Biography & Memoirs

The first and only biography of Jann Wenner, the iconic founder of Rolling Stone magazine, and a romp through the hothouses of rock and roll, politics, media, and Hollywood, from the Summer of Love to the Internet age.

Bob Marleys life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (19451981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marleys life story like never before. Roger Steffens traveled with the Wailers, interviewed Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer extensively, and took iconic Marley photographs.

In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and 90sa fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers.

An award-winning author attempts to become a nationally competitive tennis playerat the age of sixtyin this soulful meditation on aging, companionship, and the power of self-improvement (The Wall Street Journal).

An incandescent.redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend (Booklist, starred review)Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century.