46 books in Biography & Autobiography - Gay & Lesbian
Subscribe to our RSS/XML feed with web-based news readers.
Click your choice:
Find more Biography & Memoir books by browsing the categories below.
|
|||
Dreadful
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $28.95
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor... Read more >
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $28.95
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Dreadful
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $22.99
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor... Read more >
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $22.99
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter
Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Written by Alison Wearing
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Written by Alison Wearing
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love.
Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
|
||||
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter
Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Written by Alison Wearing
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $24.00
Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Written by Alison Wearing
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $24.00
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love.
Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had...
Also available as an
eBook.
|
||||
Outlaw Marriages
The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Written by Rodger Streitmatter
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $16.00
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many... Read more >
The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Written by Rodger Streitmatter
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $16.00
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many... Read more >
|
||||
She's Not There
A Life in Two Genders
Written by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $14.95
The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan’s fresh voice... Read more >
A Life in Two Genders
Written by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $14.95
The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan’s fresh voice... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
She's Not There
A Life in Two Genders
Written by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $11.99
The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan’s fresh voice... Read more >
A Life in Two Genders
Written by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $11.99
The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan’s fresh voice... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Stuck in the Middle with You
A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
Written by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contribution by Anna Quindlen
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $11.99
New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.
A father for ten years, a mother for eight, and for a time in between, neither... Read more >
A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
Written by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contribution by Anna Quindlen
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $11.99
New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.
A father for ten years, a mother for eight, and for a time in between, neither... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
|
||||
Stuck in the Middle with You
A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
Written by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contribution by Anna Quindlen
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $24.00
New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.
A father for ten years, a mother for eight, and for a time in between, neither... Read more >
A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
Written by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contribution by Anna Quindlen
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $24.00
New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.
A father for ten years, a mother for eight, and for a time in between, neither... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
|
||||
Journey to the Abyss
Written by Harry Kessler
Edited by Laird Easton
Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $22.00
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature... Read more >
Written by Harry Kessler
Edited by Laird Easton
Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $22.00
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature... Read more >
|
||||
Farther and Wilder
The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Farther and Wilder
The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.99
The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.99
From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
|
||||
Faitheist
How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
Written by Chris Stedman
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $22.95
The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and... Read more >
How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
Written by Chris Stedman
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $22.95
The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Faitheist
How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
Written by Chris Stedman
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $22.95
The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and... Read more >
How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
Written by Chris Stedman
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $22.95
The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
My Father and Myself
Written by J.R. Ackerley
Introduction by W. H. Auden
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $15.95
When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own—this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded... Read more >
Written by J.R. Ackerley
Introduction by W. H. Auden
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $15.95
When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own—this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
|
||||
Born This Way
Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Written by Paul Vitagliano
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $14.95
Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Written by Paul Vitagliano
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $14.95
Based on the hugely popular blog of the same name, Born This Way shares 100 different memories of growing up LGBTQ. Childhood photographs are accompanied by sweet, funny, and at times heartbreaking personal stories. Collected from around the world and dating from the 1940s to today, these memories speak to the...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Born This Way
Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Written by Paul Vitagliano
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $14.95
Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Written by Paul Vitagliano
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $14.95
Based on the hugely popular blog of the same name, Born This Way shares 100 different memories of growing up LGBTQ. Childhood photographs are accompanied by sweet, funny, and at times heartbreaking personal stories. Collected from around the world and dating from the 1940s to today, these memories speak to the...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
|
||||
Outlaw Marriages
The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Written by Rodger Streitmatter
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $26.95
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many... Read more >
The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Written by Rodger Streitmatter
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $26.95
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Outlaw Marriages
The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Written by Rodger Streitmatter
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $26.95
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many... Read more >
The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Written by Rodger Streitmatter
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $26.95
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
|
||||
David Hockney
The Biography
Written by Christopher Simon Sykes
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $35.00
The Biography
Written by Christopher Simon Sykes
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $35.00
Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern...
Also available as an
eBook.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
David Hockney
The Biography
Written by Christopher Simon Sykes
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $18.99
The Biography
Written by Christopher Simon Sykes
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $18.99
Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern...
Also available as a
hardcover.
|
||||
Left-handed
Poems
Written by Jonathan Galassi
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $26.00
An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.
Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale.
These... Read more >
Poems
Written by Jonathan Galassi
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $26.00
An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.
Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale.
These... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Left-handed
Poems
Written by Jonathan Galassi
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $13.99
An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.
Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale.
These... Read more >
Poems
Written by Jonathan Galassi
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $13.99
An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.
Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale.
These... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
|
||||
Journey to the Abyss
The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918
Written by Harry Kessler
Edited by Laird Easton
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $45.00
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature... Read more >
The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918
Written by Harry Kessler
Edited by Laird Easton
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $45.00
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Journey to the Abyss
The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918
Written by Harry Kessler
Edited by Laird Easton
Format: eBook, 960 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $16.99
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature... Read more >
The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918
Written by Harry Kessler
Edited by Laird Easton
Format: eBook, 960 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $16.99
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
View pages: 1 | 2
Page 1 of 2
