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Spring 2001 Book List Edited by Laurele Riippa. Compiled by Lynn Andriani, Dena Croog, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Julia Moberg, Karole Riippa and Bella Stander. -- 1/22/01 Trade Paperback Biography &Memoirs A-F | G-L | M-R | S-Z A-F ABRAMS Matisse: Father &Son (June, $19.95) by John Russell depicts the great artist and his art dealer son. AKADINE PRESS (dist. by Trafalgar Square) Reprint: The Search for Michael Rockefeller (Mar., $18.95) by Milt Machlin. ALGONQUIN Reprint: Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (June, $12.95) by Esmé Raji Codell. 30,000 first printing. ALLEN &UNWIN (dist. by IPG) When Elephants Fight (Apr., $15.95) by Vannary Imam. Amid three generations of a Cambodian family, a woman forges a new life out of the killing fields. ALYSON Keep Singing (May, $13.95) by Nicole Brodeur et al. Two mothers whose sons died of AIDS form a PAC to combat homophobia and Sen. Jesse Helms. ANACUS PRESS The Adventure of Two Lifetimes (Mar., $16.95) by Brian and Peggy G tz. A daughter and son-in-law repeat her parents' bicycle trek from New York to California. ANCHOR Reprint: In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (Apr., $12) by Irene Gut Opdyke. BACKBEAT (formerly Miller Freeman) Jeff Beck: Crazy Fingers (Mar., $15.95) by Annette Carson profiles the guitarist who changed the boundaries of rock in 1965. BALLANTINE Reprint: Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography (Mar., $12.95) by P.D. James. BERKLEY Reprint: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (May, $13) by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins. BHB INTERNATIONAL Kinkaseki: One Day at a Time (Apr., $17.50) by Arthur Titherington is an account of the author's incarceration in a Japanese POW forced-labor camp. BIRLINN (dist. by Dufour Editions) John Knox (May, $19.95) by Rosalind Marshall limns the Scottish theologian. BLACKWELL The Life of W.B. Yeats (Apr., $25.95) by Terence Brown addresses the alienation from the modern world that influenced the p t. The Life of Thomas Hardy (Apr., $25.95) by Paul Turner demonstrates that the author's career was a triumph of self-help. BRASSEY'S Reprints: The Gulf Between Us: A Love Story (May, $18.95) by Cynthia B. Acree with Col. Cliff Acree; A Chain of Events: The Government Cover-Up of the Black Hawk Incident and the Friendly-Fire Death of Lt. Laura Piper (July, $18.95) by Joan L. Piper. BROADMAN &HOLMAN Child of Promise (Apr., $12.99) by Cheryl Green. A woman survives disability, abuse, depression and loneliness to become a role model for all. BROADWAY BOOKS Reprint: The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood (June, $14) by Tom King. CITY LIGHTS Book of Dreams (May, $17.95) by Jack Kerouac expands the author's record of his dream life to include the complete manuscript. 15,000 first printing. San Francisco Beat: Talking with the P ts (May, $19.95), edited by David Meltzer. Interviews with 13 writers form an archive of the beat generation. 15,000 first printing. COOPER SQUARE PRESS Reprint: Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (June, $19.95) by Michael Collins. DTP/DELTA Reprints: Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Mar., $14.95) by Gerald Clarke; Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain (June, $TBA) by Michael Paterniti. 50,000 first printing. DOVER Frank Lloyd Wright: Recollections by Those Who Knew Him (Mar., $16.95), edited by Edgar Tafel, includes memories of apprentices, friends, clients and family. DUCKWORTH/DUCK EDITIONS (dist. by IPM) Diary of a Man in Despair: A Masterpiece About the Comprehension of Evil (Apr., $15.95) by Freidrich Reck-Malleczewen is the diary of a martyred anti-Nazi Russian aristocrat. FARRAR, STRAUS &GIROUX The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader (June, $15), edited by Gerald Early, draws from Playboy, the NewYorker and elsewhere. Reprints: Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself (Apr., $13) by C.K. Williams; Greene on Capri (June, $13) by Shirley Hazzard; The Village of Waiting (Aug., $15) by George Packer. FSG/FABER &FABER Mendelssohn Remembered (July) by Roger Nichols and Berlioz Remembered (July, $16 each) by Michael Rose portray both the personal and professional lives of the two composers. FEMINIST PRESS Under the Rose: A Confession (Apr.; $15.95, cloth $25.95) by Flavia Alaya reveals a decades-long secret love affair between the author and a Roman Catholic priest. FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS Reprint: The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman (Mar., $13.50) by Abbie Hoffman. G-L GRAPHIC ARTS CENTER Exploring the Unknown: Historic Diaries of Bradford Washburn's Alaska/Yukon Expeditions (May; $19.95, cloth $27.95) contains Washburn's photos and previously unpublished writings. GROVE PRESS A Drink with Shane McGowan (Apr., $13.50) by Shane McGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke. McGowan was a cofounder of the Pogues. 25,000 first printing. Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr. (Aug., $13) by William S. Burroughs Jr., edited by David Ohle, is the autobiography of the man who called himself "son of Naked Lunch." HARCOURT/HARVEST Reprint: Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire (June, $14) by Murry A. Taylor. 35,000 first printing. HARPERCOLLINS/CLIFF STREET Reprint: Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (Apr., $20) by George Weigl. HOUGHTON/MARINER Reprints: Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years (Apr., $15) by Jane Goodall; Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had (June, $10) by Rick Bass. HYPERION Reprint: Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan (May, $14) by Scott Simon. LITTLE, BROWN/BACK BAY Reprint: Andy Kaufman Revealed! Best Friend Tells All (Apr., $13.95) by Bob Zmuda with Matthew Scott Hansen. M-R MILKWEED EDITIONS An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation Ecologist (July; $12, cloth $25) by John Nichols traces the writer's conversion to his belief in a radical social and environmental commitment. MOUNTAIN PRESS Sacagawea's Son: The Life of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (Apr., $16) by Marion Tinling documents adventures in the American West and in Europe. NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS Reprints: Around the World Submerged: The Voyage of the Triton (Mar., $17.95) by Capt. Edward L. Beach; Reminiscences (Mar., $19.95) by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. W.W. NORTON Reprints: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Apr., $13.95) by Chanrithy Him; Basil Street Blues (May, $13.95) by Michael Holroyd. OHIO UNIV. PRESS Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman (Apr.; $17.95, cloth $44.95), edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen, is an oral history of the daughter of former slaves who became a civil rights advocate. PENGUIN Reprints: Forever Liesl: A Memoir of The Sound of Music (Apr., $12) by Charmian Carr. 50,000 first printing; Life Is So Good (June, $14) by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman. 70,000 first printing. PLOUGH PUBLISHING On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal (Mar., $12) by Terry Bisson profiles the death-row journalist, one of the world's best-known political prisoners. PLUME Reprint: Katie.com (June, $12) by Katherine Tarbox. POCKET BOOKS Reprints: The Camino (Apr., $13.95) by Shirley MacLaine; No Such Thing as a Bad Day (May, $12.95) by Hamilton Jordan; On Writing (June, $12.95) by Stephen King. PRESIDIO PRESS Reprint: Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941--A Navy Diver's Memoir (May, $17.95) by Commander Edward C. Raymer. RENAISSANCE BOOKS Reprint: Linda McCartney: A Portrait (Apr., $15.95) by Danny Fields. RUMINATOR BOOKS An Algerian Childhood (Apr., $24), edited by Leila Sebbar, anthologizes childhood stories predating Algeria's independence from France. S-Z SCHOCKEN Reprint: In This Dark House (Aug., $12) by Louise Keh . SCHOLARLY RESOURCES John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union (Mar., $17.95) by James E. Lewis Jr. reviews the ideas that shaped his policies, successes and failures. SHERMAN ASHER How I Find Her: A Mother's Dying and a Daughter's Life (Mar., $15) by Genie Zeiger chronicles an elderly mother's slow decline. S&S/TOUCHSTONE Reprints: The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore (June, $13) by David Maraniss; Change Me into Zeus's Daughter (Aug., $14) by Barbara Robinette Moss. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony (Apr., $17.95) by George Hendrick, Helen Howe and Don Sackrider recalls the group's star pupil. SUTTON PUBLISHING Reprint: Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford--The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius (Mar., $12.95) by G.I. Brown. THUNDER'S MOUTH PRESS What Did I Do? The Unauthorized Autobiography of Larry Rivers (May, $18.95) by Larry Rivers with Arnold Weinstein takes in four decades of New York's postwar cultural explosion. TILBURY HOUSE Antiqueman's Diary: The Memoirs of Fred B. Tuck (Mar., $20), edited by Dean Fales, is by one of Maine's first antique dealers. TRAVELERS' TALES The Rivers Ran East (Apr., $15.95) by Leonard Clark recounts an exploration of the South American rain forest in the early 1950s. Reprint: One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children (May, $14.95) by David Elliot Cohen. TURTLE POINT PRESS (dist. by D.A.P.) Charles Henri Ford: Water from a Bucket (July, $16.95) by Charles Henri Ford presents, for the first time, diaries and letters by the editor of the journal View. UNIV. OF CHICAGO PRESS Liberace: An American Boy (May, $18) by Darden Asbury Pyron recounts the life of the flamboyant entertainer. UNIV. OF OKLAHOMA PRESS Reprint: Balsamroot: A Memoir (Apr., $12.95) by Mary Clearman Blew. UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS Reprint: The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, P ts, Musicians and the Wicked Witch of the West (Apr., $17.95) by Wesley Wehr. UNIV. PRESS OF KENTUCKY Reprint: The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir (Apr., $17) by Benjamin Jacobs. VINTAGE Reprint: Experience (June, $14) by Martin Amis. WALKER Reprint: The Danger Tree: Memory, War and the Search for a Family's Past (Apr., $13.95) by David Macfarlane. WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS Reprint: Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo (Mar., $13.95) by Kenn Harper. WOLFHOUND PRESS (dist. by Interlink) Pictures in My Head (Mar., $14.95) by Gabriel Byrne travels from 1950s Dublin to the actor's life in Hollywood today. Fire in My Belly (Mar., $12.95) by Alfred Roach. An ambitious entrepreneur discloses how he attained success. YALE UNIV. PRESS Reprints: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Mar.; $7.95, cloth $20) by Frederick Douglass, edited by John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan and Peter P. Hinks; Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (Mar., $15) by K.M. Elisabeth Murray. A-F | G-L | M-R | S-Z Launch the 2001 Spring Book List Index |
Spring 2001 Book List - Trade Paperback Biography &Memoirs
Jan 22, 2001
A version of this article appeared in the 01/22/2001 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline:
