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An American original, Truman Capote was one of the best writers of his generation, a superb and almost matchless stylist. His short stories made him a liter...

jeannette Walls Grew Up With Parents Whose Ideals And Stubborn Nonconformity Were Both Their Curse And Their Salvation. Rex And Rose Mary Walls Had Four C...

Collects Essays About Tennis In Which The Author Challenges The Sports Memoir Genre, Profiles Two Of The World's Greatest Players, And Shares His Own Experi...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

Half A Life Is A Luminously Written Memoir That Will Stand Beside Such Autobiographical Classics As This Boy's Life, Stop Time, And The Liars' Club. A Scrup...

This skilful compilation - including interesting new materials omitted from the original publication - covers the first dozen years of the diary, beginning ...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regai...

The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, wri...

Elegant And Wise Meditations On Youth And Age, Love And Marriage, Solitude, Peace And Contentment. Introduction To The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition / Reeve ...

Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter -- a precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in Louisville, Kentucky.Before ther...

Over The Course Of An Adventured-filled Life, Now In Its Tenth Decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Has Been Many Things: A Poet, Painter, Pacifist, Publisher, Cou...

Index. The Nba Winner Talks Back / Martha Mcgregor -- Philip Roth / Jerre Mangione -- Will This Finally Be Philip Roth's Year? / Howard Junker -- Portnoy's ...

Named one of The Guardian's "Best Books of 2016"From the author of My Brilliant FriendThis book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers ...

Believed by many to be one of the finest poets of his generation, Patrick Lane is also a passionate gardener. He lives on Vancouver Island, a place of uncom...

By Antwone Quenton Fisher And Mim Eichler Rivas.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to...

A bridge between the early life of Nin and the first volume of her Diary. In pages more candid than in the preceding diaries, Nin tells how she exorcised th...

Jimmy Santiago Baca's harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered...

Book by Stein, EdithCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureAuthors

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...

A Chronicle Of Author Kathleen Winter's Journey Through The Northwest Passage, Including Vivid Descriptions Of The Land And Its People. 1. An Invitation -- ...

With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular...

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Lived A Richly Imaginative Life That He Expressed In His Poems. The Whole Harmonium Presents Stevens Within The Living Context O...

In this biography, Anka Muhlstein presents the fascinating life of Russian Historian Astolphe de Custine, one of the first members of French society to liv...

How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habi...

This Book, Written By The Editor Of The Library Of America Edition Of The Little House Books, Is A Thoroughly Researched Biography Of Not Only Laura Ingalls...

In 1985, at twenty-five, Jeanette published Oranges, the story of a girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, supposed to grow up to be a missionary. Instead, sh...

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

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicida...

Gerald Clarke. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [602]-608.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureAuthors

didion's Journalistic Skills Are Displayed As Never Before In This Story Of A Year In Her Life That Began With Her Daughter In A Medically Induced Coma And...

A Landmark Biography Of The Great American Writer Stephen Crane--Categories: HistoryUnited States

An "extraordinary biography" (New York Times Book Review) of a brilliant pair of adventurers. Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Ar...

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A Comedian's Prayer Book. The Title Is A Worry, Isn't It?...god Is A Tough Audience As Far As Audible Response Is Concerned, But At Least You Don't Have To ...

Memoir About Vladek Spiegelman, A Jewish Survivor Of Hitler's Europe, And About His Son, A Cartoonist Who Tries To Come To Terms With His Father, His Story,...

A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to...

The autobiography of Iris Origo, this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds, New York, Ireland and Italy; her marriage to Anton...

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...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book AwardFrom Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about hom...

The Autobiography Of A Young Black Man Raised In Harlem. A Realistic Description Of Life In The Ghetto. Claude Brown ; With A New Introduction By Nathan Mcc...

William Burroughs Arrived In Mexico City In 1949, Having Slipped Out Of New Orleans While Awaiting Trial On Drug And Weapons Charges That Would Almost Certa...

Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lif...

Oscar Wilde's stories are much-loved classics and make a fantastic story collection. They are timeless. moving and very readable. Complemented by atmospheri...

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) Was A Poet, Novelist, And Dramatist, But It Was His Biographies That Expressed His Full Genius, Recreating For His International Au...