Biographies About
Acclaimed Authors

More fascinating than fiction, the true stories of award-winning
and best-selling novelists are sure to keep you riveted.

When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: He wrote....

In My Life as My Self, Alice Walker takes you into her private world and summons the powerful spirits and events that have shaped her life....

What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings....

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition....

In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd....

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist....

With characteristic insight and charm, Hood showcases the ways in which books gave her life and can transform - even save - our own....

This is a biography of James Baldwin, author, one-time preacher, and civil rights activist. He chose David Leeming, a close friend and colleague, to write his biography....

This memoir is the chronicle of a life’s work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories....

Ralph F. Voss examines Capote and In Cold Blood from many perspectives, not only as the crowning achievement of Capote's career, but also as a story in itself....

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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....

The author of Bel Canto turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy....

A bold, wry, and intimate memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us....

Midnight is a study in the courage of three women - Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc....

From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father....

The true but unlikely stories of lives devoted - absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully! - to the Russian classics....

Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim....

Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union....

Hosted by Wayne Shepherd, an Oasis Audio original production with today’s top Christian authors sharing their favorite verses....