biographies

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Memoir by Carlo Levi, published in 1945, giving an account of his exile from 1935-1936 to Grassano and Aliano, remote towns in southern Italy, in the region of Lucania which is known today as Basilicata

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges

84, Charing Cross Road

1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play, and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London, England.

Founding Brothers

Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History

Enemies of Promise

Critical and autobiographical work written by Cyril Connolly first published in 1938.It comprises three parts, the first dedicated to Connolly’s observations about English literature and the English literary world of his time, the second a list of adverse elements that affect the ability to be a good writer and the last an account of Connolly’s early life

A Personal Record

Autobiographical work by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.
It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences