by Olimpiu G. Urcan and Peter Michael Braunwarth (2011)
"This book explores the life and chess career of Arthur Kaufmann, a Romanian-born grandmaster-level player of the 1900s and 1910s. The book also offers an unprecedented and extensive account of Kaufmann's close relationship with Arthur Schnitzler, the famed Austrian dramatist, whose diary offers important clues to Kaufmann's life and work as a philosopher"--Provided by publisher.
Nellie Connally and Mickey Herskowitz
The wife of the late governor of Texas, John Connally, offers her eyewitness version of the Kennedy assassination, sharing her personal diary of the events that unfolded both before and following November 22, 1963.
Mardi Jo Link
"An inspiring and heartfelt memoir about the friendship between eight women forged over two decades. The eight Drummond Girls first met in 1991 at Peegeo's Food & Spirits in northern Michigan where, at the time, they were all waitresses, bartenders, or regular customers. When one of them got engaged, they celebrated with a trip to Drummond Island-- their first trip together to the remote 36-mile chunk of rock, dive bars, dirt roads, and beautiful forests-- and it's where they became bonded forever." --
Jack Loeffler
A memoir written by one of Edward Abbey's closest friends explores the life of the influential author and environmental activist.
Richard Elman
"These are Richard Elman's candid snapshots in prose of the various, mostly literary celebrities he encountered during his four decades as a working writer and journalist - among them Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Faye Dunaway, Hunter S. Thompson, and other important artists and writers who were Elman's teachers and, occasionally, adversaries."--BOOK JACKET.