AMDA Performing Arts Library - Fall 2017, Week 4

November 02, 2017 -

Discover Biographies 

Search for the subject “biography” in the online catalog, and you will find more than 600 books. You can read the life stories of actors, singers, dancers, writers, directors, producers, and artists of all kinds. Here is a sample of some of our recent acquisitions.

Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power / by Neal Gabler. Yale University Press, 2016.

Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth / by John F. Szwed. Viking, 2015.

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal / by Jay Parini. Doubleday, 2015.

Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep / by Michael Schulman. Harper, 2016.

I Am Spock / by Leonard Nimoy. Hatchett Books, 2015.

The Magic of Beverly Sills / by Nancy Guy. University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Sinatra: The Chairman / by James Kaplan. Doubleday, 2015.

Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin/ by David Kaufman. St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

Year of Yes / by Shonda Rhimes. Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway’s Greatest Producer / by Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson. The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

AMDA Performing Arts Library Online Catalog

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