BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women

Cleopatra

Her History, Her Myth

Ancient Lives

by Francine Prose

Ruth

A Migrant’s Tale

Jewish Lives

by Ilana Pardes

A Good and Dignified Life

The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

by Joke J Hermsen

Translated by Brendan Monaghan

Playing with Fire

The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia

by Elizabeth Wilson

Domina

The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

by Guy de la Bédoyère

Claretta

Mussolini's Last Lover

by R. J. B. Bosworth

Minerva's French Sisters

Women of Science in Enlightenment France

by Nina Rattner Gelbart

Eliza Lucas Pinckney

An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution

by Lorri Glover

Matilda

Empress, Queen, Warrior

by Catherine Hanley

Calamity

The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

by Karen R. Jones

Mrs Delany

A Life

by Clarissa Campbell Orr

Princess of the Hither Isles

A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

by Adele Logan Alexander

That Other World

Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile

by Azar Nafisi

Translated by Lotfali Khonji

Edited by Valerie Miles

Whistler's Mother

Portrait of an Extraordinary Life

by Daniel E. Sutherland and Georgia Toutziari

The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

by Ann M. Little

Barbra Streisand

Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

Jewish Lives

by Neal Gabler