Subject: Composers United States Biography

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Books under this subject

• Stephen Sondheim: A Life by Meryle Secrest (219 copies)
• Without Stopping: An Autobiography by Paul Bowles (217 copies)
• Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu (197 copies)
• George Gershwin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (192 copies)
• Cole Porter by William McBrien (175 copies)
• John Philip Sousa (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (136 copies)
• Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing by Stormie Omartian (133 copies)
• Aaron Copland (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (132 copies)
• Sondheim & Co. by Craig Zadan (125 copies)
• An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno (107 copies)
• Knowing when to stop : a memoir by Ned Rorem (102 copies)
• Music by Philip Glass by Philip Glass (101 copies)
• Copland : 1900 through 1942 by Aaron Copland (100 copies)
• Musical Stages by Richard Rodgers (99 copies)
• What Charlie Heard by Mordicai Gerstein (99 copies)
• Gershwin by Edward Jablonski (88 copies)
• Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man by Howard Pollack (84 copies)
• King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era by Edward A. Berlin (76 copies)
• Forces In Motion: The Music And Thoughts Of Anthony Braxton by Graham Lock (74 copies)
• Charles Ives: A Life with Music by Jan Swafford (74 copies)
• Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular… by Ken Emerson (73 copies)
• George Gershwin: His Life and Work by Howard Pollack (65 copies)
• Father of the Blues: An Autobiography by W. C. Handy (61 copies)
• Copland: Since 1943 by Aaron Copland (60 copies)
• The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin by Joan Peyser (57 copies)
• But He Doesn't Know the Territory: The Making of Meredith… by Meredith Willson (55 copies)
• The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem, 1973-1985 by Ned Rorem (55 copies)
• Noel and Cole: The Sophisticates by Stephen Citron (54 copies)
• Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac by David Amram (52 copies)
• Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson (52 copies)
• Cole Porter: A Biography by Charles Schwartz (49 copies)
• Troubadour for the Lord: The Story of John Michael Talbot by Dan O'Neill (48 copies)
• Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira… by Deena Rosenberg (47 copies)
• You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles by Millicent Dillon (46 copies)
• A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard… by Steven C. Smith (46 copies)
• Somewhere for Me - A Biography of Richard Rodgers by Meryle Secrest (45 copies)
• Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini (44 copies)
• Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir by Mary Ellin Barrett (44 copies)
• Encounters with Stravinsky: A Personal Record by Paul Horgan (44 copies)
• Bad Boy of Music by George Antheil (43 copies)
• Raggin': A Story about Scott Joplin (Creative Minds… by Barbara Mitchell (42 copies)
• Walt's Time by Robert B. Sherman (39 copies)
• The Way I Was by Marvin Hamlisch (34 copies)
• Changes: A Spiritual Journal (Changes a Spiritual Journal,… by John Michael Talbot (33 copies)
• Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael by Richard M. Sudhalter (32 copies)
• Stephen Foster, America's troubadour by John Tasker Howard (31 copies)
• John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon by Paul E. Bierley (30 copies)
• Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe by Gene Lees (29 copies)
• American Minimal Music: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve… by Wim Mertens (28 copies)
• Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an… by Adrienne Fried Block (27 copies)

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