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|  | The Lucy Book by Geoffrey M. Fidelman
, The Lucy Book comprehensively covers the television career of this phenomenally popular icon. 50 photos. AUTHOR: Geoffrey M. Fidelman
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Florence Nightingale by Sue M. Goldie
Writing from the Crimea where she nursed wounded soldiers, Florence Nightingale through her letters tirelessly pushed for reforms that would improve the welfare of the troops and recruited volunteer nurses. From her correspondence emerges an extraordinary self-portrait of a complex and contradictory personality, very different from the heroine of popular myth. Illustrations. AUTHOR: Sue M. Goldie
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about it. ANGELA'S ASHES traces the tortuous path of his life from his days in abysmal poverty in Limerick, Ireland, to his arrival in New York as a teenager, eager to start a new life. AUTHOR: Frank McCourt
PUBLISHER: Gale Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Memoirs of an Unfit Mother by Anne Robinson
A journalist for London's Daily Mirror recalls her descent into alcoholism, and its eventual role in losing custody of her beloved child. AUTHOR: Anne Robinson
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | W. E. B. DuBois by David Levering Lewis
This is the second volume of David Levering Lewis`s magisterial biography of Du Bois. It examines the second part of his long life, including his break with and later reconciliation with the NAACP, the development of his socialist views, his role in American political life, and his fluctuating reputation and influence. It covers the years of the Harlem Renaissance through the Cold War to his death in the `60s. AUTHOR: David Levering Lewis
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
With her father off fighting in World War II, and her mother engaged in a self-involved abandonment of her parental duties, the late British literary critic Sage (1943-2001) was raised at her grandparents' gloomy vicarage. In this wry memoir she tells why she embraced books instead of her bitter family. AUTHOR: Lorna Sage
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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