This month’s best new biographies and memoirs
Don’t miss the best new biographies and memoirs from the past month, hand-picked by our editors! We’ve rounded up this month’s biggest and buzziest biographies and memoirs — including an enthralling look at a forgotten business titan, an illuminating personal account from a baseball legend, and more! . ‘A beautifully written elegy to a vanished world’ ( Kirkus Reviews ) WHY IT’S READWORTHY: An award-winning writer brings his childhood in mid-century Gowanus — a Brooklyn neighborhood dominated by the Mafia and the Catholic Church — vividly to life Fans of Frank McCourt shouldn’t miss this “moving and unputdownable memoir” ( Booklist ...