Biography: General

Contemporary of Vasari's hero, Michelangelo, and like him a sculptor as much as a painter, Domenico Beccafumi could nonetheless hardly present a mo...

Brenda Chamberlain lived a life of artistic engagement with the world. She published a compelling body of literary work and held solo exhibitions i...

Abram Games (1914-96) was one of the twentieth century's most innovative and important graphic designers. In his 60-year career he designed some of...

Sh!thouse is one fierce read. And I mean fierce in the best of ways- fiercely honest, fiercely funny and fiercely loving. Lisa Fugard, author of Sk...

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood . . . back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame . . . back home to ...

This is a book of adventure and travel. It is also a memoir, reflecting the author's love for the people and the land, but do not expect a sentimen...

A young southern family moves from the hills of small-town West Virginia to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1939 and enters a new social stratum. After s...

In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter st...