Honor roll:Biography books
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Each of these Biography books has received at least one award nomination. They are ranked by honors received.
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
- 2006 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2006 Macavity-Nonfiction winner
- 2005 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
- 2006 Anthony-Critical nominee
- Score: 36.56
A plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Now, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery:
Who created Nancy…
Master of the Senate: Volume 3 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- 2003 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- 2002 LATimes–Biography winner
- 2002 NBA–Nonfiction winner
- 2002 NBCC–Biography finalist
- Score: 36.53
Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to…
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley
- 2008 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2007 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
- 2008 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2008 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 32.58
This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world’s most popular authors. For the first time, Conan Doyle emerges from the shadow of Sherlock Holmes, revealing a man whose character and exploits rival that of his famous creation. In particular, Conan Doyle’s correspondence with his mother exposes his endless search for fulfillment and success outside the Holmes stories.
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
- 2000 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 1999 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
- 2000 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2000 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 32.5
This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the leg of Baker…
De Kooning: An American Master
- 2005 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- 2004 LATimes–Biography winner
- 2004 NBCC–Biography winner
- Score: 30.55
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.
The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic…
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
- 1997 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- 1996 LATimes–Biography winner
- 1996 NBCC–Biography winner
- Score: 30.47
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father,…
Parting the Waters: Volume 1 of America in the King Years, 1954-1963
- 1989 LATimes–Current Interest winner
- 1989 Pulitzer–History winner
- 1988 NBCC–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 30.39
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.
Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of King’s rise to greatness and illuminates the…
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
The climax of this humane account of 10 years in Boston that began with news of Martin Luther King’s assassination, is a watershed moment in the city’s modern history—the 1974 racist riots that followed the court-ordered busing of kids to integrate the schools. To bring understanding to that moment, Lukas, a former New York Times journalist, focuses on two working-class families, headed by an Irish-American widow and an African-American mother, and on the middle-class family of a white liberal couple. Lukas goes beyond stereotypes, carefully grounding each…
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Vol 1 and 2. The Complete Short Stories
Leslie S. Klinger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 2005 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2005 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2005 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2004 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 28.55
A cause for international celebration—the most important Sherlock Holmes publication in four decades.
This monumental edition promises to be the most important new contribution to Sherlock Holmes literature since William Baring-Gould’s 1967 classic work. In this boxed set, Leslie Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions. Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Klinger’s…
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
- 2004 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2004 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2004 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2003 Whitbread-Biography shortlist
- Score: 28.54
The first and highly anticipated biography of the author of such classics of suspense as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her “peerlessly disturbing” writing. Yet even as her work—her thrillers, short stories, and the pseudonymous lesbian novel The Price of Salt—have found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery.
For Beautiful Shadow, the…
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