Biography/Autobiography

Clane Hayward, The Hypocrisy of Disco (Chronicle Books)

Paul Myers, It Ain’t Easy—Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues (Greystone)

Janice Ross, Anna Halprin—Experience as Dance (University of California Press)

Marsha Hunt, Undefeated (Greystone)

Bernie Rothman, Hollywood and Me (Greystone)

Gloria Lenhart, Planet Widow (Seal)

Linda Carroll, Her Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love (Doubleday)

Warren MacDonald, A Test of Will (Douglas & McIntyre)

William Pryor, Survival of the Coolest (Clear Press) (UK)

Orin Starn, Ishi’s Brain (W.W. Norton)

Marvin Korman, In My Father’s Bakery: A Bronx Memoir (Red Rock Press)

Kate Phillips, Helen Hunt Jackson, A Literary Life (University of California Press)

Louise Wagenknecht, White Poplar, Black Locust (University of Nebraska Press)

Michael David Kwan, Things That Must Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China (Soho)

Terry Ryan, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio – How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less (Simon & Schuster)

Rhiannon Paine, Too Late for the Festival (Academy Chicago)

Patricia Holt, The Good Detective: True Cases from the Confidential Files of Hal Lipset, America’s Real-Life Sam Spade (Pocket Books)

James Richardson, Willie Brown: A Biography (University of California)

Arthur J. Magida, Prophet of Rage: A Life of Louis Farrakhan (Basic Books)

Shana Alexander, Happy Days (Doubleday)

Craig Jacob, with Phil Berger, Twisted Genius (Four Walls Eight Windows)

Dianne Tittle de Laet, Giants & Heroes (Steerforth Press)

Ben Bagdikian, Double Vision (Beacon Press)

Adriana Williams, Covarrubias (University Of Texas Press)

Jacques Leslie, The Mark (Four Walls Eight Windows)