She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told.

The Secret Life of Siegfried and Roy reveals the touching, little-known story of how two youngsters founded a friendship, a franchise, and a tempestuous on-and-off love affair that would last a lifetime.

Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.

Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and USA Today Biography of the Year

In this first major biography of one of the greatest Hollywood directors, McCarthy explores Hawks's life and career through his landmark body of work, which includes the films "Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo", and ...

Shirley MacLaine’s discovery of a new sense of purpose, joy, energy, and love will touch and astonish you.”—Literary Guild Magazine An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine takes us on an ...

Clifford Brown is one of the most important trumpet players in the history of jazz, despite dying at the young age of 25 in 1956. He was an accomplished virtuoso, the product of a middle-class, cultivated African American family.

In this extraordinary play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate.

Foreword by Dave Navarro.

This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)--at once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children.