Títulos em Ficção Biográfica

Der erste Roman über Barbies Erfinderin Ruth Handler: Eine außergewöhnliche Frau, die ein Spielzeug erschuf, das zur Legende wurde – eine außergewöhnliche Geschichte, großes Kino! Im Jahr 1956 macht sich Ruth Handler, Mitbegründerin des aufstrebenden Spielzeugunternehmens Mattel, daran, den Markt zu revolutionieren: mit einer Puppe, die wie eine erwachsene Frau aussieht. Im Gegensatz zu den üblichen Babypuppen, die die traditionelle Mutterrolle bestärken, soll diese Puppe kleine Mädchen dazu ermutigen, alles sein und tun zu können, was sie wollen. So wird Barbie geboren.

The year is 1908, the height of the Belle Époque, and a brilliant, young French woman named Gabriële, newly graduated from the most elite music school in Europe, meets a volcanic Spanish artist named Francis. Following a whirlwind romance, they marry and fall headlong into a Paris that is experimenting with new forms of living, thinking, and creating. Soon after marrying Francis, Gabriële meets Marcel, another young artist, five years her junior. Soon, Francis, Marcel, and Gabriële are all involved in a fervent affair that will change the course of art history and redefine the avant-garde.

Escriba errante é uma jornada com as palavras e os amores. Jornada essa cheia de encruzilhadas. Sem GPS. O livro narra a vida de uma escriba mais inquieta do que correta. Mais errante do que linha reta na sua obsessão de fazer sentido ao escrever. Uma escritora trafegando na fronteira do analógico com o digital. Ora seguindo a manada, ora se insurgindo contra ela. Mas não só.

Elvis Presley, "The King of Rock and Rol", made a huge impact on the entertainment world. In the last 30 years, manuscripts have come to light that have been collated by Aubrey Malone and edited to produce the 'Lost Diaries' series. Take a glimpse into the life of the man himself with these diaries, read by Lee Jackson.

Emma, seduta alla sua cattedra, ricorda con nostalgia il suo passato di alunna guardando la sua alunna Eva, una bimba che siede al banco di fronte a lei. Due generazioni messe a confronto con vissuti diversi. Le varie circostanze quotidiane, a scuola, riportano Emma al passato facendole rivivere le emozioni di un tempo lontano. L'amore e la passione per la scuola da alunna, oggi manifestati nel ruolo di maestra.

The press dubs them "the Gold Dust twins." Born within a week of one another in Manhattan in 1912, Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton both inherit unimaginable fortunes. By the time of their lavish coming-out balls, they are two of the richest women in the world. Barbara, heiress to the Woolworth millions, amasses seven husbands over her lifetime. Doris, meanwhile, has a sophistication and financial savvy that Barbara tries endlessly to emulate.

La cronologia dell’acqua è la storia di una vita che “non segue alcun ordine. Gli avvenimenti non rispondono al rapporto di causa ed effetto come vorremmo. È tutta una serie di frammenti e ripetizioni e trame,” perché “questo condividono il linguaggio e l’acqua”. Il nuoto – il corpo che si perde e si ritrova nell’acqua –, e la letteratura – il desiderio di scrivere senza compromessi –, sono le uniche due certezze di Lidia.

My autobiography and the fictional events after my death.

Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life.

La nouvelle héroïne d'Alexandra Lapierre. Stupéfiante de modernité ! Australie, 1901 : Miles Franklin, vingt ans, fille de fermiers du bush, parvient contre vents et marées à faire publier son premier roman, un texte remarquable d'insolence et de fougue, qui connaît un immense succès dans le monde anglo-saxon. Alors qu'elle cherche à garder l'anonymat sous un pseudonyme masculin, son identité est révélée et les préjugés misogynes de son époque la heurtent au plus profond.

This portrayal of Douglass distinguishes him as one of the founders of American democracy instrumental in ending the institution of slavery from which he escapes to become a fierce abolitionist, gifted orator, and newspaper publisher of The North Star.

Starke Männer? Schwache Frauen? Genaues Hinsehen birgt oft Überraschungen. Ein Lebensbogen: Die vierjährige Anna in der gefährlichen russischen Zone im grauen Nachkriegswien. Aemilia, eine liebevolle Großmutter, die die diffusen Kinderängste in strahlenden Lebensmut verwandelt. Diese ganz besondere Kraft träge Anna bis zu ihrem Tot durch ihr bewegtes Leben zwischen Wiener und New Yorker High Society: Liebe, Glück, Freundschaft, Ehrgeiz, Intrigen, unerwartete Wendungen. Und diese eine unbeantwortete Frage: Waren es Morde? Oder nur tragische Zufälle? Trügt hier das scheinbar offensichtliche?

El 8 de enero de 1982, la escultora colombiana Feliza Bursztyn murió en un restaurante de París. Tenía cuarenta y ocho años. En el momento de su muerte repentina la acompañaban su marido y cuatro amigos. Uno de ellos, el escritor Gabriel García Márquez, publicó días después un artículo que incluía tres palabras en apariencia simples, pero misteriosas en el fondo: «Murió de tristeza».

Melding prose, poetry, imagined interviews and ephemeral photography, Ondaatje weaves together a lyrical reinterpretation of Billy’s short, infamous existence, forming a portrait of a young man, and a young country, borne out of violence, threaded through with disaster, yet rich in wonder.

Intrigue and excitement follow the main character through a decade of life—from the United States Military Academy at West Point to the Vietnam War, and into the world of dangerous army intelligence operations in Turkey, Germany, and Shemya, Alaska.

Hace poco más de un siglo, una familia partió de Sorrento y se instaló en la ciudad argentina de Mar del Plata para abrir un hotel y luego una trattoria cerca de la playa. Podría tratarse de una familia cualquiera de las tantas que inmigraron por esos años, pero esta tuvo una participación especial en la cultura argentina: inventó los sorrentinos, una pasta que hoy se come en todo el país.

Pam Geiger’s longstanding role as an esteemed fashion and beauty artist began years before she ever coiffed Jacqueline Kennedy, Cheryl Tiegs or Christie Brinkley. Long before working with Bill King, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Meisel, Hiro, Neil Barr and Irving Penn, Pam was in front of the mirror in her childhood home in Lexington, Massachusetts, fretting over her own evolving adolescent looks and experimenting with ways to improve them.

In 1537, amidst England's religious turmoil, fifteen-year-old Anne Askew is forced to take her dead sister’s place in an arranged marriage. The witty, well-educated daughter of a Lincolnshire knight, Anne is determined to free herself from her abusive husband, harsh in-laws, and the cruel strictures of her married life. But this is the England of Henry VIII, where religion and politics are dangerously entangled.

Im Jahr 1899 entflieht Josef Naumann, 20 Jahre alt, seinem vorbestimmten Leben in Hamburg und nimmt Arbeit in einem Handelshaus in Wladiwostok an. Dort erlebt er Konflikte und Kriege zwischen Russland, China, Japan und den Kolonialmächten. Im 1. Weltkrieg gerät er in zaristische Verbannung, lebt sieben Jahre in der Taiga und gründet dort eine Familie. Von Rotarmisten mit dem Tode bedroht gelingt ihm mit seiner Familie die Flucht in einem Pferdetreck durch kriegerische Fronten.

AARON IS A WIND TURBINE APPRENTICE and now works 100m up in the air in remote wind farms in Scotland, Texas and Australia. He falls out of a wind turbine, crashes company cars, almost drowns, stops a turbine with a shotgun, escapes lightning storms and has to share his cramped work environment with his colleague's bowel movements. And that's just the day job.