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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...

An Intimate, Authorized Yet Frank Biography Of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), One Of The Most Accomplished, Visible And Controversial American Novelists And Cultur...

this Unforgettable Memoir, By One Of Our Most Gifted Writers, Introduces Us To The Young Toby Wolff, By Turns Tough And Vulnerable, Crafty And Bumbling, A...

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...

A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son’s quest to understand the mystery of his father’s death—a universal memoir about the secrets fam...

In This Tribute To Teachers Everywhere. Mccourt Records The Trials, Triumphs And Surprises He Faces In Public High Schools Around New York City. His Methods...

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...

The Beloved And Bestselling Author Takes An Intimate Look Back At A Life Of Reading And Writing. The Memory That We Live With Is The Moth-eaten Version Of O...

Jane Austen ; Afterword By Claudia L. Johnson ; Artwork By Leon Steinmetz. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences So...

The 5th And Last Volume Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Diaries And Letters Record The Lindbergh's Lives During The Years Of World War Ii. Continuation Of The Au...

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...

David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from...

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

Here, Celebrated Drama Critic John Lahr Gives Intimate Access To The Mind Of One Of The Most Brilliant Dramatists Of His Century, Whose Plays Reshaped The A...

Remember the controversy attending the publication of The Western Canon? Well, hold on to your mortarboards -- critic, scholar, and Falstaffian gadfly Haro...

frank Mccourt's Glorious Childhood Memoir, angela's Ashes, Has Been Loved And Celebrated By Readers Everywhere For Its Spirit, Its Wit And Its Profound Hum...

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in...

A Collection Of Fifty Years Of Personal Essays By William F. Buckley, Jr. Illuminates His Career In The Army, His Love Of Sailing And Wine, His Interests In...

The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name. In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion PictureRunning with Scissors is the true story of a b...

Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a ...

In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal c...

Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (18...

A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of ...

Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve ...