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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

by Patton Oswalt – Scribner (January 06, 2015)

The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a ?heartfelt and hilarious? (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively...

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

by Patton Oswalt – Scribner (January 04, 2011)

Prepare yourself for a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, one of the most creative, insightful, and hysterical voices on the entertain­ment scene today. Widely known for his roles in the films Big...

Bob Dylan

by Seth Rogovoy – Scribner (November 24, 2009)

Bob Dylan and his artistic accomplishments have been explored, examined, and dissected year in and year out for decades, and through almost every lens. Yet rarely has anyone delved extensively into Dylan's Jewish...

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

by Anjelica Huston – Scribner (November 19, 2013)

Anjelica Huston?s ?gorgeously written? (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is ?an elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life?A classic? (Vanity Fair).

In her first, dazzling...

She Come By It Natural

by Sarah Smarsh – Scribner (October 13, 2020)

The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland focuses her laser-sharp insights on a working-class icon and one of the most unifying figures in American culture: Dolly Parton....

More Than Love

by Natasha Gregson Wagner – Scribner (May 05, 2020)

The heartbreaking, never-before-told story of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood’s glamorous life, sudden death, and lasting legacy, written by her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner.

More Than Love is a memoir of loss,...

Hollywood's Eve

by Lili Anolik – Scribner (January 08, 2019)

Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world?a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA, and Vanity Fair writer...

My Squirrel Days

by Ellie Kemper – Scribner (October 09, 2018)

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated...

Full Frontal Nudity

by Harry Hamlin – Scribner (October 05, 2010)

IN 2008, as he attempted to enter Canada to film a television series, Harry Hamlin?the former star of L.A. Law and once People magazine?s Sexiest Man Alive?was detained at the border for unresolved narcotics...

I Walked the Line

by Vivian Cash & Ann Sharpsteen – Scribner (September 04, 2007)

I Walked the Line is a chronicle of first love, long-kept secrets, betrayal, forgiveness, and the truth--told at last by Johnny Cash's first wife, the mother of his four daughters. It is a book that had the...

Here We Go Again

by Betty White – Scribner (October 12, 2010)

A memoir of Betty White's first five decades on television?as irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herself?filled “with inspiring cheerfulness” (The New York Times).

Betty White first appeared...

No Way Home

by Carlos Acosta – Scribner (May 06, 2008)

Carlos Acosta, the Cuban dancer considered to be one of the world's greatest performers, fearlessly depicts his journey from adolescent troublemaker to international superstar in his captivating memoir, No Way...

Born Standing Up

by Steve Martin – Scribner (November 20, 2007)

The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.

In the mid-seventies,...

Beginnings

by Horton Foote – Scribner (April 25, 2002)

Since 1939, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the experience of American life both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird...

Gonna Do Great Things

by Gary Fishgall – Scribner (June 15, 2010)

A major reappraisal of the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., Gonna Do Great Things is at once an intimate portrait and an exuberant celebration of a wholly American icon. Through his multifaceted...

A Life in Parts

by Bryan Cranston – Scribner (October 11, 2016)

“Nothing short of riveting...an engrossing first-person account by one of our finest actors” (Huffington Post)?both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft?Bryan Cranston,...

Wear and Tear

by Tracy Tynan – Scribner (July 12, 2016)

?Tracy Tynan uses the universal medium of clothing to tell the highly specific story of her bohemian British upbringing, and she does so with wit, candor, and yes?style? (Lena Dunham).

Tracy Peacock Tynan grew...

All These Things That I've Done

by Matt Pinfield & Mitchell Cohen – Scribner (September 06, 2016)

“The most trusted opinion in rock music” (Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins), Matt Pinfield offers the ultimate music fan’s memoir, an “entertaining and insightful” (Clive Davis) chronicle of the...

MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson

by Steve Knopper – Scribner (October 06, 2015)

The definitive biography of Michael Jackson, a ?vivid?gripping...authoritative account of a world-changing force of nature? (Rolling Stone), celebrating the King of Pop?s legendary contributions to music, dance,...

Alexander McQueen

by Andrew Wilson – Scribner (September 01, 2015)

The first, definitive biography of the iconic, notoriously private British fashion designer Alexander McQueen ?offers new insights...and provides unprecedented access to a misunderstood soul? (The Boston Globe...