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ENGAGING LOVECRAFT BIO focuses on social and historical context and impact, sidesteps fandom battles.
Grade: SOLID B
IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS: THE LIFE AND EXTRAORDINARY AFTERLIFE OF H. P. LOVECRAFT
Soft Skull Press
2016
Tags: Biography, Fantasy, Literary History, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews
BEHIND THE MYTHOLOGY of eccentric writer Joe Gould, historian Jill Lepore uncovers a more complicated truth. B PLUS
JOE GOULD’S TEETH
Knopf Publishing Group
2016
ENCHANTING BIOGRAPHY OF Marianne Moore reveals the rich inner life of this famously reserved poet. Wonderful! B PLUS
HOLDING ON UPSIDE DOWN
Farrar
2013
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, Non-Fiction, Poetry
AMAZING STORY OF THE real-life 1889 race around the world between journalists Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Bisland.
Grade: B PLUS
EIGHTY DAYS: NELLIE BLY AND ELIZABETH BISLAND'S HISTORY-MAKING RACE AROUND THE WORLD
Ballantine
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, History, Literary History, Non-Fiction, Travel Writing, Women's Issues
THEATER AND MAGIC HISTORIAN Jim Steinmeyer looks into the inspirations for Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. Spooky fun!
Grade: B PLUS
WHO WAS DRACULA? BRAM STOKER'S TRAIL OF BLOOD
Penguin/Tarcher
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, History, Literary History, Non-Fiction, Theater
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE of Eslanda Robeson, influential writer, civil rights activist, and wife of Paul Robeson.
Grade: B PLUS
ESLANDA: THE LARGE AND UNCONVENTIONAL LIFE OF MRS. PAUL ROBESON
Yale University Press
2013
Tags: Africa, African American Writers, African Diaspora, B Plus Reviews, Biography, Black History, Black Writers, Literary History, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Cultural Commentary
A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race. Thought-provoking and engaging.
Grade: SOLID B
THE FIDDLER ON PANTICO RUN: AN AFRICAN WARRIOR, HIS WHITE DESCENDANTS, A SEARCH FOR FAMILY
Free Press
2012
Tags: Biography, Cameroon, Genealogy, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, US History
THE COMPLICATED CHILDHOODS and eccentric adult lives of Charles Dickens’s nine children, engagingly related.
Grade: SOLID B
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012
Tags: Biography, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
ENGAGING BIOGRAPHY OF architect, artist, antiquarian Sarah Losh, whose 1840s church in Wreay still delights.
Grade: B PLUS
THE PINECONE: THE STORY OF SARAH LOSH, FORGOTTEN ROMANTIC HEROINE---ANTIQUARIAN, ARCHITECT, AND VISIONARY
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Tags: Architecture, Art History, B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Visual Arts, Women's Issues
ABSORBING BIOGRAPHY OF Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance reveals her as fascinating and talented in her own right.
Grade: B PLUS
CONSTANCE: THE TRAGIC AND SCANDALOUS LIFE OF MRS. OSCAR WILDE
Pegasus
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues