Literary Figures
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Men We Reaped
$27.99 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 160819521X
- Language: English
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Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
$18.99 Add to cartA “compassionate, unflinching memoir” (David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas) by a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her i… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 145167659X
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254761
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
$14.95 Read more254 pages, 4 3/4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series
- Series: South Dakota Biography
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097779556X
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: Living in Fire
$22.95 Add to cart‘A scrupulous biography’ — Publishers Weekly
‘Fresh, incisive, and uplifting’ — Kirkus ‘If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read’ — Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Mon- Series: Revolutionary Lives
- Author: Mullen, Bill V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745338534
- Language: English
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Return to Paris: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartParis, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenag… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743439686
- Language: English
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Three Weeks with My Brother
$35.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.
As moving as his bestselling works of fi- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0446500100
- Language: English
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Tolstoy: A Biography
$35.99 Add to cartIn this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer’s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his litera
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393321223
- Language: English
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The Young Hemingway
$24.99 Add to cartMichael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America’s greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway’s persona: his father’s self-destructive battl
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0393317765
- Language: English
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
$23.99 Add to cartWorlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut
In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenect- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536538
- Language: English
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Pentimento
$21.99 Add to cartThe second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author.
In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unf- Series: Back Bay Books
- Author: Hellman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0316352888
- Language: English
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
$22.99 Add to cartFew American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into s… [more below]
- Author: Wenner, Jann S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316005282
- Language: English
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Wait for Me!
$26.99 Add to cartThe autobiography of one of Britain’s most beloved figures, last of the Mitford sisters, renowned writer and social figure.
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously wi- Author: Mitford, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610645
- Language: English
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
$18.99 Read moreNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT
An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip w- Author: Lipsky, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 030759243X
- Language: English
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Anybody Can Do Anything
$22.95 Read more“The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty.”
After surviving both the fai
- Author: MacDonald, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0295999799
- Language: English
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Undertones of War
$17.00 Add to cart“I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I r… [more below]
- Author: Blunden, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226061760
- Language: English
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The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 3 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944)
$27.99 Add to cartNin’s years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. “Transcending mere self-revelation… the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Prou… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #03
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 24 1971
- ISBN10: 0156260271
- Language: English
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1966-1974
$29.99 Add to cartThe final volume ends as the author wished-not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous, reflective moment on a trip to Bali. “One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Rob… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #07
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 1981
- ISBN10: 0156260352
- Language: English
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James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
$31.00 Add to cartHow did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? This “fizzing, funny, often deeply moving” (Daily Mail) #1 New York Times bestselling memoir is “dam
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0316445215
- Language: English
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
$22.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries–a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0805212795
- Language: English
