Skyhorse / Biography & autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts

Shoot to Win

by Chris Cheng, Dustin Ellermann & Iain Harrison – Skyhorse (October 14, 2014)

Chris Cheng won the title of Top Shot,? a $100,000 cash prize, and a professional marksman contract with the show sponsor, Bass Pro Shops. How did a tech support guy who didn?t shoot a lot of guns beat out seventeen...

Dolph Lundgren: Train Like an Action Hero

by Dolph Lundgren & Per Bernal – Skyhorse (September 09, 2014)

Are you ready to take your exercise and fitness routine to the next level? Then take a lesson from internationally-renowned action hero Dolph Lundgren, as he shares the personal fitness secrets gained from a...

The Pornographer's Daughter

by Kristin Battista-Frazee – Skyhorse (September 30, 2014)

More than forty years after Deep Throat arrived on the cultural scene and inspired a sexual revolution, questions about the ethics of pornography and its impact on society are still being asked today and remain...

Whitney Houston!

by Mark Bego – Skyhorse (March 02, 2012)

Whitney Houston (19632012) was a superstar. Few in the world of show business reach the career heights that she attained with what seemed such ease. Her megastardom peaked in 1992 with the release of the hit...

Marilyn Monroe

by Michelle Morgan – Skyhorse (August 30, 2012)

For the first time in paperback, this valuable biography by the president of Marilyn Monroe?s UK fan club contains the most comprehensive collection of primary source material on Marilyn Monroe, covering all...

Searching for Annabel Chong

by Gerrie Lim – Skyhorse (May 01, 2012)

Back in January 1995 in Los Angeles, California, a Singaporean pornstar named Annabel Chong took cultural rebellion to an extreme, on terms that had never been negotiated before. She was filmed having sex with...

Frank & Charli

by Frank Yandolino – Skyhorse (July 12, 2016)

Stories of Remarkable People and Enduring Love in the Time of Woodstock

In the 1960s and '70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang,...

The True History of the Elephant Man

by Peter Ford & Michael Howell – Skyhorse (April 01, 2010)

Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fair-ground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished...

Hunting with Barracudas

by Chris Snyder – Skyhorse (May 01, 2009)

Hollywood?s famous child star agent Iris Burton launched the careers of the world?s current movie stars and celebrities including Drew Barrymore, Tori Spelling, River and Joaquin Phoenix, Mary Kate and Ashley...

Hollywood Hellraisers

by Robert Sellers – Skyhorse (October 01, 2009)

I don?t know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I?m going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.?Marlon Brando

I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in...

Aretha Franklin

by Mark Bego – Skyhorse (March 25, 2012)

A frank examination of Aretha Franklin, Mark Bego?s definitive biography traces her career accomplishments from her beginnings as a twelve-year-old member of a church choir in the early 1950s, to recording her...

Chef Tell

by Ronald Joseph Kule, Walter Staib & Regis Philbin – Skyhorse (October 01, 2013)

Before the heyday of the Food Network, there was Chef Tell?nickname of Friedemann Paul Erhardt, America?s first TV showman chef. Big on personality and flavor, Chef Tell was once called by Philadelphia magazine...

The Hustons

by Lawrence Grobel – Skyhorse (July 01, 2014)

In this candid biography Lawrence Grobel chronicles the remarkable story of the Huston family, which boasts three Oscar winners, from Walter to John to Anjelica, with particular attention to the rich career...

Sleepwalker

by Kathleen Frazier & Mark Mahowald – Skyhorse (September 08, 2015)

I came to in the middle of it, like waking inside a horror movie, silent scream and all. Eyes wide open. I was standing at an open window, staring at the dizzying curve of Riverside Drive, five floors below....

Grace

by Thilo Wydra – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

Thirty years ago, Grace Kelly was tragically killed when her vehicle tumbled forty meters from the serpentine roads of Monaco. She has since become a myth, a style icon existing between the glamour of Hollywood...

Audrey Hepburn

by Suzanne Lander – Skyhorse (May 01, 2018)

"I never understood what makes me so special," mused Audrey Hepburn. The daughter of a Dutch baroness, Hepburn first won international acclaim with her role as a princess in the 1953 film Roman Holiday, and...

Shoot to Win

by Chris Cheng & Katie Pavlich – Skyhorse (May 01, 2018)

A surprising journey from tech support to professional marksman in front of the cameras.

Chris Cheng won the title of Top Shot,? a $100,000 cash prize, and a professional marksman contract with the show sponsor,...

Richard Burton

by Michael Munn – Skyhorse (October 27, 2015)

The whirlwind life of one of old Hollywood?s biggest stars.

From the depths of a small mining village in Wales to a star of Hollywood?s silver screen, Richard Burton broke every rule in his quest for the American...

The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness

by Catrina Davies – Skyhorse (February 09, 2016)

Read this book if you have ever loved and lost. . . . It will inspire you.? Monique Roffey, author of With the Kisses of His Mouth

Fuzzy-haired, neurotic, cello-playing Catrina is devastated when her lover, Jack,...