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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...

Virtually Unknown For The Better Part Of The Twentieth Century, Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) Is One Of The Most Interesting Rediscoveries Of Recent Africa...

Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIS...

A Chillingly Personal And Exquisitely Wrought Memoir Of A Daughter Reckoning With The Brutal Murder Of Her Mother At The Hands Of Her Former Stepfather, And...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

On August 9, 2001, 22 days after Archer—now known as Prisoner FF8282—was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from a maxim...

as Moving As His Bestselling Works Of Fiction, Nicholas Sparks's Unique Memoir, Written With His Brother, Chronicles The Life-affirming Journey Of Two Bro...

El libro comienza con su viaje a Estados Unidos en 1949. Apenas tiene diecinueve años y su única compañía es un sacerdote al que acaba de conocer en el ...

The definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched yet splend...

Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent. Growing up in a home with an atheistic mo...

One Of Nine Children Born Into A Penniless North Dublin Family, Nuala O'faolain Was Saved From A Harrowing Childhood By Her Love Of Books And Reading. Thoug...

Praise for Augusten Burroughs "A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining." - The New York Times Book Review on D...

The ... Author Of Hourglass Now Gives Us A New Memoir About Identity, Paternity, And Family Secrets--a Real-time Exploration Of The ... Discovery She Made L...

This Book Publishes, For The First Time In Full, The Two Most Revealing Of Mark Twain's Private Writings. Here He Turns His Mind To The Daily Life He Shared...

Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. H...

An Autobiography Of A Christian Concentrating On The Part Of His Life When He Turned To Atheism And Eventually Recovered His FaithCategories: Biographies &a...

William Shakespeare, The Most Celebrated Poet In The English Language, Left Behind Nearly A Million Words Of Text, But His Biography Has Long Been A Thicket...

A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic ne...

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”--George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incred...

A major new biography of the Nobel Prize–winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theaterFinalist for the Los Angeles ...

Son Of The Famous Thomas Mann, Homosexual, Drug-addicted, And Forced To Flee From His Fatherland, The Gifted Writer Klaus Mann's Comparatively Short Life Wa...

Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thi...

A Memoir Of Novelist Martin Amis And His Life, Son Of Novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Explores His Relationship With His Father. Reflects On The Disappearanc...

An Account Of Dr. Johnson's Dramatic Personal Life, Monumental Genius, And Boundless Literary Activities And Impact Follows Him From Poverty And Hack Work, ...

The great British mystery novelist P. D. James, otherwise known as the Queen of Crime, has redefined the genre over a career spanning close to forty years. ...

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of...

Nigel Nicolson. Pts. 1 And 3 By V. Sackville-west. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 219) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & L...

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Roman...

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

Pigeonholed In Popular Memory As A Jazz Age Epicurean, A Playboy, And An Emblem Of The Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald Was At Heart A Moralist Struck B...

The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life--based on extensive new research and newly discover...

From the biographer who knew Norman Mailer for decades comes the definitive, authorized portrait of the eminent novelist, journalist, and controversial pub...

The Toronto Star recently called Farley Mowat, the author of thirty-eight books that have sold more than fourteen million copies in twenty-four languages o...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ALA Stonewall Honor Book Finalist for Jam...

By Antwone Quenton Fisher And Mim Eichler Rivas.Categories: Science & MathEssays & Commentary

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...

One Of The World's Greatest Playwrights, Tennessee Williams Was The Author Of Over Thirty Full-length Plays Including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named...

The Second Volume In The Life Of Literary Giant Saul Bellow, Vividly Capturing A Personal Life That Was Always Tumultuous And Career That Never Ceased Being...

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...

In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightf...

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...

This biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American Literature who invented both the horror and detective genre, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherite...

A Collection Of Letters Between Martha Gellhorn And Her Family, Friends, Lovers, Politicians And Cultural Figures During The 1930's Usa, Spanish Civil War, ...

mark Twain Founded The American Voice. His Works Are A Living National Treasury: Taught, Quoted, And Reprinted More Than Those Of Any Writer Except Shakesp...

From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exup...

From one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful no...

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...