Memoirs & Journals

They called him the 'angriest black man in America'... Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for milli...

translated by Sanford Goldstein and Kazuji Ninomiya Noe Ito came of age during Japan's Taisho era (1912-26), a period of widespread unrest and radi...

Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 a...

translated by Lady Wallace Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. ...

When Marco Pierre White's mother died when he was just six years old, it transformed his life. Soon, his father was urging him to earn his own keep...

James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and givin...

Andy Warhol - American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement - was in many ways a reluctant celebrity. Here...