"One of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike (18 March 1932 to 27 January 2009) -- a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. A portrait of the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and criti...
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Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike-a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley off...
The first great portrait photographer, a pioneering balloonist, the first person to take an aerial photograph, and the prime mover behind the first airmail service, Nadar was one of the original celebrity artist-entrepreneurs. A kind of 19th-century Andy Warhol, he knew everyone ...
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist. In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, "T...
A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike-a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and workIn this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portr...