Biography

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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

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

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
 

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

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

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

James Jesse Strang

The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Mormon King

By Don Faber
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, Biography, History, American Religious History, Religion

The extraordinary life of one of the Mormon church’s early leaders
 

Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup

A Spirited Black Woman in a White World

By Gwendolyn Calvert Baker
Subjects: African American Studies, Memoir, Race and Ethnicity, Biography

A memoir by acclaimed educator and leader Gwendolyn Calvert Baker exploring her life and work

Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption

By E. Wayne Carp
Subjects: History, American History, Psychology, Literary Studies, American Literature, Biography, American Studies, Sociology

One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people

Arthur Miller

1962-2005

By Christopher Bigsby
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Biography, Literary Studies, American Literature, Michigan and the Great Lakes

The second volume in the definitive biography of the acclaimed playwright

The Martian's Daughter

A Memoir

By Marina Whitman
Subjects: Biography, History

The memoir of Marina von Neumann Whitman

Hammarskjöld

A Life

By Roger Lipsey
Subjects: History, Biography

The definitive biography of Dag Hammarskjöld

Dameronia

The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron

By Paul Combs
Subjects: African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The first authoritative biography of jazz great Tadd Dameron

Living the Faith

A Life of Tom Monaghan

By James Leonard
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, American Studies, Biography

A balanced biography of one of America's most fascinating and controversial business and religious figures

Jean Valentine

This-World Company

By Mohammed Kazim Ali & John Hoppenthaler
Subjects: Literary Studies, Biography
Series: Under Discussion

Collected essays on the work of Jean Valentine

Music Is My Life

Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz

By Daniel Stein
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Media Studies, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong’s autobiographical practices

Elly Peterson

"Mother" of the Moderates

By Sara Fitzgerald
Subjects: Biography, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Politics, History, History, American History

The life and political history of a woman who broke gender barriers in the Republican party—and later threw her support to a Democrat

The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts

By John G Pedley
Subjects: American Studies, Archaeology, Biography, Classical Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes

If Indiana Jones had relied on trains . . .

The Windward Shore

A Winter on the Great Lakes

By Jerry Dennis
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Biography

The new book from the author of celebrated books on the Great Lakes

As If

An Autobiography

By Herbert Blau
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Memoir, Biography

A legendary figure in American theater looks back

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