Biography: Showing 1 to 25 of 66 results sorted by Newest to oldest

How Will the Heart Endure

Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War

By Heather Bryant Jordan
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Biography

The Lives of Cato the Younger from Ancient Rome to Modern America

By Thomas E. Strunk
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Political Science, Biography

The influence of the philosopher, traitor, and statesman from antiquity to present day

A Fly in the Soup

Memoirs

By Charles Simic
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Biography, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

When Charlie Met Joan

The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law

By Diane Kiesel
Subjects: Biography, History, American History

Exploring the lasting impacts of the Little Tramp’s real-life courtroom drama

Fantasies of Ito Michio

By Tara Rodman
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Japan, Theater and Performance, Biography
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Chronicles Ito Michio’s career and explores how fantasy sustains a life disrupted by war, racialization, and imperialism

Concrete Century

Julius Kahn and the Construction Revolution

By Michael G Smith
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Biography, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

The tale of concrete cities

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

Revised Edition

By Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Jackie Ormes

The First African American Woman Cartoonist

By Nancy Goldstein
Subjects: Biography, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art

Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created

Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures

An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik

The Very Thought of Herbert Blau

By Clark Lunberry & Joseph Roach
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Biography

Leading theater artists and scholars offer reflections on and interpretations of the life and thought of Herbert Blau

A Player and a Gentleman

The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor

Edited by Amy E. Hughes & Naomi J. Stubbs
Subjects: Theater and Performance, History, American History, Biography, Writing

Recaptures antebellum history by tracing the journey of actor and prodigious journal-keeper Harry Watkins

Ellen Stewart Presents

Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre

By Cindy Rosenthal
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, American Studies, African American Studies, Biography

A stunning visual chronicle of New York’s iconic performance venue

Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko

Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989

By Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Biography, Memoir
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An essential companion for Tanizaki scholars and aficionados alike, providing a glimpse of the man from those closest to him

My Life as a Filmmaker

By Satsuo Yamamoto
Translated by Chia-ning Chang
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Biography
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A riveting autobiography of Yamamoto Satsuo (1910–83), one of the most important and critically acclaimed postwar Japanese film directors

Franz Kafka

Subversive Dreamer

By Michael Lowy
Translated by Inez Hedges
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, Jewish Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

An erudite analysis of the critical and subversive dimensions of Kafka’s writings