Biography: Arts & Entertainment

John Rothenstein, son of Sir William Rothenstein, the celebrated portrait painter, was born in 1901, four years after the Tate Gallery had been fou...

The nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of fourteen, growing up in 40s Wednesbury. The heartbreaking true account of his son strug...

A charming autobiography from the president of the Cannes Film Festival.

On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collap...

___________________6 JULY, 1972David Bowie appears on Top of the Pops for a third time.His quiff is big, bold, and the colour of fire. His make-up ...

Ariana Grande captured the hearts of a nation with her One Love Manchester concert. Less than a fortnight after a terrorist killed twenty-two peopl...

Roy Orbison emerged as an artist alongside his Sun Records contemporaries in the early days of rock 'n' roll. He did not possess the good looks of ...

During her decades-long career in film, author Katherine Ann Wilson has amassed an amazing collection of movie memorabilia from 50 different major ...

Sir Ronald Harwood is one of the foremost playwrights and screenplay writers alive today. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as w...

Zaha Hadid (19502016) was one of the most innovative and celebrated architects of our time. Prepared in collaboration with the architects office, t...

The fourth book in kate spade new yorks successful series, SHE: muses, visionaries and madcap heroines invites readers back into a way of living th...

Brittany Murphy (1977-2009) was an American film, television, and stage actress, singer, voice artist, and film producer. Beginning her career, ...

Welcome to the jungle... When you''ve grown up thinking your twenties are all about working hard, playing hard...

''England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me''MARILYN MONROEIn July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeym...

A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.A New York Times bes...

The first biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Lesliea titan of publishing and an unsung hero of womens suffrageconnecting Gilded Age o...

Now a National Bestseller!You've read the headlines, but you don't know Jamie Lynn Spears. The world first met Jamie Lynn as a child star, when it ...

It began in Hollywood''s golden age when Ava was emerging as a movie star. But she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her ...

As a Ziegfeld Follies girl and film actress, Justine Johnstone (1895-1982) was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in the world. Her career t...

Paris in the summer of 1937. A giant funeral procession wends its way from the city center eastward toward the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, accompanied ...

In this revised edition of his definitive biography of Dolly Parton, Stephen Miller has updated his original book on the superstar. Going behind ...