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Spring 2018 Preview
February 26th, 2018
We’re highlighting here some of the books due out this spring and summer that are likely to garner critical and popular acclaim, because of their subject, their author, or both. The titles already getting buzz are drawn from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, and Amazon, among others. BIO members with upcoming releases are noted in bold type.
Please note: We do our best to learn about new books, and the ongoing monthly “In Stores” feature in The Biographer’s Craft will include even more fall and winter releases. But, if we’ve missed any members’ upcoming releases, please let us know so we can add them to this list.
March
A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith (Basic Books)
Neruda: The Poet’s Calling by Mark Eisner (Ecco)
Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 31 Hours by Joseph Rosenbloom (Beacon Press)
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World by Miles J. Unger (Simon & Schuster)
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I. Hitchcock (Simon & Schuster)
The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835–1871 by Gary Scharnhorst (University of Missouri Press)
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