Stuart Rintoul	Aug 1
Fernando Pessoa	Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith	July 20
Edgar Hoover	The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover by Paul Letersky	July 13
Ivor Gurney	Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy	July 13
Barbara Hepworth	Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton	July 13
Lise Meitner	The Amazing Story of Lise Meitner by Andrew Norman	July 8
Clive Bell	Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography by Mark Hussey	July 6
Al Hirschfeld	Hirschfeld: The Biography by Ellen Stern	July 6
Jayne Mansfield	Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It by Eve Golden	June 29
James Otis & Mercy Warren	Minds and Hearts: The Story of James Otis Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren by Jeffrey Hacker	June 25
Etta Place	Etta Place: Riding Into History with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by D.J. Herda	June 23
John Craxton	John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins	June 22
Sydney Taylor	From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family by June Cummins	June 22
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese	Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Paternalism’s Daughter by Deborah Symonds	June 15
Ian Fleming	The World is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming by Oliver Buckton	June 12
Ethel Rosenberg	Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy by Anne Sebba	June 8
John Marshall Harlan	The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan by Peter Canellos	June 8
Paulo Freire	Paulo Freire: A Philisophical Biography by Walter Omar Kohan	June 3
C.S. Lewis	The Making of C.S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist by Harry Lee Poe	June 1
Horace Stoneham	Forty Years a Giant: The Life of Horace Stoneham by Steven Treder	June 1
Charlotte Delbo	Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed by Ghislaine Dunant	May 28
Mary Wortley Montagu	The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett	May 26
Joseph Ritson	Discovering Robin Hood: The Life of Joseph Ritson by Stephen Basdeo	May 26
Lucas Alaman	A Life Together: Lucas Alaman and Mexico, 1792-1853 by Eric Van Young	May 25
Vito Genovese	The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss by Anthony DeStefano	May 25
John Browning	The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Man Whose Firearms Changed the World by Nathan Gorenstein	May 25
Thomas Sowell	Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L. Riley	May 25
Norman Jewison	Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life by Ira Wells	May 18
Joseph Smith	Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom by Spencer McBride	May 11
Kurt Gödel	Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel by Stephen Budiansky	May 11
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Ann McCutchan	May 11
Henrietta Szold	To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold by Dvora Hacohen	May 11
Karl Barth	Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict by Christiane Tietz	May 4
George Berkeley	George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life by Tom Jones	May 4
Nikolay Myaskovsky	Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and his Times by Patrick Zuk	May 3
John Omohundro	Texas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star by Matthew Kerns	May 1
Genl David Gregg	Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg by Edward Longacre	May 1
Jim Bridger	Trailblazer of the American West by Jerry Enzler	Apr 29
Fred Reines	Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino by Leonard Cole	Apr 22
Clarence Darrow	Darrow’s Nightmare: The Forgotten Story of America’s Most Famous Trial Lawyer by Nelson Johnson	Apr 20
Nancy Pelosi	Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power by Susan Page	Apr 20
Georgina Weldon	Georgina Weldon: The Fearless Life of a Victorian Celebrity by Joanna Martin	Apr 6
Louis Lomax	The Life and Times of Louis Lomax by Thomas Aiello	Apr 2
Genl John Slough	John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General by Richard Miller	Apr 1
Winston & Randolph Churchill	Churchill & Son by Josh Ireland	Mar 30
Philip Roth	Philip Roth: A Counterlife by Ira Nadel	Mar 29
James Hughes Callahan	Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors: James Hughes Callahan by Thomas O. McDonald	Mar 25
Nipsey Hussle	The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle by Rob Kenner	Mar 23
Edward Said	Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan	Mar 23
Eugene H. Peterson	A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson by Winn Collier	Mar 23
Francis Bacon	Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens	Mar 23
Salvador Dali	The Dali Legacy: How an Eccentric Genius Changed the Art World and Created a Lasting Legacy by Christopher Heath Brown	Mar 23
Edward Said	Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan	Mar 23
Steve Marriott	All or Nothing: The Story of Steve Marriott by Simon Spence	Mar 18
Louis Duportail	Washington’s Engineer: Louis Duportail and the Creation of an Army Corps by Norman Desmarais	Mar 16
Lady Bird Johnson	Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig	Mar 16
Sir Francis Drake	In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and Perilous Birth of the British Empire by Laurence Bergreen	Mar 16
Herman Ehrenberg	Inside the Texas Revolution: The Enigmatic Memoir of Herman Ehrenberg by James Crisp	Mar 15
Katherine Parr	Katherine Parr: Opportunist, Queen, Reformer by Don Matzat	Mar 15
Fitz John Porter	Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel	Mar 8
Thomas Sankara	Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa by Brian Peterson	Mar 2
Thaddeus Stevens	Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine	Mar 2
Russell Lee	Russell Lee: A Photographer’s Life and Legacy by Mary Jane Appel	Mar 2
R.C. Sproul	R.C. Sproul: A Life by Stephen Nichols	Mar 2
John Marshall	John Marshall: The Final Founder by Robert Strauss	Mar 1
William Butterfield	The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times by Nicholas Olsberg	Feb 28
Jane Street	The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver by Jane Little Botkin	Feb 25
Tom Stoppard	Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee	Feb 23
Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg	A Kabbalist in Montreal: The Life and Times of Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg by Ira Robinson	Feb 23
Ivan Illich	Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by David Cayley	Feb 18
John Calhoun	Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder	Feb 16
Stan Lee	True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman	Feb 16
William Parker	Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker by Cisco Bradley	Feb 12
Vera Rubin	Vera Rubin: A Life by Jacqueline and Simon Mitton	Feb 11
Bugsy Siegel	Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson	Feb 9
Rosa Bonheur	Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt	Feb 9
Robert Maxwell	Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell by John Preston	Feb 9
Margaret Murray Washington	Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman by Sheena Harris	Feb 4
Mike Nichols	Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris	Feb 2
Sybille Bedford	Sybille Bedford: A Life by Selina Hastings	Feb 2
Bob Gersony	The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony by Robert Kaplan	Jan 26
Ida Wells	Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster	Jan 26
Herman Melville	Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life by John Bryant	Jan 19
Lucian Freud	The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968-2011 by William Feaver	Jan 19
Isaac Newton	The World of Isaac Newton by Toni Mount	Jan 15
Graham Greene	The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene	Jan 12
Rabbi Louis Jacobs	Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs by Harry Freedman	Jan 12
Ben Fletcher	Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly by Peter Cole	Jan 12

Notable 2020 Releases:

Grace Holmes Carlson	The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson by Donna Haverty-Stacke	Dec 29
Frank J. Cannon	Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel by Val Holley	Dec 23
Daili Lama	His Holiness the Fourteenth Daili Lama by Tenzin Geyche Tethong	Dec 23
Hubert Harrison	Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality by Jeffrey Perry	Dec 22
Sylvia Pankhurst	Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes	Dec 15
Pope Benedict	Benedict XVI: The Biography: Volume One by Peter Seewald	Dec 15
James A. Baker III	Texas Titans: George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker III: A Friendship Forged in Power by Charles Denyer	Dec 15
Eliza Pratt Greatorex	Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne	Dec 15
Mozart	Mozart: The Reign of Love by Jan Swafford	Dec 8
Robin Williams	Robin William, American Master by Stephen Spignesi	Dec 8
Charles de Gaulle	Charles de Gaulle: A Thorn in the Side of Six American Presidents by William Keylor	Dec 7
William & Oveta Hobby	The Governor and the Colonel: A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby by Don Carleton	Dec 2
René Magritte	Magritte: A Life by Alexander Danchev	Nov 30
Tom Seaver	Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life by Bill Madden	Nov 24
Henry Adams	The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by David S. Brown	Nov 24
General Custer	Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer’s Life of Service and Lust for Fame by James Mueller	Nov 19
Adrienne Rich	The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography by Hilary Holladay	Nov 17
John Glenn	The Last American Hero: The Remarkable Life of John Glenn by Alice George	Nov 10
Raphael	Raphael: The Life of a Genius by Anna Cerboni Baiardi	Nov 3
Ted Kennedy	Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour by Neal Gabler	Oct 27
Sylvia Plath	Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark	Oct 27
Tecumseh	Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens	Oct 27
John Milton	Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell	Oct 27
Mario Cuomo	Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man by George Marlin	Oct 23
Queen of Versailles	Queen of Versailles: Madame de Maintenon, First Lady of Louis XIV’s France by Mark Bryant	Oct 22
Malcolm X	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les & Tamara Payne	Oct 20
Cary Grant	Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman	Oct 20
John Steinbeck	Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder	Oct 13
John McCain	The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain by Mark Salter	Oct 13
Francis Bacon	Francis Bacon: The Measure of Excess by Yves Peyre	Oct 12
James Beard	The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard by John Birdsall	Oct 6
Stalin	Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Suny	Oct 6
Eleanor Roosevelt	Eleanor: A Life by David Michaelis	Oct 6
James Baker III	The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker	Sept 29
Herman Bavnick	Bavnick: A Critical Biography by James Eglinton	Sept 29
Siegfried Kracauer	Kracuer: A Biography by Jörg Später	Sept 23
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.	The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War by Luke Nichter	Sept 22
William Faulkner	The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962 (Vol 2) by Carl Rollyson	Sept 22
Malcolm McLaren	The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman	Sept 22
Ernest Hemingway	The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway by Richard Bradford	Sept 8
Beethoven	Beethoven, A Life by John Caeyers (transl. by Brent Annable)	Sept 8
Rembrandt	Young Rembrandt: A Biography by Onno Blom (transl. by Beverley Jackson)	Sept 8
Toussaint Louverture	Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh	Sept 1
Louis XIV	King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel	Sept 1
Hitler	Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945 (Vol 2) by Volker Ulrich	Sept 1
Habsburg Family	The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady	Aug 25
John Lewis	His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham	Aug 25
Henry Kissinger	Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography by Thomas Schwartz	Aug 25
Little Richard	The Big Life of Little Richard by Mark Ribowsky	Aug 25
Timothy Findley	Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley by Sherrill Grace	Aug 25
Zygmunt Bauman	Bauman: A Biography by Izabela Wagner	Aug 17
Izzy Stone	Izzy: A Biography of I.F. Stone by Robert Cottrell	Aug 14
Nathalie Sarraute	Nathalie Surraute: A Life Between by Ann Jefferson	Aug 11
Charles Dickens	The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson	Aug 14
Margaret Beaufort	Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors by Nicola Tallis	July 28
Butch Cassidy	Butch Cassidy: The True Story by Charles Leehrsen	July 14
Coco Chanel	Chanel: Her Life by Justine Picardie	July 14
Henry III	Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule by David Carpenter	July 14
Joe McCarthy	Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye	July 7
Francis Poulenc	Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols	June 9
Henry Longfellow	Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas Basbanes	June 2
Wm Sherman	The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Brian Holden Reid	June 1
Eleanor of Aquitaine	Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires by Sara Cockerill	June 1
Sam Colt	Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter that Changed America by Jim Rasenberger	May 26
John Maynard Keynes	The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary Carter	May 19
William Wordsworth	Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate	May 19
James Longstreet	The Confederacy’s Most Modern General: James Longstreet and the American Civil War by Harold Knudsen	May 15
Jerry Brown	Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown by Jim Newton	May 12
Pauli Murray	Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life by Troy Saxby	May 11
Nat King Cole	Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole by Will Friewald	May 1
John Roebling	Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling by Richard Haw	May 1
Henry Kissinger	The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World by Barry Gewen	Apr 28
Andy Warhol	Warhol by Blake Gopnik	Apr 28
Yogi Berra	Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask by Jon Pessah	Apr 14
Doris Duke	The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke by Sallie Bingham	Apr 7
David I	David I: King of Scots, 1124-1153 by Richard Oram	Apr 6
Beethoven	From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings by Jeremy Yudkin	Mar 24
Gunzberg family	The Gunzbergs: A Family Biography by Lorraine de Meaux	Mar 24
William Faulkner	The Life of William Faulkner: The Past is Never Dead, 1897-1934 by Carl Rollyson	Mar 24
Robert Stone	Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone by Madison Smartt Bell	Mar 17
Henry VIII	Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson	Mar 3
Joe Louis	Joe Louis: The Rise and Fall of the Brown Bomber by Thomas Myler	Mar 1
Piero di Lorenzo de Medici	Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy by Alison Brown	Feb 27
Dalai Lama	The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life by Alexander Norman	Feb 25
Dave Brubeck	Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time by Philip Clark	Feb 18
Ben Franklin	Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership by Edward Larson	Feb 11
George Orwell	Becoming George Orwell by John Rodden	Feb 4
Calamity Jane	Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane by Karen R. Jones	Feb 4
Karl Lagerfeld	Kaiser Karl: The Life of Karl Lagerfeld by Raphaella Bacque	Feb 1
Josef Mengele	Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death” by David Marwell	Jan 28
Dante	Dante by John Took	Jan 28
John Fremont	Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War by Steve Inskeep	Jan 14

Notable 2019 Releases:

Sidney Lumet	Sidney Lumet: A Life by Maura Spiegel	Dec 10
Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World by Gillian Gill	Dec 3
Mary Ball Washington	Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother by Craig Shirley	Dec 3
Melania Trump	Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography by Kate Bennett	Dec 3
Cartier family	The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier	Nov 26
Richard III	Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks	Nov 26
Horace Greeley	Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood by James Lundberg	Nov 19
Walter Ralegh	Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire by Alan Gallay	Nov 19
Carrie Fisher	Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller	Nov 12
Ralph Lauren	Ralph Lauren: In His Own Fashion by Alan Flusser	Nov 12
Prince Charles	King Charles: The Man, the Monarch, and the Future of Britain by Robert Jobson	Nov 12
Margaret Thatcher	Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography (Vol 3) by Charles Moore	Nov 12
Marie-Antoinette	Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen by John Hardman	Oct 29
Janis Joplin	Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren	Oct 22
Houdini	The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski	Oct 22
Thomas Edison	Edison by Edmund Morris	Oct 22
Hitler	Hitler by Peter Longerich	Oct 3
Hitler	Hitler: A Global Biography by Brenda Simms	Oct 1
Earl Warren	Earl Warren: A Life of Truth and Justice by D. J. Herda	Sept 24
David Ben-Gurion	A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev	Sept 24
Charlemagne	King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet Nelson	Sept 17
Susan Sontag	Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser	Sept 17
Thomas Paine	Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for Independence by Harlow Unger	Sept 10
Conde Nast	Conde Nast: The Man and His Empire – A Biography by Susan Ronald	Sept 3
George Gershwin	Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music by Richard Crawford	Sept 3
Prince Albert	Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A.N. Wilson	Sept 3
Alexander the Great	Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death by Anthony Everitt	Aug 27
Simone de Beauvoir	Becoming Beauvoir: A Life by Kate Kirkpatrick	Aug 22
Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon by Greg Laurie	Aug 20
PT Barnum	Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson	Aug 6
Walter Bagehot	Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant	July 23
Stonewall Jackson	Searching for Stonewall Jackson: A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America by Ben Cleary	July 16
JFK Jr.	America’s Reluctant Price: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. by Steven Gillon	July 9
George Marshall	George Marshall: Defender of the Republic by David Roll	July 9
Beethoven	Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary by John Clubbe	July 9
Karl Marx	Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society (Vol 1) by Michael Heinrich	July 2
Tchaikovsky	Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed by John Suchet	July 2
John Nicolay	John George Nicolay: The Man in Lincoln’s Shadow by Allen Carden	June 28
Charles V	Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Geoffrey Parker	June 25
Mark Twain	The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years (Vol 2) by Gary Scharnhorst	June 21
Fidel Castro	Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary by Jonathan Hansen	June 18
Frederick the Second	Frederick the Second: Wonder of the World, 1194-1250 by Ernst Kantorowicz	June 13
Joe Frazier	Smokin’ Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier by Mark Kram Jr.	June 4
Richard III	Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me by Matthew Lewis	June 1
George Orwell	George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick	May 30
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law and Ideas by Stephen Budiansky	May 28
Mickey Mantle	Mantle: The Best There Ever Was by Tony Castro	May 22
Franz Kafka	Franz Kafka: The Untold Story by George Fabian	May 9
Henry VI	The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson	May 7
Dr. Seuss	Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodore Giesel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones	May 7
Richard Holbrooke	Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer	May 7
George Mason	George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights by William Hyland Jr.	May 7
Ridley Scott	Ridley Scott: A Biography by Vincent LoBrutto	Apr 22
John McCain Sr	Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power by William Trimble	Apr 15
Birch Bayh	Birch Bayh: Making a Difference by Robert Blaemire	Apr 12
Chaucer	Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner	Apr 9
Barbara Bush	The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty by Susan Page	Apr 2	New Release Alert
Jimmy Page	Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography by Chris Salewicz	Apr 2
Ernie Banks	Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks by Ron Rapoport	Mar 26
John Roberts	The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts by Joan Biskupic	Mar 26
Buffalo Bill	Buffalo Bill Cody, A Man of the West by Prentiss Ingraham	Mar 21
Henrik Ibsen	Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask by Ivo de Figueiredo	Mar 20
Sandra Day O’Connor	First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas	Mar 19	New Release Alert
YSL	Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography by Laurence Benaim	Mar 19
Mel Brooks	Funny Man: Mel Brooks by Patrick McGilligan	Mar 19
Bill Proxmire	Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate by Jonathan Kasparek	Mar 18
Eric Clapton	Eric Clapton: A Life in Music by Marc Roberty	Mar 15
Amon Carter	Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life by Brian Cervantez	Mar 7
Louis XIV	Louis XIV: The Power and Glory by Josephine Wilkinson	Mar 5
Vivien Leigh	Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan	Feb 28
Ernie Banks	Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks by Doug Wilson	Feb 15
Sarah Polk	Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk by Amy Greenberg	Feb 5
Walter F. George	A Giant From Georgia: The Life of U.S. Senator Walter F. George by Jamie Cockfield	Feb 1
Jackie Robinson	A Fine Team Man: Jackie Robinson and the Lives He Touched by Joe Cox	Feb 1
George Michael	Careless Whispers: The Life and Career of George Michael by Robert Steele	Jan 31
Light-Horse Harry Lee	The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero – The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee’s Father by Ryan Cole	Jan 15

Notable 2018 Releases:

Queen Eliz II	Queen of the World by Robert Hardman	Dec 25
Alexander the Great	Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great by F. S. Naiden	Dec 13
Daniel Morgan	Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life by Albert Zambone	Dec 12
Rock Hudson	All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson by Mark Griffin	Dec 4
Napoleon	The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonapart by Susan Jaques	Dec 4
John Lennon	Being John Lennon: A Restless Life by Ray Connolly	Nov 27
Winston Churchill	Churchill by Andrew Roberts	Nov 27	Third party reviews
Che Guevara	Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson	Nov 13
Al Gore, Sr.	Albert Gore, Sr.: A Political Life by Anthony Badger	Nov 13
John Marshall	John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court by Richard Brookhiser	Nov 13
Clay, Webster, Calhoun	Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster by H.W. Brands	Nov 13
William Penn	William Penn: A Life by Andrew Murphy	Nov 8
Saul Below	The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife by Zachary Leader	Nov 6
Thomas Cromwell	Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch	Oct 30
Eric Clapton	Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton by Philip Norman	Oct 30
Nietzsche	I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideax	Oct 30
Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black by Alan Light	Oct 30
Debussy	Debussy: A Painter in Sound by Stephen Walsh	Oct 23
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron de Hart	Oct 16
Chopin	Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Dr. Alan Walker	Oct 16
Babe Ruth	The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy	Oct 16
Napoleon	Napoleon: A Life by Adam Zamoyski	Oct 16
Frederick Douglass	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight	Oct 16
Picasso	Picasso: An Intimate Portrait by Olivier Widmaier Picasso	Oct 16
Oscar Wilde	Oscar: A Biography by Matthew Sturgis	Oct 4
Thelonious Monk	Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution by Youssef Daoudi	Sept 25
Eliza Hamilton	Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar J. Mazzeo	Sept 18
Wendell Willkie	The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country by David Levering Lewis	Sept 18
Benjamin Franklin	Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity by Nick Bunker	Sept 18
Schumann	Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Judith Chernalk	Sept 18
Betty Ford	Betty Ford: First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer by Lisa McCubbin	Sept 11
Adam Smith	Adam Smith: Father of Economics by Jesse Norman	Sept 11
Benjamin Rsh	Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation by Harlow Unger	Sept 11
Benjamin Rush	Rush, Revolution, Madness and Benjamin Rush: The Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried	Sept 4
Fred Rogers	The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King	Sept 4
Hubert Humphrey	Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country by Arnold Offner	Aug 21
Arthur Ashe	Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault	Aug 21
Marilyn Monroe	Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon by Charles Casillo	Aug 14
Charles de Gaulle	De Gaulle by Julian Jackson	Aug 13
Albert Gallatin	Jefferson’s Genius: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation From Debt by Gregory May	Aug 7
Julius Caesar	Julius Caesar: A Life by Patrician Southern	Aug 1
Henry Clay	Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President by James Klotter	Aug 1
Nikola Tesla	Prodigal Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla by John O’Neill	July 26
J.R.R. Tolkien	Tolkein: Maker of Middle Earth by Catherine McIlwaine	July 15
Errol Flynn	Errol Flynn: An Epic Life by Kevin McAleer	July 9
George Custer	Custer: The Making of a Young General by Edward Longacre	July 3
Verdi	Verdi: The Man Revealed by John Suchet	July 3
Richard I	Richard the Lionheart: The Crusader King of England by W B Bartlett	July 1
Oscar Wilde	Making Oscar Wilde by Michele Mendelssohn	July 1
Mary Shelley	In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson	June 5
Bruce Lee	Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly	June 5
Queen Eliz I	Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Jane Dismore	June 1
Napoleon III	The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III by Alan Strauss-Schom	May 28
William Allen White	Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White by Charles Delgadillo	May 25
Harvey Milk	Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman	May 22
Warren Spahn	Warren Spahn: A Biography of the Legendary Lefty by Lew Freedman	May 22
Robin Williams	Robin by Dave Itzkoff	May 15
Paul Simon	Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn	May 8
Benedict Arnold	The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life by Joyce Lee Malcolm	May 1
Karl Marx	A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx by Sven-Eric Liedman	May 1
Richard III	Richard III: England’s Most Controversial King by Chris Skidmore	Apr 24
Giuliano de Medici	Giuliano de’ Medici: Machiavelli’s Prince in Life and Art by Josephine Jungic	Apr 13
Francis I	Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda	Apr 10
John Wilkes Booth	John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him by E. Lawrence Abel	Apr 9
Barry White	White Music: The Barry White Story by Tom Rubython	Apr 7
Napoleon	Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810 (Vol 2) by Michael Broers	Apr 3
Eunice Kennedy	Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara	Apr 3
Jim Wright	Speaker Jim Wright: Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics by J. Brooks Flippen	Apr 1
Anne Boleyn	Anne Boleyn: Adultery, Heresy, Desire by Amy Licence	Apr 1
Mark Twain	The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years (Vol 1) by Gary Scharnhorst	Mar 30
Tiger Woods	Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict	Mar 27
Zbigniew Brzezinski	Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist by Justin Vaisse	Mar 26
Meriwether Lewis	Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis by Patricia Tyson Stroud	Mar 23
Agatha Christie	Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson	Mar 6
Apostle Paul	Paul: A Biography by N. T. Wright	Feb 27
Billy Graham	A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story by William Martin	Feb 20
John Marshall	Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul	Feb 20	Third party reviews
Frederick Douglass	Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet by D H Dilbeck	Feb 14
Princess Margaret	Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts by Christopher Warwick	Feb 6
Kirk Kerkorian	The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Dealmaker in Capitalist History by William Rempel	Jan 23
Henry III	Henry III: The Great King England Never Knew It Had by Darren Baker	Jan 1

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