Category: Arts & Literature Theatre Stephen Sondheim: A Life Meryle Secrest / Knopf / June 1998 My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor Alec Guinness / Viking Pr / August 1997 Shakespeare: A Life Park Honan / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / December 1998 Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss Kenneth Silverman / Harperperennial Library / October 1997 Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury Martin Gottfried / Little Brown & Company / January 1999 Bombshells: Glamour Girls of a Lifetime Steve Sullivan / Griffin Trade Paperback / July 1998 With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee / William Morrow & Company / November 1998 I Think I'm Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families Carroll O'Connor / Pocket Books / March 1998 Beginning Kenneth Branagh / St. Martin's Press / May 1991 Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century Philip Hoare / Arcade Pub / April 1998 Memoirs of an Amnesiac Oscar, Levant / Samuel French Trade / January 1990 But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame!: The Amazing History of the World's Favorite Madcap Aunt Richard Tyler Jordan / Capra Pr / July 1998 Pictures in My Head Gabriel Byrne / Roberts Rinehart Pub / September 1995 A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 Fintan Otoole, Fintan O'Toole / Farrar Straus & Giroux / November 1998 Threads of Time (A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book) Peter Brook / Counterpoint Press / May 1998 Pictures in My Head Gabriel Byrne / Roberts Rinehart Pub / October 1997 Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir Claire Bloom / Little Brown & Co (Pap) / April 1998 But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame!: The Amazing History of the World's Favorite Madcap Aunt Richard Tyler Jordan / Capra Pr / July 1998 Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett James Knowlson / Touchstone Books / October 1997 Kenneth Tynan: Letters Kenneth Tynan, ka Tynan / Random House / May 1998 Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Anto Chekhov and Olga Knipper Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, et al / Ecco Press / October 1997 Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir Claire Bloom, Bill Phillips (Editor) / Little Brown & Company / November 1996 The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams Donald Spoto / Da Capo Pr / October 1997 When Do I Start?: A Memoir Karl Malden, Carla Malden (Contributor) / Simon & Schuster / November 1997 Rewrites: A Memoir Neil Simon / Touchstone Books / April 1998 Profiles Kenneth Tynan, Simon Callow (Introduction) / Random House (Paper) / May 1998 The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini (Kodansha Globe) Ruth Brandon, Philip Turner (Editor) / Kodansha International / November 1995 Shakespeare Anthony Burgess / Ivan R Dee, Inc. / October 1994 Nazimova: A Biography Gavin Lambert / Knopf / April 1997 Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya Lys Symonette (Editor), et al / Univ California Press / November 1997 Year of the King: An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook Antony Sher / Limelight Editions / October 1992 I Think I'm Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families Carroll O'Connor (Narrator) / Simon & Schuster (Audio) / March 1998 Tony Kushner in Conversation (Triangulations) Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (Editor) / Univ of Michigan Pr / December 1997 An Actor and His Time John Gielgud, et al / Applause Theatre Book Pub / October 1997 Musical Stages: An Autobiography Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers (Introduction) / Da Capo Pr / April 1995 Memoirs of a Sword Swallower Daniel P. Mannix / V/Search Noel Coward: A Biography Philip Hoare / Simon & Schuster / August 1996 The Real Life of Laurence Olivier Roger Lewis / Applause Theatre Book Pub / October 1997 Being an Actor Simon Callow / St. Martin's Press / September 1995 Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting, and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity John Strasberg / Applause Theatre Book Pub / October 1996 Shakespeare: The Evidence: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and His Work Ian Wilson, Cal Morgan (Editor) / Griffin Trade Paperback / January 1999 Meredith Monk (Paj Books - Art+ Performance Series) Deborah Jowitt (Editor) / Johns Hopkins Univ Pr / November 1997 James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven / Touchstone Books / October 1994 Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen Rob Edelman, Audrey Kupferberg (Contributor) / Birch Lane Pr / April 1996 Tarkovsky: Cinema As Poetry Maya Turovshaya, et al / Faber & Faber / April 1990 Sam Shepard Don Shewey / Da Capo Pr / April 1997 The Orton Diaries: Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others Joe Orton (Editor), John Lahr (Editor) / Da Capo Pr / September 1996 The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber Keith Richmond / Virgin Pub Ltd / November 1995 Ralph Richardson: An Actor's Life Garry O'Connor / Applause Theatre Book Pub / October 1997 The Presence of the Actor Joseph Chaikin / Theatre Communications Group / September 1991 Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama John Fuegi / Grove Press / August 1994 Stanislavsky Directs Nikolai Gurchakov, et al / Proscenium Pub / November 1985 The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleonora Duse Eva Le Gallienne, Gallienne Eva Le / Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) / December 1973 The Diary of Lillie Langtry: And Other Remembrances Donna Lee Harper (Illustrator), et al / Arrowheads Classics, Inc. / July 1995 And the Show Goes on: Broadway and Hollywood Adventures Sheldon Leonard, Andy Griffith / Limelight Editions / January 1995 Bertolt Brecht's Berlin: A Scrapbook of the Twenties Wolf Von Eckardt, et al / Univ of Nebraska Pr / November 1993 Rachel Rosenthal (Paj Books - Art+ Performance Series) Moria Roth (Editor), Moira Roth (Editor) / Johns Hopkins Univ Pr / November 1997 Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography Helen Sheehy / Knopf / October 1996 Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Actress and the Prince Claire Tomalin / Knopf / April 1995 The Great Stage Directors: 100 Distinguished Careers of the Theater Samuel L. Leiter, Simon Callow (Designer) / Facts on File, Inc. / June 1994 Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weil and Lotte Lenya Kurt Weill, et al / Univ California Press / May 1996 Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams Lyle Leverich / Crown Pub / November 1995 Lessons in Laughter: The Autobiography of a Deaf Actor Bernard Bragg, Eugene Bergman / Gallaudet Univ Pr / June 1989 Daughter of Shanghai Tsai Chin, Tsai Chin / St. Martin's Press / December 1994 Cousins: A Memoir Athol Fugard / Theatre Communications Group / October 1997 The Smart Set: George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken Thomas Quinn Curtiss / Applause Theatre Book Pub / December 1997 My Life With Noel Coward Graham Payn, Barry Day (Contributor) / Applause Theatre Book Pub / May 1997 To Be Young, Gifted and Black Lorraine Hansberry / New American Library / July 1987 Shakespeare: A Life in Drama Stanley Wells / W.W. Norton & Company / April 1997 Robert Shaw: More Than a Life Karen Carmean (Contributor), Georg Gaston / Madison Books / June 1994 Funny, You Don't Look Like One: Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibway Drew Hayden Taylor / Theytus Books / September 1997 The Stars Who Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves and Legacy Laurence R. Kominz, Michael Brase (Editor) / Kodansha International / October 1997 Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn (American Subjects) W. D. King, et al / Temple Univ Press / March 1997 Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art and His Times Frederic Ewen / Citadel Pr / February 1992 To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words Robert Nemiroff (Contributor), et al / Vintage Books / November 1995