Ray Charles Robinson, Author, Mary Jane Ross, Author Harmony $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-46293-0
From the eldest son, who lived through Charles’s success, adultery, and addictions, comes this candid yet compassionate memoir. At age six, Robinson, now 54, found his father twitching and bloody from shooting heroin. He was nearly 50 before...
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Tony Oppedisano with Mary Jane Ross. Scribner, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-982-15178-2
Oppedisano debuts with a remarkable look at the final years of one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The author was in his early 20s playing gigs at jazz clubs in New York when he met Frank Sinatra in 1972, “in the middle of his
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Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, with Mary Jane Ross. Grand Central, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-306-83648-0
Presley (Elvis and Me) chronicles her life from the end of her marriage to Elvis to the present day in this poignant memoir. Following the birth of their daughter, Lisa Marie, the Presleys’ already-shaky relationship faltered—though their bond...
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