Bios and Memoirs Audio Books

Sherwin Nuland
Leonardo da Vinci (Unabridged)

In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist....

Jonathan Kozol
Letters to a Young Teacher (Unabridged)

In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first-grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom....

Martha E. Schaaf
Lew Wallace: Boy Writer (Unabridged)

Lew Wallace gained world-wide fame as the author of the best-selling novel, Ben Hur....

Spalding Gray
Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue (Unabridged)

The monologue that Spalding Gray was working on when he died in the early winter of 2004....

Kathleen Krull
Lives of the Artists: Masterpieces, Messes (and What the Neighbors Thought)

Whether visiting museums and galleries or taking Art History courses, we often marvel at the brilliant...

Kathleen Krull
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

This is no stuffy music appreciation lesson. Author Kathleen Krull makes these great artists come alive...

Kathleen Krull
Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)

Twenty literary luminaries, ranging from Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare to Louisa May Alcott...

Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
Living Biographies of Famous Women (Unabridged)

The women in this book played important roles in history, and their accomplishments span a range of fields, including the literary, the political and the medical....

Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
Living Biographies of Great Composers (Unabridged)

To appreciate the beauty of great works of music, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who composed them....

Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
Living Biographies of Great Painters (Unabridged)

To appreciate great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them....