Start with high-confidence american art books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Cash
Johnny Cash, Patrick Carr
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Crystal Zevon
Updike
Adam Begley
Burning Down the House
Jonathan Gould, Jason Culp
The Best Strangers in the World
Ari Shapiro, HarperOne
Truly
Lionel Richie, Blair Underwood
Talkin' Greenwich Village
David Browne
The Shores of Bohemia
John Williams, John Taylor Williams
Philip Roth
Blake Bailey
When We Were the Kennedys
Monica Wood
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan
Inside the Dream Palace
Sherill Tippins
The Book of Jose
FAT JOE, Shaheem Reid
This Land Was Made for You and Me
Elizabeth Partridge
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
Nothing Random
Gayle Feldman
The Book of Charlie
David Von Drehle
Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik
Trejo
Danny Trejo, Donal Logue