Three recently read non-fiction works:
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant (2014) by Roz Chast. A graphic memoir describing the final years of the long-time New Yorker cartoonist's elderly parents. Very moving, with quite a few hilarious lines.
Will in the World (2004) by Stephen Greenblatt. Good "speculative" biography of Shakespeare, by necessity more about his time (mid 1500s to early 1600s) than about him. Lots of conjecture, but intelligently done.
John McGraw (1988) by Charles C. Alexander. Very entertaining bio of the larger-than-life manager (and player) whose career touched on, and was often at the center of, everything that happened in Major League Baseball from the 1890s to the 1930s -- two-fisted brawling, rival leagues, game throwing, the transition from deadball to liveball, etc. I enjoyed this one even more than the previous Alexander bios I've read (on Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby).
By the way, thanks to dino27 for providing me with the McGraw book, as well as about 50 other books he recently sent me.