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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...

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PAT CONROY AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER -- IS BACK! I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I ...

In A Moving Elegy, One Of America's Most Powerful Writers Recreates His Father's Ordeal As, Suffering From A Brain Tumor, He Battles With The Ignominy And H...

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...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and the Financial TimesA completely fresh view of one of the most gifted―and fascinating...

Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate A...

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...

Based On Much Heretofore Unavailable Archival Material And Access To Close Relations, And Extraordinary For The Diligence Of Its Scholarship, The Unsparingn...

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 the million-copy bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most intimate and transcendent collection of stories yet Publ...

Elle Best Books of 2017Kirkus Best Books of 2017The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affi...

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...

From the opening paragraphs of Double Double: “We were sitting in a coffee shop talking, looking at the view of downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. This...

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...

Falsely Accused Of Murdering Three Eight-year-old Boys In Arkansas, Eighteen-year-old Echols, Deemed The Ringleader Of The West Memphis Three, Was Sentenced...

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 ...

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...

Journalist Walls Grew Up With Parents Whose Ideals And Stubborn Nonconformity Were Their Curse And Their Salvation. Rex And Rose Mary And Their Four Childre...

Ground-breaking biography of the creator of fiction's best loved detective Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognised the world over, for decades h...

Winner • National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) Winner • Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical) Winner • Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction) A New Yo...

Clutching her pink trunk filled with the relics of a lost childhood, twelve-year-old Jenny steps off a bus in Reno and into the wide-open future. Separated...

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was ...

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...

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

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...

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives. ...

#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...

Is There A Song That Changed Your Life? Npr's Music Authority Bob Boilen Posed That Question To Some Of Today's Best-loved Musical Legends And Rising Stars....

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant literary memoir about family and mental illness. Through stunning ...

Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Hi...

Albert Camus was an enigma to many to his own generation, even some who thought they knew him. He didn't quite fit into the French literary mold; men and w...

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...