Literary Figures
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
$25.00 Read moreBecoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpubli… [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Butler, Virginia McGee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844742
- Language: English
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The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
$14.95 Read moreA wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade–now in paperback
When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982,- Author: Goodman, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1517916615
- Language: English
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Autoportrait
$20.00 Read moreNominated for the Chicago Review of Books Award
A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday joy from one of America’s best contemporary novelists- Author: Ball, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221389
- Language: English
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Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet
$29.95 Read moreDemystifying the “Poet Laureate of Depression”
Pleasure-loving, sarcastic, stubborn, determined, erotic, deeply sad–Jane Kenyon’s complexity and contradictions found expression in luminous poems that
- Author: Greene, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0252045386
- Language: English
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Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat
$23.99 Read more‘An inspired and original tale … Jeoffry is the greatest cat in the English language’ Hilary Mantel‘Simply unforgettable … one of the most beautiful and haunting books of recent times’ Alexander M… [more below]
- Author: Soden, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0750999314
- Language: English
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The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
$18.95 Add to cartThroughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Begi… [more below]
- Author: Kunitz, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329976
- Language: English
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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
$17.00 Read more” Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —The New Yorker
In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticu- Author: Manguso, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1555977650
- Language: English
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James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
$29.00 Read more“It’s quite a life, Patterson’s, and this fizzing, funny, often deeply moving memoir is a perfect way to understand the dizzying world of a best-selling writer.” —Daily Mail
“Damn near addictive. I- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0316397539
- Language: English
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I Can Give You Anything But Love
$16.95 Add to cartA beloved memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature–whose graphic, funny, and caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishm… [more below]
- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644213893
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$35.00 Read moreThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
“Magisterial.”–Kirkus Reviews More than tw- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300221754
- Language: English
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Zora Neale Hurston
$22.00 Read moreThe life, work, and legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most published African American women.
This book explores the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most-published Africa- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Hopson, Cheryl R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1789147956
- Language: English
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Groundwork
$42.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy, an updated collection of Paul Auster’s nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude.
Paul Auster spent his fifty-y- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 125024580X
- Language: English
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A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
$35.00 Read moreThe extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift
He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scott- Author: Peri, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0670786195
- Language: English
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Byron’s Travels: Poems, Letters, and Journals
$35.00 Add to cartA new hardcover selection of Lord Byron’s letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life and his wide-ranging travels–and timed to the two-hundredth anniversary of his tr… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Byron, George Gordon, 1788-
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1101908424
- Language: English
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Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success
$28.00 Add to cartA deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans
Biographer Alexandra Popoff trac- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Popoff, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253214
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
$29.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka’s legacy–to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024–explores Kafka’s life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way.
In 2024, exactly o- Author: Watroba, Karolina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366717
- Language: English
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Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence
$39.95 Add to cartThis biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and… [more below]
- Author: Horner, Avril
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526173743
- Language: English
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
$29.99 Add to cartAn expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz.
The g- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1982185791
- Language: English
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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life
$45.00 Read moreA no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could “give the dead a voice, make them sing” (Hilton Als, The New Yorker).
Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld m- Author: Nott, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0374279209
- Language: English
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Mothers of the Mind: The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath
$36.99 Read moreThe stories of the remarkable mothers who shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath
Julia Stephen, Clara Miller, and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights, and their- Author: Trethewey, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1803991895
- Language: English
