Literary Figures
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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 Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and… [more below]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
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The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
$33.00 Add to cartIn The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, and subject of the hit documentary The Center
- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1250105943
- Language: English
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All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
$17.95 Read moreArchetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352374
- Language: English
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Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship
$28.95 Read moreA fascinating deep dive into Kurt Vonnegut’s oeuvre and legacy, illuminating his unique perspective on environmental stewardship and our shared connections as humans, Earthlings, and stardust.
Vonnegu- Author: Jarvis, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644212250
- Language: English
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The Most Reluctant Convert
$25.00 Add to cartIn his teens, a young man wrote, “”I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.”” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “”I never sank so low as to … [more below]
- Series: C. S. Lewis Secondary Studies
- Author: Downing, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1666718939
- Language: English
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography
$44.95 Read moreOriginal, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain’s most popular, provocative and versatile writers.
Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi’s li- Author: Ranasinha, Ruvani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1526147394
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
$21.95 Add to cartBorn in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included
- Author: Curtis, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052082
- Language: English
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A Mystery, Crime & Noir Notebook
$17.95 Add to cartA MYSTERY, CRIME & NOIR NOTEBOOK
This book is a compilation of almost 50 articles written over a period of 40 years by noted collector/author/publisher Gary Lovisi. They include topics about some of hi
- Author: Lovisi, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886010541
- Language: English
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
$17.99 Add to cartPart autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.”Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres o… [more below]
- Author: Proulx, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0743288815
- Language: English
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th
$16.99 Add to cartThe 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman’s petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation’s history wer… [more below]
- Author: Cheever, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0743264622
- Language: English
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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
$30.00 Add to cartAn expression of an extraordinary poet’s life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and student
- Author: Ames, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 433
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0618492429
- Language: English
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James Joyce
$41.99 Add to cartRichard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce’s life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Lives
- Author: Ellmann, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 20 1983
- ISBN10: 0195033817
- Language: English
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Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts
$17.95 Add to cartNovelist Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) left a mark on twentieth-century literature, not only in her homeland of Norway, but across the West. Her painterly eye for the Scandinavian countryside, her uncompr
- Author: Nichols, Aidan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 162164507X
- Language: English
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
$75.00 Read moreA fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller–from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late- Author: Hay, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691243964
- Language: English
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Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie
$17.95 Read moreLyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima’s cla
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 087286880X
- Language: English
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Bukowski, a Life
$18.95 Read moreThe life of Charles Bukowski–laureate of lowlife Los Angeles–a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator.
Neeli Cherk- Author: Cherkovski, Neeli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 157423241X
- Language: English
