Balzac
by Stefan Zweig | 
Victor Hugo
by Graham Robb | 
Samuel Beckett
by Anthony Cronin | 
Tony Hancock
by John Fisher | 
The Knox Brothers
by Penelope Fitzgerald | 
Dorothy Day
by William Miller |
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
by Selina Hastings |
Tom
by Lyle Leverich |
The Lonely Hunter
by Virginia Spencer Carr |
Gore Vidal
by Fred Kaplan |
The Kindness of Strangers
by Donald Spoto |
Anthony Trollope
by Victoria Glendinning |
Eudora Welty
by Suzanne Marrs |
A Rage to Live
by Mary S. Lovell |
A Pilgrim in the Ruins
by Jay Tolson | 
Bonhoeffer
by Eric Metaxas |
At My Mother's Knee... And Other Low Joints
by Paul O'Grady | 
Like the Roman
by Simon Heffer |
Memoirs
by Pablo Neruda | 
Unbreak My Heart
by Toni Braxton |
This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of The New Yorker tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made the magazine such a popular and critical success. Photos & cartoons.