Biography from Diatrope Books

Dutton, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. This clear and highly readable account explains the influences that shaped Charles Darwin's life and examines his legacy to science and culture. Chapters are organized by alternating biographical and scientific perspectives. 322p. Measures 6x9.25 inches.

Amazon Crossing, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. Unmarked text. 514p. Measures 5.5x8 inches. Translated by Jane Lizop. Based on an astonishing true story, Between Love and Honor is a sweeping historical novel in the grand style of Alexandre Dumas and a breathtaking love story of sacrifice and devotion.

University of South Carolina Press, 2014. Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x1. Unmarked text. 353p. Measures 6x9 inches. John Andrew Rice Jr. (1888-1968) was the founder and first rector of Black Mountain College, located near Asheville, North Carolina. His autobiography was first published in 1942. This edition includes a new introduction by Mark Bauerlein and an afterword by Rice's grandson… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x10. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) with sun line at spine. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. Translated by Frederika Randall. Maps. Notes. 284p Index. Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor.

Knopf, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 5x1x8. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human. 397p. Measures 6x8.75 inches. Section of color and black-and-white images.

Columbia Healthcare Corporation/HCA, nd. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Lain in complimentary card. 28p. Measures 9.25x12.25 inches. Thomas F. Frist Sr. was a prominent internal medicine specialist in Nashville. His brother was Bill Frist, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007 and Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, 1977. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Extensively illustrated in black-and-white. 56p. Measures 8.5x11 inches. Judah Leon Magnes was a prominent Reform rabbi in both the United States and Mandatory Palestine. Magnes also founded I ud (Unity), an association dedicated to the advancement of Arab-Jewish reconciliation, and advocated an Arab-Jewish state that… Read more about this item

MIT Press, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x0x9. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. This book tells the story of Myra Strober, a labor economist, who confronted personal and systemic professional obstacles to achieve academic success at elite institutions. Index. Foreword by John Donahoe. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. 238p.

A Tehabi Book, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 10x0x9. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Beautifully illustrated with photographs. 224p. Measures 10.25x10 inches. Text by Von Hardesty, curator Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Foreword by Erik Lindbergh.

Henry Holt, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. The definitive biography of Robin Williams

Addison-Wesley, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 108x24x156. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Notes. Index. 239p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. The story of a young girl who rescued herself and her family from a Nazi concentration camp, escaped two Communist regimes, and survived to use her firsthand knowledge of pain, hardship, and conflict to provide psychiatric… Read more about this item

Balboa Press, 2020. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked text. 131p. Measures 6x9 inches. A holocaust refuge, this book chronicles her family's journey to Brazil, the harrowing experiences as they were smuggled to Argentina, the challenges faced in those dictatorship countries and the final immigration to the United States of America when the author was a teenager.

University of Washington Press, McLellan, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 153x100x22. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Black-and-white images. Memoir. As a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France this book tells of her family's survival and the heroism of her rescuers. A powerful central figure is Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who hides… Read more about this item

Grove Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 9x6x1. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. The eminent playwright recalls his long, active, and colorful life from his birth to a newly prosperous family and Depression boyhood through his development as a writer, his marriage, and his controversial political activities. 614p. Measures 6.5x9.5x2 inches. Section with photographs.… Read more about this item

Simon and Schuster, 1952. Hardcover. Good/good. Unmarked text. Worn dust jacket with chipping under clear mylar cover. Foxed end papers. Third printing. 461p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. The war diaries of Bernard Berenson cover 1941-1944. Berenson (1865-1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance.

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Beautifully illustrated. Time line. 40p. Measures 10x10.5 inches. This biography introduces the story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to be the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American ever elected Vice President… Read more about this item

Scribners, 1996. Hardcover. Good/very good. Unmarked text. A few creased pages at the back of the book. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. 364p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) with closed tears on the edge and under clear mylar cover. 105p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization.

Atheneum, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Later printing. Dust jacket (unclipped) with some edge wear and age tanning, under clear mylar cover. Color frontispiece of Vita Sackville-West in 1918 by William Strang. Index. Chronology. 2 sections of photographs. 250p. Measures 5.75x10.75 inches.

Innovative Eggz, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Unabridged student-sized 8.5x11 inch reproduction of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. The writing is an honest self-evaluation of the man who drafted the Declaration of Independence and negotiated the peace treaty with Britain. 45p.