Category: Arts & Literature Composers & Musicians - General Why Sinatra Matters Pete Hamill / Little Brown & Company / October 1998 Stephen Sondheim : A Life Meryle Secrest / Knopf / June 1998 Hilary and Jackie Hilary Du Pre, et al / Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) / November 1998 Cole Porter : A Biography William McBrien / Knopf / October 1998 The Story of the Trapp Family Singers Maria Augusta Trapp / Image Books / February 1, 1957 The Lives of the Great Composers Harold C. Schonberg / W.W. Norton & Company / April 1997 Mahler : A Biography Jonathan Carr / Overlook Press / December 1997 Memoirs : Sir Georg Solti Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs / Knopf / November 1997 Nanci Griffith's Other Voices : A Personal History of Folk Music Nanci Griffith, Joe Jackson / Three Rivers Pr / November 1998 I Make My Own Rules L. L. Cool J, et al / St Martins Pr (Trade) / September 1997 The Book of Musical Anecdotes/Hundreds of Classic and Little-Known Stories About the World's Greatest Composers and Performers Norman Lebrecht, Norman Lebtecht / Free Press / December 1985 Tupac Amaru Shakur : 1971-1996 Alan Light(Editor), et al / Crown Pub / September 1997 Got Your Back : My Life in Tupac's Last Year Frank Alexander, Heide Sigmund Cuda / St Martins Pr (Trade) / June 1998 Sinatra! the Song Is You : A Singer's Art Will Friedwald / Da Capo Pr / April 1997 George Clinton and P-Funk : An Oral History (For the Record) David Mills, et al / Avon Books (Pap Trd) / June 1998 Rotten : No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs : The Authorized Autobiography Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols John Lydon, et al / Picador USA / April 1995 Selena : Como LA Flor Joe Nick Patoski / Berkley Pub Group / March 1997 The Big Book of Blues : A Biographical Encyclopedia Robert Santelli / Penguin USA (Paper) / February 1994 Catch a Fire : The Life of Bob Marley Timothy White / Owl Books / September 1998 Thelonious Monk : His Life and Music Thomas Fitterling, Robert Dobbin (Translator) / Berkeley Hills Books / March 1997 Bad Seed : The Biography of Nick Cave Ian Johnston / Little Brown & Co (Pap) / April 1997 Doo-Dah! : Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture Ken Emerson / Simon & Schuster / May 1997 Still Suitable for Miners : Billy Bragg : The Official Biography Andrew Collins / Virgin Pub / November 1998 Mister Satan's Apprentice : A Blues Memoir Adam Gussow / Pantheon Books / November 1998 Too Much, Too Soon : The Makeup & Breakup of the New York Dolls Nina Antonia / Omnibus / October 1998 The Glenn Gould Reader Glenn Gould, Tim Page (Editor) / Vintage Books / September 1990 Small Change : A Life of Tom Waits Patrick Humphries / St. Martin's Press / October 1990 I Put a Spell on You : The Autobiography of Nina Simone Nina Simone, Stephen Cleary / Da Capo Pr / September 1993 Under a Hoodoo Moon : The Life of Dr. John the Night Tripper John, et al / St. Martin's Press / May 1995 Vestal! Vestal Goodman, Ken Abraham (Contributor) / Waterbrook Pr / June 1998 Andrew Lloyd Webber : His Life and Works : A Critical Biography Michael Walsh / Harry N Abrams / November 1989 Harry Partch : A Biography Bob Gilmore / Yale Univ Pr / May 1998 Never Too Late : My Musical Life Story John Holt / Perseus Pr / September 1991 Aaron Copland the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man : Aaron Copland Howard Pollack / Henry Holt & Company, Inc. / March 1999 Richard Rodgers William G. Hyland / Yale Univ Pr / May 1998 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right : Bob Dylan, the Early Years Andy Gill / Thunder's Mouth Pr / October 1998 Jimmy Buffett : The Man from Margaritaville Revealed Steve Eng / St Martins Pr (Trade) / December 1996 Complete Preparation : A Guide to Auditioning for Opera Joan Dornemann, et al / Excalibur Pub / July 1992 Maria Callas : Sacred Monster Stelios Galatopoulos / Simon & Schuster / February 1999 Garth Brooks : Platinum Cowboy Edward Morris, Ed Morris / St. Martin's Press / March 1993 Into a Wild Sanctuary : A Life in Music & Natural Sound Bernard L. Krause, Bernie Krause / Heyday Books / September 1998 Glenn Gould : Music & Mind Geoffrey Payzant / Key Porter Books / March 1997 Bass Heroes : Styles, Stories & Secrets of 30 Great Bass Players/from the Pages of Guitar Player Magazine Tom Mulhern(Editor) / Miller Freeman Books / April 1993 Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves/Two Volumes in One Elyse MacH / Dover Pubns / May 1991 Bob Marley : Songs of Freedom Adrian Boot, et al / Penguin Studio / June 1995 Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story Ray Charles, David Ritz (Contributor) / Da Capo Pr / September 1992 King of Ragtime : Scott Joplin and His Era Edward A. Berlin / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / January 1996 Mariah Carey (Real-Life Reader Biography) Melanie Cole / Mitchell Lane Pub / September 1997 Doo-Dah : Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture Ken Emerson / Da Capo Pr / September 1998 The Memory of All That : The Life of George Gershwin Joan Peyser / Watson-Guptill Pubns / May 1998 Remembering Sinatra : A Life in Pictures Robert Sullivan, Na / Time Life / May 1998 The Secret Life of Peter Gabriel Chris Welch / Music Sales Corp / August 1998 Gershwin in His Time : A Biographical Scrapbook, 1919-1937 Gregory R. Suriano(Editor), Marvin Hamlisch / Gramercy Pub Co / August 1998 Antonio Stradivari, His Life and Work, 1644-1737 William Henry, Hill, et al / Dover Pubns / December 1963 San Antonio Rose : The Life and Music of Bob Wills (Music in American Life) Charles R. Townsend / Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) / November 1986 The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson David Nathan, Luther Vandross (Foreword) / Watson-Guptill Pubns / February 15, 1999 I Make My Own Rules Cool J., Karen Hunter (Contributor) / St Martins Mass Market Paper / September 1998 Chasin' the Trane : The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane J. C. Thomas / Da Capo Pr / May 1988 As Thousands Cheer : The Life of Irving Berlin Laurence Bergreen / Da Capo Pr / April 1996 The Music of Light : The Extraordinary Story of Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe Lindsley Cameron / Simon & Schuster / June 1998 Ol' Blue Eyes Leonard Mustazza / Greenwood Publishing Group / April 1998 Composers' Houses Gerard Gefen, et al / Vendome Pr / September 1998 Ira Gershwin : The Art of the Lyricist Philip Fura, Philip Furia / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / July 1997 Olivier Messiaen : Music and Color : Conversations With Claude Samuel Olivier Messiaen, et al / Amadeus Pr / July 1994 Dylan: The Life and Music of America's Folk-Rock Icon Stephen Matteo / Metro Books / November 1998 Lenya, the Legend : A Pictorial Autobiography David Farneth(Introduction) / Overlook Press / September 1998 Patient : The True Story of a Rare Illness Ben Watt / Grove Press / September 1998 A Family Affair : The Unauthorized Sean 'Puffy' Combs Story Andrew Cable(Introduction) / Ballantine Books / July 1998 The Cathedrals : The Story of America's Best-Loved Gospel Quartet Glen Payne, et al / Zondervan Publishing House / May 1998 The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Waslaw Nijinsky, et al / Univ California Press / August 1995 Forces in Motion : The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton (A Da Capo Paperback) Graham Lock, Nick White / Da Capo Pr / May 1989 Symphonia : A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum Hildegard, et al / Cornell Univ Pr / March 1998 Selenas Secrets Maria Celeste Arraras / Fireside / April 1997 Dmitri Shostakovich : An Essential Guide to His Life and Works (Classic Fm Lifelines) Stephen Jackson / Trafalgar Square / October 1997 Nadia Boulanger : A Life in Music Leonie Rosenstiel / W.W. Norton & Company / March 1998