Literary

Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life

Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour

My Reading Life:

Poe: A Life Cut Short

Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives

My Losing Season:

Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings

Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams

Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Critical Lives: Muhammad:

Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love

Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic