BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg

The Whole Equation

Series: Jewish Lives

by Kenneth Turan

Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical

by Laurie Winer

Brilliant Exiles

American Women in Paris, 1900–1939

by Robyn Asleson

Contributions by Zakiya R. Adair, Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Samuel N. Dorf and Tirza True Latimer

Arthur Miller

American Witness

Series: Jewish Lives

by John Lahr

Mel Brooks

Disobedient Jew

Series: Jewish Lives

by Jeremy Dauber

Radical Vision

A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry

by Soyica Diggs Colbert

Ibsen's Kingdom

The Man and His Works

by Evert Sprinchorn

Stanley Kubrick

American Filmmaker

Series: Jewish Lives

by David Mikics

Houdini

The Elusive American

Series: Jewish Lives

by Adam Begley

Ben Hecht

Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

Series: Jewish Lives

by Adina Hoffman

A Child of the Century

by Ben Hecht

Introduction by David Denby

Miyazakiworld

A Life in Art

by Susan Napier

Irving Berlin

New York Genius

Series: Jewish Lives

by James Kaplan

Henrik Ibsen

The Man and the Mask

by Ivo de Figueiredo

Groucho Marx

The Comedy of Existence

Series: Jewish Lives

by Lee Siegel

Warner Bros

The Making of an American Movie Studio

Series: Jewish Lives

by David Thomson