Literary Figures
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Shakespeare’s House: A Window Onto His Life and Legacy
$35.00 Read moreIn the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the ‘Birthplace’ – remains the chief shrine. It’s not as r
- Author: Schoch, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1350409359
- Language: English
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass
$19.00 Read moreSet in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen’s years in Africa–together with Shadows on the Grass.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724753
- Language: English
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Mythbusting Hemingway: Debunking Hemingway Myths and Celebrating the Extraordinary Stories of His Life
$34.75 Add to cartDid Ernest Hemingway kill 122 Nazis during World War II? Did he really fight champion Gene Tunney? Did he have very particular thoughts about hair? Mythbusting Hemingway answers these longstanding que
- Author: Bevilacqua, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064053
- Language: English
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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
$30.00 Read moreFor readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës.
Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or- Author: Looser, Devoney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 163557529X
- Language: English
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He, Leo: The Life and Poetry of Lew Welch
$29.95 Read moreLargely remembered for his mysterious disappearance in May 1971, Lew Welch was an important voice of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. He spoke of key issues that America was facing i… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712470
- Language: English
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This Little Art
$20.00 Read moreAn essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading,
- Author: Briggs, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1910695459
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartThe Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210415
- Language: English
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A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
$24.99 Read moreWhat role did Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Christian faith play in her life and writing?
The beloved Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold over 60 million copies since their publication in- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Fry, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0802876285
- Language: English
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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 Read moreA 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
