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2. "After Long Silence"
by Helen Fremont
Growing up Catholic in the Midwest in the decades after World War II, Helen Fremont was always aware that her family was different from others. As an adult she discovered--after a period of relentless research and careful sleuthing--the truth about her parents' early lives in Europe. "After Long Silence" is Fremont's powerful memoir exploring the echoes of her family's secret history, which still resonate half a century later. Read more

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3. "Rembrandt's Eyes"
by Simon Schama
In Simon Schama's skillful hands, Rembrandt's conflicted relationship with fellow painter Peter Paul Rubens, his ambitions, and his great loves emerge--along with the stories of his paintings--from the shadows of history. "Rembrandt's Eyes" is a powerful blend of traditional biography and art history that expands our understanding of the famously mysterious artist. Read more

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4. "Elegy for Iris"
by John Bayley
John Bayley caught his first glimpse of Iris Murdoch in Oxford in 1954, and instantly fell in love. Thus began a partnership that would last almost half a century--even as Murdoch's formidable intellect and imagination were consumed by the "insidious fog" of Alzheimer's. Bayley's "Elegy for Iris" is a tender and provocative portrait of a singular marriage. Read more

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5. "Balthus"
by Nicholas Fox Weber
In "Balthus," biographer Nicholas Fox Weber subjects the painter of such famously controversial and erotically charged works as "The Guitar Lesson" to a rigorous psychological analysis. In this case, he finds that life may well be stranger than art. Read more

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6. "The Velveteen Father"
by Jesse Green
Jesse Green came into fatherhood quite unconventionally: he fell in love with a man who had an adopted infant son. "The Velveteen Father" is his account of the transition-- alternately exhilarating and terrifying--from single gay male to committed father of two young boys. Read more

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7. "Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)"
by Stacy Schiff
"Lolita" novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said: "Most of my works have been dedicated to my wife, and her picture has often been reproduced by some mysterious means of reflected color in the inner mirrors of my books." "Vera," the first fully fleshed portrait of Nabokov's wife, explores the inextricable bond between the two and reveals the profound impact she had on his celebrated work. Read more

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8. "Clear Springs"
by Bobbie Ann Mason
After spending years in New York establishing her writing career and separating from her Southern self, novelist Bobbie Ann Mason ("In Country," "Feather Crowns") heads home to Kentucky. In "Clear Springs," she revisits the people and places of her youth--and discovers that the roots of her stories are firmly planted, as is she, in the fertile ground of the rural South. Read more

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9. "Walker Evans"
by James R. Mellow
"You can't write anything but lies about the past," Walker Evans once said to explain why he would never write a memoir. Still, the photographer was fond of recounting stories about his life and his photos to friends and acquaintances. Veteran biographer James Mellow started with those stories, then mined a wealth of letters, personal papers, and photos to create this definitive biography of the photographer, whose iconic images of midcentury rural America helped usher in the era of modern photography. Read more

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10. "The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition"
by Vaslav Nijinsky
Legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky kept this diary for the fateful weeks in 1917 during which he went mad. Nijinsky, the most famous dancer of his era and the choreographer of "The Rite of Spring," moved out of the public eye and quickly devolved into a rambling, manic, paranoid schizophrenic. This edition is the first to contain the journal in its entirety--his wife had deleted references to his affair with Serge Diaghilev and other passages from earlier editions. Read more

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