Alan Walker, Author Alfred A. Knopf $50 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-52542-6
The last quarter-century of Liszt's life was filled with dramatic turns, contrasts and emotional storms, like the Hungarian composer's romantic music. The buoyant man of the world retreated into a monastery near Rome (1863-1865), emerging as a Roman
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Alan Walker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (762p) ISBN 978-0-3741-5906-1
Nineteenth-century pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin (1810–1849) emerges as a reserved, inward man who creates passionate music in this expansive, authoritative biography. Musicologist and biographer Walker (Franz Liszt) paints Chopin, who was...
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Alan Walker, Author, Pat Shipman, With Knopf Publishing Group $26 (8p) ISBN 978-0-679-42624-0
In 1984, paleoanthropologist Walker, together with Richard Leakey and Kamoya Kimeu, discovered the 1.5-million-year-old skeleton of a teenage male Homo erectus in Kenya. Dubbed the Nariokotome Boy after a nearby sand river, this hominid fossil...
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Alan Walker, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (3p) ISBN 978-0-394-52540-2
This second volume of Walker's monumental, extremely enjoyable study examines the 12 years during which the remarkable piano virtuoso, a Roman Catholic, settled in Weimar, a Protestant city, with the even-more-devout but married Princess Carolyne....
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