Art Biography

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    • The Life
    • By: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials and illuminated with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul....

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,013 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....

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    • A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Mary V. Dearborn
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 29 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • This is a revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short story writer....

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    • By: Nell Painter
    • Narrated by: Nell Painter
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the Rhode Island School of Design....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
    • Narrated by: Doria Bramante
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before....

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    • The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
    • By: Susannah Gora
    • Narrated by: Kelli Tager
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • The landscape that the Brat Pack memorialized is rich with cultural themes and significance, and has influenced an entire generation who still believe that life always turns out like an '80s movie. You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried takes us back to that era....

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    • The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • By: Caroline Fraser
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,244 ratings
    • The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series....

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    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jon Meacham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,816 ratings
    • In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times....

    Regular price: $24.75

    • C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
    • By: Humphrey Carpenter
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams - remarkable friends, writers, and scholars - met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature....

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    • The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
    • By: Anthony Summers
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • Marilyn Monroe, born to deprivation and a series of foster homes, became an acting legend of the 20th century. She married famous men, Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Joyce Maynard
    • Narrated by: Joyce Maynard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • In 2011, when she was in her late 50s, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. This is their story....

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    • The Life
    • By: Maria Riva
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 33 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • With intimate detail, author Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother, Marlene Dietrich, the charismatic star of stage and screen whose career spanned much of the 20th century....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • By: Gertrude Stein
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In Paris France, with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik - Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a bygone era, one on the brink of revolutionary change....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
    • By: Nancy Milford
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself....

    Regular price: $20.97

    • A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV
    • By: Pete Crooks, Joe Kenda - foreword
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • When the story of a private investigator firm that was staffed entirely of soccer moms came across Pete Crooks's desk when he was working at Diablo magazine in 2010, he was instantly hooked....

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