Memoirs & Biographies
HOLT
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi
and the Birth of the Atomic Age by
Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin (Oct. 11,
hardcover, $30, ISBN 978-1-62779-
005-5) is the first full-scale biography of
the Nobel Prize–winning
physicist and one of the
fathers of the atomic age.
HOUGHTON
MIFFLIN
HARCOURT
When Nobody Was
Watching: My Hard-
Fought Journey to
Soccer’s Summit by
Carli Lloyd and Wayne
Coffey (Sept. 27, hardcover, $26,
ISBN 978-0-544-81462-2). The U.S.
women’s national soccer team star takes
readers inside the women’s national team
and inside her head as an athlete who
willed herself to perform at the highest
levels of competition. 75,000-copy
announced first printing.
KNOPF
The Accidental Life: An Editor’s
Notes on Writing and Writers by Terry
McDonell (Aug. 2, hardcover, $26.95,
ISBN 978-1-101-94671-8). Editor,
journalist, and publishing entrepreneur
McDonell offers a memoir about writers,
writing, editing—and the fast-paced,
high-stakes life in the magazine publishing
business, with its pressures, joys, and
obsessions.
LITTLE, BROWN
George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay
Jones (Dec. 6, hardcover, $30, ISBN 978-
0-316-25744-2) is the definitive biography of one of the most influential
filmmakers of the past 50 years, creator
of the blockbuster Star Wars and Indiana
Jones series. 75,000-copy announced
first printing.
Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life,
Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan
Rivers by Leslie Bennetts (Nov. 15,
hardcover, $27, ISBN 978-0-316-26130-
2). Joan Rivers’s tumultuous and fasci-
nating life was a dramatic roller-coaster
of triumphant highs and devastating
lows: the suicide of her husband and
her feud with Johnny Carson among
them. 100,000-copy announced first
printing.
MILKWEED EDITIONS
Body of Water: A Sage, a
Seeker, and the World’s Most
Elusive Fish by Chris Dombrowski
(Oct. 11, hardcover, $24, ISBN
978-1-57131-352-2). A fly-fishing poet takes an assignment
to meet a legendary Bahamian
fishing guide in this tribute
that is part fishing hagiography,
part ecology, and part elegy.
6,000-copy announced first printing.
MORROW
Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of
Courage and Survival on Both Sides
of the Iron Curtain by Nina Willner
(Oct. 4, hardcover, $27.99, ISBN 978-0-
06-241031-3). A memoir by a former
American military intelligence officer
tells the true story of her family—five
women separated by the Iron Curtain
for more than 40 years, and
their reunion after the fall of
the Berlin Wall. 150,000-
copy announced first
printing.
MORROW/DEY STREET
Forward: A Memoir by
Abby Wambach (Dec. 6,
hardcover, $26.99, ISBN
978-0-06-246698-3). The
U.S. Women’s national soccer
team captain—winner of the 2015 World
Cup and the highest international goal
scorer of all time—shares her story, her
struggles, and her worldview: dream big
and fight for a better world. 100,000-
copy announced first printing.
NAVAL INSTITUTE
That Hamilton Woman: Emma and
Nelson by Barry Gough (Oct. 15, trade
paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-59114-613-
1). An exploration of the evolving
scandal, the high political stakes, and the
love affair itself between Adm. Horatio
Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton, which
influenced England’s fortunes; this is an
empathetic portrait of a woman maligned
in her times.
NORTON/LIVERIGHT
Hank: The Short Life and Long
Country Road of Hank Williams by
Mark Ribowsky (Nov. 22, hardcover,
$29.95, ISBN 978-1-63149-157-3). A
heartbreaking portrait of country music’s
founding father and “Hillbilly King
”who died in the backseat of a Cadillac
at the age of 29: Williams was country
music’s first real star—and its first tragic
martyr.
PENGUIN PRESS
The Man Who Knew: The Life and
Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian
Mallaby (Oct. 11, hardcover, $35,
ISBN 978-1-59420-484-5). The defini-
tive biography of the major economic
statesman of our time based on access to
Greenspan and personal and professional
contacts is also the story of the making
of modern finance, for good and for bad.
PENGUIN/BLUE RIDER
Good Vibrations: My
Life as a Beach Boy by Mike
Love and James S. Hirsch
(Sept. 13, hardcover, $28,
ISBN 978-0-399-17641-8)
tells the story of Love’s
legendary, raucous, and tri-
umphant five-decade career
as a member of the Beach
Boys, the most popular
American band in history—timed to
coincide with the 50th anniversary of
the release of the hit single “Good
Vibrations.”
PUBLICAFFAIRS
The 15: 17 to Paris: The True
Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and
Three American Heroes by Anthony
Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone,
and Jeffrey E. Stern (Aug. 23, hardcover,
$25.99, ISBN 978-1-61039-733-9)
