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Edited by David Remnick - Audio book narrated by Philip Bosco, Amy Irving & Alton Fitzgerald White - Unabridged Nonfiction - 9 COMPACT DISCS - 10 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (March 2000)

"He scans the assembly, his eyes twinkling like icicles. Hard to believe, despite the pewter-colored hair, that he is fifty-one: he holds himself like the midshipman he once was, chin well tucked in, back as straight as a poker." --Kenneth Tynan on Johnny Carson

"If I were a bitch, I'd be in love with Biff Truesdale. Biff is perfect. He's friendly, good-looking, rich, famous, and in excellent physical condition. He almost never drools." --Susan Orlean on show dog Biff Truesdale

"Misha was one of those children who could not sit still. Erika Vitina, a friend of the family, says that when he ate at their house you could see his legs dancing around under the glass-topped dinner table." --Joan Acocella on Mikhail Baryshnikov

"Today her body, whose Attic splendor once brought Greece to Kansas and Kalamazoo, is approaching its half-century mark. Her spirit is green as a bay-tree, but her flesh is worn, perhaps by the weight of her laurels." --Janet Flanner on Isadora Duncan

"His eyes had changed....The shyness, any traces of real vulnerability that they had formerly held, had left them; now he looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not." --Truman Capote on Marlon Brando

"He is a slight, handsome man of thirty-nine, with dark shoulder-length hair, worn tightly sleeked back and bound with a rubber band, accentuating his appearance of quickness and lightness, of being sort of streamlined." --Janet Malcolm on David Salle

"He has two caregivers and is bathed and dressed in a collaborative effort that has shades of Fellini. He spends his days in a custom-made wheelchair while others read to him or give him physical or speech therapy. Every Friday, he goes to the movies." --Hilton Als on Richard Pryor

In its 75 successful years, The New Yorker has set the standard for feature-length magazine biography. In fact, the magazine owns a copyright to the title Profiles. No other periodical has brought to this kind of biographical reporting more distinguished writers or more wide-ranging subjects, and none has achieved more incisive and revealing results.

The compilation includes telling, subtle, and often funny portraits of figures that come from every field of human endeavor and accomplishment: Ernest Hemingway, Legs Diamond, Thomas Edison, Roseanne Barr, Queen Mary, Julia Child, Marlon Brando, Adolf Hitler, Benjamin Cardozo, Edith Warton and Hillary Clinton. The contributors' names also speak for themselves: Ian Frazier, Janet Flanner, Joseph Mitchell, Lillian Ross, Mark Singer, Dorothy parker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Truman Capote.

Profiles are the jewel in The New Yorker's nonfiction crown. They not only display the riches of a great magazine, but shed light on many of the great figures who have helped to shape the world we live in.

About the Editor: David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. He began his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Lenin's Tomb. He is also the author of Resurrection and The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, a collection of essays. He lives in New York City with his wife and children.

UNABRIDGED PROFILES INCLUDED IN THIS AUDIO COLLECTION

A PRYOR LOVE (Richard Pryor), by Hilton Als

THE DUKE IN HIS DOMAIN (Marlon Brando), by Truman Capote

ISADORA (Isadora Duncan), by Janet Flanner

LADY WITH A PENCIL (Katharine White), by Nancy Franklin

NOBODY BETTER, BETTER THAN NOBODY (Heloise), by Ian Frazier

THE COOLHUNT (Baysie Wightman and DeeDee Gordon), by Malcolm Gladwell

WUNDERKIND (Floyd Patterson), by A.J. Liebling

MR. HUNTER'S GRAVE (George H. Hunter), by Joseph Mitchell

SHOW DOG (Biff Truesdale), by Susan Orlean

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT NOW, GENTLEMEN? (Ernest Hemingway), by Lillian Ross

THE MAN WHO WALKS ON AIR (Philippe Petit), by Calvin Tomkins

COVERING THE COPS (Edna Buchanan), by Calvin Trillin