The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look atone family’s experience with mental illness. In 1978, CharlesLachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who livedin the New York suburbs with his wife and nine-year-old son,Nathaniel. But within a few short years, schizophrenia–adevastating mental illness with no known cure–would cost himeverything: his sanity, his career, his family, even the roof overhis head. Upon learning of his father’s death in 1995, Nathanielset out to search for the truth behind his father’s haunted,solitary existence. Rich in imagery and poignant symbolism, TheOutsider is a beautifully written memoir of a father’s struggle tosurvive with dignity, and a son’s struggle to know the father helost to schizophrenia long before he finally lost him todeath. The Outsider is a recipient of the Kenneth Johnson MemorialResearch Library Book Award and is the winner of the 2000 Bell ofHope Award, presented annually by the Mental Health Associatio

A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the bodynow gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about themysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland’sRembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewishgarment worker who came to America in the early years of the lastcentury but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech andmovement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyerruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, andhelpless love that outlasted his death. In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmthand claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world thatimpelled its children toward success yet made them feel liketraitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwaveringobservation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside suchclassics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep .

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman. A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtuallyunknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first televisionplay, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated bothmen from relative obscurity to recognition and began a close andtrusted friendship that lasted until Newman’s death in 2008. In Paul and Me, Hotchner depicts a complicated, unpredictable,fun-loving, talented man, and takes the reader along on theiradventures. The pair traveled extensively, skippered a successionof bizarre boats, confounded the business world, scored triumphs onthe stage, and sustained their friendship through good times andbad. Most notably, they started Newman’s Own as a prank andwatched it morph into a major enterprise that so far has donatedall its $300 million in profit to charities including the Hole inthe Wall Camps worldwide, dedicated to helping thousands ofchildre

Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world'smost eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis islegendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world ofDNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteranof Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate todescribe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundlesscuriosity, he refuses to accept any proposition based on secondhandor hearsay evidence, and always looks for the "money trail" whenscientists make announcements.

Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of threeseparate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin,a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on thephilosopher David Hume; and her long friendship with the writerLeonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and yet endured.Through this unusual journey, Lesser in the end shows us how, onceexamined, things are never quite what she thought they were.

She has a job in Paris, a handsome Frenchman, a beautifulbilingual toddler, and an adorable apartment with breathtakingviews. So why does Catherine Sanderson feel that her life is comingapart? Stuck in a relationship quickly losing its heat, overwhelmedby the burdens of motherhood, and restless in a dead-end job,Catherine reads an article about starting an online diary, and on aslow day at work–voilà–Petite Anglaise is born. But what begins asa lighthearted diversion, a place to muse on the fish-out-of-waterchallenges of expat life, soon gives way to a raw forum whereCatherine shares intimate details about her relationship, herdiscontents, and her most impulsive desires. When one of herreaders–a charming Englishman–tries to get close to the girl behindthe blog, Catherine’s real and virtual personas collide, forcingher to choose between life as she knows it and the possibility ofmore.

On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimedmystery writer P. D. James embarked on an endeavor unlike any otherin her distinguished career: she decided to write a personal memoirin the form of a diary. Over the course of a year she set down notonly the events and impressions of her extraordinarily active life,but also the memories, joys, discoveries, and crises of a lifetime.This enchantingly original volume is the result. Time to Be in Earnest offers an intimate portrait of one of mostaccomplished women of our time. Here are vivid, revealing accountsof her school days in Cambridge in the 1920s and '30s, her happymarriage and the tragedy of her husband's mental illness, and thethrill of publishing her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. Asshe recounts the decades of her exceptional life, James holds forthwith wit and candor on such diverse subjects as the evolution ofthe detective novel, her deep love of the English countryside, herviews of author tours and television adaptati

One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the otherchose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three,the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One wasright-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist.Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals, at the heartof their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell wereessentially the same man. Orwell is best known for "Animal Farm"and "1984," Waugh for "Brideshead Revisited" and comic novels like"Scoop" and "Vile Bodies." How ever different they may seem, thesetwo towering figures of twentieth-century literature are linked forthe first time in this engaging and unconventional biography, whichgoes beyond the story of their amazing lives to reach the core oftheir beliefs-a shared vision that was startlingly prescient aboutour own troubled times. Both Waugh and Orwell were born in 1903,into the same comfortable stratum of England's class-obsessedsociety. But at first glance they seem to have lived

A remarkable annotated collection of previously unpublishedprivate correspondence from the creator of Sherlock Holmes This extraordinary annotated collection of Sir Arthur ConanDoyle’s private correspondence offers unique insight into one ofthe world’s most popular authors. Detailing Conan Doyle’s life fromhis beginnings as a country doctor to his struggle with the successof Sherlock Holmes and his ultimate calling as the foremostspokesman for Spiritualism, Conan Doyle’s letters expose hisinnermost thoughts on literature, world events, and matters of theheart. Under the stewardship of editors renowned for theirexpertise on both Conan Doyle’s life and the Sherlock Holmesstories, this remarkable volume reveals a man whose character andexploits rival that of his famous creation.

This explosive, revelatory history of the early years ofpsychoanalysis shows that the bitterly unresolvable split betweenJung and Freud pivoted around a former patient and lover of Jung'swhose story and own potentially important theoretical contributionsto psychoanalysis were blocked by both men. "A huge scholarly work. . . gripping."--The New York Times.

Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,”made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries evermade. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler andthe Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and liesbehind Riefenstahl’s lifelong self-vindication as an apoliticalartist who claimed to know nothing of the Holocaust and denied hercomplicity with the criminal regime she both used andsanctified. A riveting and illuminating biography of one of the mostfascinating and controversial personalities of the twentiethcentury.

In her introduction to this brilliant and outrageous literarylandmark, Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron'slife and reading, and offers an interpretation of the poem whichdemonstrates its underlying coherence and artistic integrity,despite Byron's mischievous protestations to the contrary. A longchapter on the reception of the poem considers some of the attemptsto imitate or continue it, using them to define what is fundamentalto Byron's own handling of the Don Juan legend.

In 1773, the great Samuel Johnson–then 63–and his young friendand future biographer, James Boswell, traveled together around thecoast of Scotland, each writing his own account of the 83-dayjourney. Published in one volume, the very different travelogues ofthis unlikely duo provide a fascinating picture not only of theScottish Highlands but also of the relationship between two menwhose fame would be forever entwined. Johnson's account contains elegant de*ions and analysesof what was then a remote and rugged land. In contrast, theScottish-born Boswell's journal of the trip focuses on thepsychological landscape of his famously gruff and witty companion,and is part of the material he was already collecting for hisfuture Life of Samuel Johnson, the masterly biography that wouldmake his name. Read together, the two accounts form both a unique classic oftravel writing and a revelation of one of the most famous literaryfriendships.

Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympatheticportrait that will forever change the way we view the most enduringicon of America sexuality. To those who think they have heard allthere is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's booktells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and politicalintrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all itscomplexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the centerof a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the otherplayers are some of the most fascinating characters from the worldsof movies, theater, and politics. It is a book that shines a brightlight on one of the most tumultuous, frightening, and excitingperiods in American culture. Basing her research on new interviews and on thousands of primarydocuments--including revealing letters by Arthur Miller, EliaKazan, John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, DarrylZanuck, Marilyn's psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson, and manyothers--Leaming has rec

Einstein believed in humanity, in a peaceful world of mutualhelpfulness, and in the high mission of science. Intended as a pleafor these beliefs, this book, like no other provides a complete keyto the understanding of this distinguished man's personality.

A Founding Father of the U.S., Franklin was a true Renaissanceman: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, and diplomat. Duringhis life, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized publicinstitutions, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure hiscountry's survival. Collected here are some of his greatest andmost timeless writings.

She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the lastdecade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame asthe best-known female aviator in the world. She set record afterrecord—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman,a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter forwomen's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel.Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the“What Happened to Amelia Earhart?” myth by disclosing who AmeliaEarhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in thenineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals anddreams relevant to the twenty-first.

"A FRESH AND UNVARNISHED PORTRAIT OF A FASCINATING, TALENTED,AND DEEPLY FLAWED FAMILY." —Boston Herald Laurence Leamer was granted unheralded access to private Kennedypapers, and he interviewed family and old friends, many of whom hadnever been interviewed before, for this incredible portrait of thewomen in America’s "royal family." From Bridget Murphy, theforemother who touched shore at East Boston in 1849, to theintelligent, independent Kennedy women of today, Laurence Leamertells their unforgettable stories. Here are the private thoughts of Kathleen, the flirtatiousdebutante in prewar England . . . the truth behind Joe Kennedy’sinsistence that his mildly retarded daughter, Rosemary, belobotomized . . . the real story behind Joan and Ted’s whirlwindromance . . . Jackie’s desire for a divorce from JFK in the 1950s .. . Pat Lawford’s disastrous Hollywood marriage . . . how Carolinediscovered her cousin David’s death by overdose, and more. Tough enough to withstand the un