Springing Forward: Biography & Memoir
Edited by Dick Donahue, Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen and Oona Short -- Publishers Weekly, 1/23/2006
ALGONQUIN BOOKS
A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father(May, $21.95) by Christopher Lemmon comes from the son of the late actor Jack Lemmon. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
AMISTAD
This Voice in My Heart (May, $23.95) by Gilbert Tuhabonye relates the athlete's story of surviving genocide in his native Burundi. 100,000 first printing. Author tour. The Pursuit of Happyness (May, $25.95) by Chris Gardner traces how a homeless man became a millionaire. Author tour.
BALLANTINE
The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family (Apr., $24.95) by Mike Leonard is the Today correspondent's account of a cross-country RV trip with his elderly parents. Ad/promo. Author tour.
BASIC BOOKS
Abraham: The First Historical Biography (May, $29.95) by David Rosenberg explores the life and world of the biblical figure. 60,000 first printing. 6-city author tour.
BLOOMSBURY
Send in the Idiots (Apr., $23.95) by Kamran Nazeer. The author, who is autistic, recounts the lives of four other people who suffer from this ailment. 75,000 first printing. 6-city author tour.
BURREL STREETWISE (dist. by IPG)
Tattoos on My Soul: From the Ghetto to the Top of the World (Apr., $23.95) by Burrel Lee Wilks III. The former Chicago gang chief chronicles his transformation into a life coach. Author tour.
CARROLL GRAF
Remembering Garrett: One Family's Battle with Depression (Apr., $23) by Gordon Smith. The U.S. senator addresses his son's suicide at age 22.
There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Apr., $25) by Adrienne Barbeau is a memoir by the actress who had a baby while in her 50s.
CASSELL ILLUSTRATED (dist. by Sterling)
Bob Marley (Apr., $24.95) by Jeremy Collingwood celebrates Jamaica's "musical hero" on the 60th anniversary of his birth.
CDS BOOKS
Public Radio: Behind the Voices(Apr., $25) by Lisa A. Phillips collects personal stories from more than 40 public radio figures.
CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS (dist. by IPG)
Perishable: A Memoir (Apr., $22.95) by Dirk Jamison focuses on one American family's opposition to the American dream. $25,000 ad/promo.
CHRONICLE
Marley Legend: An Illustrated Life of Bob Marley (May, $35) by James Henke marks the 25th anniversary of the entertainer's death; includes a CD of interviews.
Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats (May, $14.95) by Patti Davis. Illustrated vignettes portray living and learning from mischievous felines.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
Frog in the Well: Portraits by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841 (July, $24.50) by Donald Keene is an appreciation of the samurai painter.
COUNTERPOINT
The Scent of God: A Memoir (Apr., $24) by Beryl Singleton Bissell is the story of forbidden love between a nun and a priest. 7-city author tour.
COUNTRYMAN PRESS
Pedaling to Hawaii (May, $23.95) by Stevie Smith recounts the attempts of two regular guys to circumnavigate the globe using only human-powered means.
CROWN
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (May, $25) by Nando Parrado. The hero of Alive reveals what happened to him during the 1972 crash and its aftermath. 150,000 first printing.
DA CAPO
The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir (July, $24.95) by Toby Young is Young's follow-up to How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
DA CAPO LIFELONG BOOKS
Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Places (June, $24) by Bridget Harrison. The New York Postcolumnist shares her adventures.
DAVID CHARLES (dist. by F+W Publications)
Winston Churchill: The Photobiography (Mar., $24.99) by Michael Paterson. More than 200 photos document the life of one of history's most significant leaders.
DOUBLEDAY
Laura Bush (Apr., $26) by Ronald Kessler was written with the cooperation of the first lady's friends, family and staff.
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth(May, $26.95) by Leigh Montville. The author of Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero turns his attention to baseball's greatest legend.
PAUL DRY BOOKS (dist. by Consortium)
Matthew: A Son's Life, a Mother's Story (June, $24.95) by Anne Crosby is a mother's portrait of a son who had Down syndrome.
DUTTON
Terri: The Truth (Mar., $24.95) by Michael Schiavo with Michael Hirsh tells Terri Schiavo's husband's side of the story. Ad/promo.
Life Laughs: The Naked Truth About Modern Motherhood and Marriage (May, $23.95) by Jenny McCarthy finds humor in balancing motherhood with the ups and downs of marriage and divorce. Ad/promo.
ECCO
Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment (Mar., $25.95) by David Edmonds and John Eidinow centers on the rivalry between the philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume. 50,000 first printing.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon(May, $25.95) by Crystal Zevon. The singer-songwriter's ex-wife narrates his story through the words of fellow musicians, friends and lovers. 60,000 first printing.
EDINBOROUGH PRESS (dist. by IPG)
Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland (Apr., $39.95) by William J. Christen profiles the actress who was a Union spy during the Civil War.
FABER FABER
Federico Fellini: His Life and Work (Mar., $27.50) by Tullio Kezich, trans. by Minna Proctor, is the film critic's portrait of the towering Italian director.
FARRAR, STRAUS GIROUX
Sweet and Low: A Family Story(Apr., $25) by Rich Cohen focuses on Ben Eisenstadt, a Brooklyn short-order cook who invented the sugar packet and Sweet'n Low. 75,000 first printing. BOMC, QPB selection.
Strange Piece of Paradise(May, $27) by Terri Jentz. Fifteen years after a brutal attempt upon her life, the author comes face-to-face with the alleged killer. 100,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo.
The Afterlife: A Memoir (June, $20) by Donald Antrim considers a dysfunctional family with both tenderness and dark humor.
FREE PRESS
Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood (July, $23) by Adrienne Martini involves having a baby and losing your mind. Ad/promo.
GOTHAM BOOKS
The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart (May, $20) by Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin. The country music legend shares wisdom concerning the pursuit of inner harmony. Ad/promo.
HARCOURT
Let Me Finish (June, $25) by Roger Angell offers memories of his mother, a founding editor of the New Yorker, and his famous stepfather, E.B. White. Ad/promo.
HARMONY
Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age (June, $25.95) by Donna M. Lucey portrays the relationship between novelist Amelie Rives and Archie Chanler, heir to the Astor fortune.
HARPERCOLLINS
Dispatches from the Edge of the World (June, $25.95) by Anderson Cooper highlights the crises that the reporter has witnessed, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. 200,000 first printing.
HAY HOUSE
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Mar., $24.95) by Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin tells how a survivor of genocide developed a relationship with God. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour.
HENRY HOLT
Falling Through the Earth (Mar., $23) by Danielle Trussoni is a daughter's memoir of a haunted father.
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (Apr., $30) by Catherine Allgor positions this first lady as a master political architect of the post-Revolutionary era.
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (June, $25) by Charles J. Shields sketches the creator of To Kill a Mockingbird.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud (Mar., $24) by Janna Malamud Smith includes material from the private, unpublished letters and journals of the Pulitzer Prize winner. Ad/promo.
HUDSON STREET PRESS
Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs (July, $21.95) by Wendy Spero. The daughter of a protective sex therapist mother chronicles her far-from-dull maturation.
KALES PRESS (dist. by W.W. Norton)
My Father Il Duce (Apr., $26.95) by Romano Mussolini. Family life with the infamous Italian dictator, in which Father Knows Best.
KNOPF
A Writer's Life (Apr., $26) by Gay Talese reflects on the nature of writing as well as on the veteran writer's experiences. 150,000 first printing. 12-city author tour.
My Life in France(Apr., $24.95) by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme starts off with Julia's years in France and ends with her debut as TV's French Chef. 150,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 6-city coauthor tour.
LOYOLA PRESS
My Life with the Saints (Mar., $22.95) by James Martin. The Jesuit records his personal attachment to 24 holy men and women. 20,000 first printing.
MACMILLAN SCIENCE (dist. by Palgrave Macmillan)
Broken Genius(June, $27.95) by Joel Shurkin is the first biography of William Shockley, inventor of the transistor and the semiconductor.
MFA PUBLICATIONS (dist. by D.A.P.)
Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg (Apr., $35) by Alice Goldfarb Marquis revisits the art critic identified with Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionism.
MORROW
Wins, Losses and Lessons: An Autobiography (Aug., $25.95) by Lou Holtz offers inspiration from the football coach and motivational speaker. 200,000 first printing.
NELSON BOOKS
Summerall (Aug., $24.99) by Pat Summerall is the Hall of Fame sportscaster's own story.
NEWMARKET PRESS
Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking (Apr., $22.95) by Devyani Saltzman. Filmmaker Deepa Mehta rekindles her relationship with her daughter during the creation of mom's latest film. Author tour.
W.W. NORTON
Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman (May, $26.95) by Barbara Leaming traces JFK's intellectual and political formation. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.
NYU PRESS
Horace Greeley: Champion of Freedom(May, $34.95) by Robert Williams is a comprehensive biography of the veteran journalist and intellectual.
OTHER PRESS
Song for My Fathers (June, $24.95) by Tom Sancton trails the former Time Paris bureau chief to his hometown, New Orleans, to explore the music that shaped his life.
OXFORD UNIV. PRESS
Patterns of Peril: Dean Acheson and the Cold War (Aug., $35) by Robert L. Beisner details the life of the influential secretary of state.
PARAGON HOUSE
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Under the Influence (Mar., $25) by E. Ray Canterbery and Thomas Birch notes how the writer lived the American dream while writing of its shallowness.
PINEAPPLE PRESS
Hemingway's Cats: An Illustrated Biography (Mar., $21.95) by Carlene Fredericka Brennen. More than 200 photos testify to the renowned writer's fondness for felines.
POINTED LEAF PRESS (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
In the Pink: Dorothy Draper, America's Most Fabulous Decorator (Apr., $95) by Carleton Varney documents in words and ample visuals the major projects of Dorothy Draper & Co.
POTOMAC BOOKS
Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar (July, $27.50) by Dorothy Fall is the widow's biography that conveys her husband's views on the Vietnam War.
Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War (May, $24.95) by Philip Seib states that the journalist aided Roosevelt and Churchill in halting Nazi aggression.
PRESIDIO PRESS
Lonely Soldier: The Memoir of an American in the Israeli Army (July, $25.95) by Adam Harmon. A New Englander who served from 1990 to 2003 tells his unusual story.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington (Apr., $26.95) by Mark Felt with John O'Connor presents the real Deep Throat's version of Watergate and more.
PUTNAM
On the Couch (June, $25.95) by Lorraine Bracco. The Sopranos' Dr. Melfi discusses her life, career and celebrity. Ad/promo. Author tour.
RANDOM HOUSE
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story (Mar., $23.95) by Ken Dornstein recalls the author's brother, who perished in 1988 on Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Ad/promo. Author tour.
The Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons (June, $22.95) by Tim Russert. The host of Meet the Press celebrates the bonds between child and parent. Ad/promo. Author tour.
REGAN BOOKS
Fat Man Walking (Apr., $24.95) by Steve Vaught accompanies an overweight man on a walk across America. 200,000 first printing.
RIGHT BRAIN BOOKS
Asya's Laws: A Memoir of Loves Lost and Found (July, $22.95) by Asya Raines as told to Charles Fleetham begins in Latvia and ends 30 years later in the U.S. $20,000 ad/promo.
RODALE
Catch a Wave (June, $25.95) by Peter Ames Carlin chronicles the rise, fall and resurgence of Beach Boys megastar Brian Wilson.
ROUNDER BOOKS (dist. by NBN)
Ted Williams at War (Mar., $24.95) by Bill Nowlin is an account of the baseball great's service with the Marine corps in WWII and Korea.
RUNNING PRESS
He Talk Like a White Boy: Reflections on Faith, Family, Politics and Authenticity (May, $22.95) by Joseph C. Phillips collects essays from the actor and social commentator. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
ST. MARTINS
Possible Side Effects: True Stories (May, $23.95) by Augusten Burroughs is a new collection from the author of Running with Scissors. Ad/promo.
ST. MARTINS/THOMAS DUNNE
Into My Own (June, $24.95) by Roger Kahn pays tribute to eight special people who shaped the author's life. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
The Bronfmans (June, $25.95) by Nicholas Faith charts the ups and downs of the family that ruled Seagram's. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
The Importance of Being Barbra (June, $22.95) by Tom Santopietro is an homage to the career of a Streisand named Barbra. 50,000 first printing. Publicity.
SCHOCKEN BOOKS
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (May, $19.95) by Rebecca Goldstein remembers the philosopher excommunicated in 1656 at age 23 by Amsterdam's Jewish community. 4-city author tour.
SCRIBNER
The One That Got Away (May, $25) by Howell Raines. This follow-up to Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis includes fishing vignettes and career stories.
SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Camelia (May, $26.95) by Camelia Entekhabi-Fard relates the young woman's journey to freedom in contemporary Iran.
SIMON SCHUSTER
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Apr., $26) by David Maraniss. The author of When Pride Still Mattered turns his lens on the baseball great and humanitarian, Roberto Clemente. 250,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 13-city author tour.
SIMON SPOTLIGHTENTERTAINMENT
A Soldier's Promise: The Heroic True Story of an American Soldier and an Iraqi Boy (May, $25) by Sgt. Daniel Hendrex concerns a 14-year-old who became an unlikely member of the U.S. Army. 100,000 first printing.
The I Chong: The Tell-All Prison Diaries of a Comedian Behind Bars (Aug., $22.95) by Tommy Chong is part memoir, part scathing political indictment. 100,000 first printing.
SOHO PRESS
Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom (May, $25) by Jennifer Zeng is the Falun Gong practitioner's narrative of being "re-educated" inside a Chinese labor camp. 20,000 first printing. 3-city author tour.
Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir (June, $22) by Susan Richards. A lonely woman nurses an abused racehorse. 25,000 first printing. Author tour.
STEERFORTH PRESS
Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond (Apr., $29.95) by Rock Brynner discusses the lives of four men of four consecutive generations, all named Yul Brynner. Author tour.
STERLING
Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life (Apr., $17.95) by Daniel Gottlieb gathers letters from a quadriplegic grandfather to his autistic grandson. 6-city author tour.
TARCHER
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life (Mar., $22.95) by Erica Jong is a candid memoir.
The Woman I Am (May, $24.95) by Helen Reddy. The autobiography of the Australian singer/songwriter whose "I Am Woman" became a feminist anthem in the '70s.
TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
The Sundance Kid: A Biography of Robert Redford (May, $24.95) by William Schoell and Lawrence J. Quirk is based on interviews with friends and colleagues.
THAMES HUDSON
Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavates His Past (May, $29.95) by Michael D. Coe is a memoir from a specialist on Mesoamerican culture. Author tour.
THRESHOLD EDITIONS
Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life(May, $26) by Mary Cheney. The vice president's lesbian daughter discourses on becoming an issue during the 2004 campaign.
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Twilight People: From Mississippi to South Africa and Back (May, $24.95) by David Houze. Coming of age in Mississippi, the author learned about long-lost sisters in Durban.
UNIV. OF IOWA PRESS
Letters to Kate: Life After Life (Mar., $22.95) by Carl H. Klaus collates letters the author wrote to his late wife the year after her sudden death.
UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The Fortune Teller's Kiss (Mar., $26.95) by Brenda Serotte is a memoir of a young girl's bout with polio while growing up a Sephardic Jew in the 1950s.
UNIV. OF NEVADA PRESS
Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure (Mar.; $55, paper $24.95) by Joanna Frueh outlines the performance artist's approach to discovery and healing through examining pleasure.
UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and Pastimes (Mar., $25) by Ralph McInerny is a memoir from the scholar and mystery writer.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness (June, $40) by Thomas G. Smith profiles a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania during the post-WWII era.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS
What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust (Apr., $27.95) by Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar with Doron Ben-Atar results from a joint project undertaken by a Holocaust survivor and her historian son.
UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia (May, $27.95) by Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie, with Cheeni Rao, is a behind-the-scenes exploration of Kevorkian's crusade.
UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PRESS/ WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS
Fighting Son: A Biography of Philip F. La Follette (July, $34.95) by John Kasparek celebrates progressive politics in the 1920s, '30s and '40s.
UNIV. PRESS OF KENTUCKY
Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life (May, $35) by Stephen Michael Shearer details the actress's valiant career.
VIKING
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (Apr., $25.95) by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner. The real-life man played by Don Cheadle in the movie Hotel Rwanda illuminates his convictions and inner thoughts. 12-city author tour.
VILLARD
Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Mar., $21.95) by Janice Erlbaum recalls the author's distressed existence as an adolescent runaway in Manhattan.
Unaccompanied Women: Late-life Adventures in Love, Sex and Real Estate (May, $23.95) by Jane Juska. Still searching for her perfect lover, the septuagenarian picks up the story she began in A Round-Heeled Woman. Author tour.
W PUBLISHING
Same Kind of Different as Me (June, $21.99) by Ron Hall is a biography of a Louisiana slave who hopped a train and escaped.
WARNER BOOKS
A Life That Matters: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo—A Lesson for Us All (Mar., $23.95) by Mary and Robert Schindler with Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo and Bobby Schindler. The story as experienced by the parents and siblings of Terri Schiavo.
Elizabeth (Aug., $26.95) by J. Randy Taraborrelli takes a new look at Ms. Taylor. Ad/promo.
WATSON GUPTIL/BACK STAGE BOOKS
Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theater (June, $29.95) by Jared Brown is written with the consent of Hart's widow, Kitty Carlisle Hart.
WATSON GUPTIL/BILLBOARD BOOKS
Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan (June, $24.95) by James Maguire provides an inside look at the TV icon.
WILEY
Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather (June, $25.95) by Alan Weisman is the first biography of the newscaster.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
The Revenge of Thomas Eakins (Mar., $35) by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick asserts that the artist's appreciation of the human form was both the source of his greatness and his undoing.
