Nonfiction News

Ingrid Bergman. Kim Novak. Grace Kelly. These legendary screen stars and others owe their immortality in no small part to a rather unlikely impresario: the obese, deeply phobic son of a Cockney greengrocer, ...

George H.W. Bush was wrong: Portland isn't Little Beirut. In its early aspirations, at least, it was Little Athens, or maybe Little Boston -- a frontier town obsessed, in its defining boom years, with its lack ...

Here's part five of the Boing Boing Holiday Gift Guide, a roundup of the bestselling items from this year's Boing Boing reviews.

The title, stamped in gold capital letters on the dust jacket, gives away the author's agenda: This is a muckraking book about art objects from ancient cultures that have found their way into major museums of ...

The Ingmar Bergman Archives : Edited by Paul Duncan and Bengt Wanselius. Contributing editors: Birgitta Steene, Peter Cowie, Bengt Forslund and Ulla Aberg.

Thousands of Americans have bought Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book, "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," after hearing that it shaped President-elect Barack Obama's thinking.

At age 91, Louis Auchincloss lists 47 books of fiction and 19 of nonfiction before the title page of his new novel.

An old Chicago joke has President Kennedy, Premier Khrushchev and Mayor Richard J. Daley as the only passengers on a sinking boat with one life jacket.

Portland native and pop-music journalist Mikal Gilmore , author of the award-winning memoir "Shot in the Heart," presents his second anthology of articles and essays, a sort of greatest hits, extended versions ...

Sylvester Stewart, a.k.a. Sly Stone, is such an important figure in pop music that it's curious he and his band, the Family Stone, haven't been the subjects of a major biography.

Interviewed by Donna Bowman November 18th, 2008 Even though he cut his teeth in newspaper journalism with The Washington Post, Malcolm Gladwell was surely born to write for The New Yorker , where his nonfiction ...

Big thick biographies, histories and a compendium of everything you might want to know about dance.

Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of history at Rutgers-Newark, has won the 2008 National Book Award for Non-fiction for her work "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family." An interview with the author.

"Writers love a good list," begins Roy Blount Jr.'s entry for lists in his book Alphabet Juice , which both contains many lists and is itself a list.

Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "The Shadow Country," a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s.

Before I read Betty Fussell's "Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef," I thought I knew enough about America's quintessential meal.

By TIM RUTTEN Now in his 60th year, Peter Ackroyd is one of those forces of literary nature that the world of British letters regularly seems to offer up - 14 novels, five works of nonfiction, 10 biographies ...

Terry Tempest Williams ' "Finding Beauty in a Broken World" is a travelogue with an itinerary as much spiritual as it is geographic: the coast of Maine; a mosaic workshop in Ravenna, Italy; a field study of ...

Look for these and lots of other new nonfiction for adult readers on the shelves at the Juneau Public Libraries.

CBS Eye Too Productions, a unit of CBS News that produces nonfiction/reality programming, has optioned The Secret Truth .