Literární biografie v angličtině

Douglas Hurd

Paul Kalanithi

Annie Ernaux

Haruki Murakami

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such…

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and…

Maya Angelou

Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in racially charged Arkansas in the 1930s brings to vivid life a world which most Americans…

Joan Didion

Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into…

Audre Lorde

Agatha Christie

Annie Ernaux

Jaroslav Najman

This book describes – in English - the author's emigration from Czechoslovakia triggered by a historical event in August 1968. All events in this book are based on recollection of the author's memories…

Susanna Kaysen

James Baldwin

Garrard Conley

Tara Westover

Abraham Verghese, Paul Kalanithi

Joan Didion

Kamala Harris

Malcolm X

Originally published by Grove Press in 1965.

Gianni Rodari

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Paperback edition of the autobiography from the bodybuilder turned actor turned businessman turned politician. Chronicles his embodiment of the American Dream, including his high-stakes journey to the…

David Sheff

James Baldwin

Sounds a clarion warning to the world.

Dan Morain