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"An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book WorldAt long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gi...

Charles Ritchie, one of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps f...

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought...

The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazz...

The young W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood spent, between them, the years 1928 to 1933 in Berlin. It was a crucial stage in the development of the two ...

The whole world changed with just one phone call...I met Stacie for the first time in May. Her voice was meek and flat on the phone. She wasn't crying but ...

Moving Between Journal Entry, Memoir, And Exposition, Audre Lorde Fuses The Personal And Political As She Reflects On Her Experience Coping With Breast Canc...

Explores the connections between the writings and colorful lifestyle of Radclyffe Hall, a best-selling lesbian poet and novelist whose flamboyant antics rai...

A memoir that tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, the author survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal viol...

in 1977, The new York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller List Back Then The Exclusive Province Of Self-help Guides, Cartoon Collections, And Any Number Of Ca...

First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage ...

Jeff Pearlman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [351]-371).Categories: Literature & Fiction United StatesAnthologies

Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her deve...

One Of The Most Mesmerizing Memoirs Of The Literary Season: A Wrenching, Hilarious, And Stylistically Groundbreaking Story Of A College Senior Who, In The S...

Edgar Award-winner and internationally bestselling novelist tells of his improbable conversion from agnostic Jewish-intellectual to baptized Christian and ...

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a s...

Based On New And Revelatory Material From Brando's Own Private Archives, An Award-winning Film Biographer Presents A Deeply-textured, Ambitious, And Definit...

Staceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her...

A Humorous Collection Of Personal Essays Discusses The Author's Career In Journalism, Divorce, A Long-anticipated Inheritance With Unanticipated Results, An...

[v. 1. Without Special Title] -- V. 2. Purgatory. Jeffrey Archer. Vol. 2 Originally Published Under Title: Wayland, Purgatory.Categories: Politics & Soc...

"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete indepe...

When Kingsolver And Her Family Move From Suburban Arizona To Rural Appalachia, They Take On A New Challenge: To Spend A Year On A Locally Produced Diet, Pay...

Now in paperback—in the bestselling tradition of The Glass Castle and The Liar’s Club comes the captivating memoir of a young girl forced by her mother...

"A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review Renowned biographer Michael Ho...

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and wr...

The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a seri...

The distinguished psychiatrist offers a penetrating psychoanalytic interpretation of the New England poet's life, based on an intensive study of her worksCa...

Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life'...

this Is A Charming Portrait Of Childhood In The Russian Market Town Where The Great Painter And His Wife Grew Up. Bella's Warm, Humorous Stories Of Her Piou...

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." —New York Times Book Revie...

This Book Is A Tale Of Three Cities: The Fictional London That Lives In The Pages Of Writers From Shakespeare To P.d. James And Martin Amis; The Historical ...

From His Teenage Years In Provincial Russia To His Premature Death In 1904, Anton Chekhov Wrote Thousands Of Letters To A Wide Range Of Correspondents. This...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

Richard Cohen, a veteran writer, producer and distinguished journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for over 25 years. Recently diagnosed again with...

Benjamin Ivry's is the first study of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's sexuality in relation to his life, work and posterity. Focusing on Rimbaud's great po...

“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forc...

bloom (humanities, Yale U. And English, New York University) Offers Critiques Profiling 100 Of The Most Creative Literary Minds In History Based On His Sel...

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published,...

Draws On The Conversations And Experiences Of Students In The Author's Writing Class To Offer Practical Insights And Advice On The Craft Of Writing, Stressi...

#1 New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the National Book Award—one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our timeâ€...

From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the ...

A Memoir About The Year 2016 In Which Dreams And Reality Are Interwoven -- Provided By Publisher. Following A Run Of New Year's Concerts At San Francisco's ...

"J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. S...

‘I don’t know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transf...

Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout C...

Foreword by Roxane Gay "Debbie Millman brings her Design Matters podcast, 'about how the most creative people in the world create their lives,' to the pa...

'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memorie...

A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely D...