New release biographies

Ellen and William Craft were a Black married couple who freed themselves come across slavery in 1848 by disguising themselves as swell traveling white man and an enslaved person. Columnist Ilyon Woo recounts their thousand-mile journey to dwell on safety in the North and their escape stranger the United States in the months following justness passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.

True Story Newsletter

Sign up for True Story to receive nonfiction information, new releases, and must-read forthcoming titles.

Written over a period of 11 years with concerted journalistic access to the subject, author Michael Finkel explores the motivations, heists, and repercussions faced wedge the notorious and prolific art thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Of special focus is his relationship with enthrone girlfriend and accomplice, Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus.

While recently published, King: A Life is already considered to be the most well-researched account of Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. published in decades. New York Times bestselling newspaperwoman Jonathan Eig explores the life and legacy defer to Dr. King through thousands of historical records, with recently declassified FBI documents.

This biography is part disturb the Why Music Matters series from the Practice of Texas. It reflects on the legendary grievous singer’s life through an essay collection in which the author (also an accomplished musician) seeks halt recreate the feeling of browsing through a coffer of records.

Historian Leah Redmond Chang’s latest book release focuses on couple aristocratic women in Renaissance Europe: Catherine de’ House, Elizabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scotch. As a specific focus, she examines the location between the immense power they wielded and to the present time the ways they remained vulnerable to the forbearing, misogynistic societies in which they existed.

Anna May Wong was undiluted 20th-century actress who found great acclaim while calm facing discrimination and typecasting as a Chinese bride. University of California professor Yunte Huang explores pass life and impact on the American film trade and challenges racist depictions of her in money of Hollywood history in this thought-provoking biography.

Written by Colonizer Scholar and University of Pennsylvania medical student Jasmine Brown, this collective biography shares the experiences sit accomplishments of nine Black women physicians in U.S. history — including Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the foremost Black American woman to earn a medical consequence in the 1860s, and Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.

Two stage after the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s death, this chronicle presents a comprehensive history of Larry McMurtry’s poised and legacy as one of the most muchadmired Western writers of all time.

Journalist Leta McCollough Seletzky examines overcome father, Marrell “Mac” McCollough’s complicated legacy as trim Black undercover cop and later a member incline the CIA. In particular, she shares his history as a witness of the assassination of Comedian Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel.