Literary Figures
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The Enchanted Places: A Childhood Memoir
$28.48 Add to cartChristopher Robin’s story in his own words.
- Author: Milne, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: July 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1509821899
- Language: English
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Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life
$30.00 Add to cartAn elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora
Growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marsha- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Washington, Mary Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0300253850
- Language: English
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
$45.00 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a who
- Author: Gordon, Lyndall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123230
- Language: English
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Jan Morris: A Life
$37.50 Read moreA spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris.
When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was
- Author: Wheeler, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063304112
- Language: English
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Fire: From “A Journal of Love” the Unexpurgated Diary of Ana?s Nin, 1934-1937
$25.99 Add to cartIn this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-“that brilliant giant toy” –
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0156003902
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Political Life
$45.00 Read moreA major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings
The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he- Author: Callanan, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691227977
- Language: English
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The Naked Civil Servant
$17.00 Add to cartA comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s
In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement–it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courag- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Crisp, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0141180536
- Language: English
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Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life
$32.00 Add to cartOne of the Best Memoirs and Biographies of 2025 at The Guardian A revealing look at the life and writing of the great modernist.
This biography explores the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one o- Author: Kimber, Gerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1836391625
- Language: English
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La Reina de Espadas / The Queen of Swords
$19.95 Add to cartPreseleccionado para National Book Award en la categoria de Literatura Traducida 2025
Una de las autoras m?s sugestivas de la literatura en espa?ol, ganadora del Premio Latin American Voices, recrea l- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 8426430775
- Language: Spanish
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Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
$32.50 Add to cartAn account of Woolf’s life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. “Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose…make this a most valuable and pleasurable book” (Publishers… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #03
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 14 1981
- ISBN10: 0156260387
- Language: English
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Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
$16.95 Add to cartAllen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Hanna Arendt, Norman Mailer, and Lillian Hellman -among the other things these writers and intellectuals all had in common is Norman Podhoretz. With them Pod… [more below]
- Author: Podhoretz, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554171
- Language: English
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Chosen Forever
$17.99 Add to cartIn the heartwarming sequel to Chosen by a Horse, Susan Richards tells of the continuing gifts brought to her life by her beloved horse, Lay Me Down.
Readers cried with Susan Richards when, at the end o… [more below]
- Author: Richards, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 015603302X
- Language: English
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Dr Johnson and MR Savage
$9.99 Add to cartA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0007204558
- Language: English
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August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art
$35.00 Add to cartPlaywright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays–including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson–that chronicle the lives of Black Amer… [more below]
- Series: Regional
- Author: Glasco, Laurence A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0822948540
- Language: English
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Come to Dinner: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion
$14.99 Read more“An icon, unmasked. A friendship, unforgettable.”
A rare, revelatory portrait of Joan Didion–told not thr
Didion, like you’ve never seen her–this memoir could have easily been titled EAT. PRAY. JOAN.- Author: Davidson, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798998722387
- Language: English
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Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
$35.00 Read moreBy his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback
- Author: Streitfeld, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063234882
- Language: English
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
$19.00 Add to cartAn expansive, illuminating, and “welcome addition to understand” (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood–from the author… [more below]
- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982185805
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced Eu… [more below]
- Author: Di Robilant, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0307743845
- Language: English
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Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938
$15.99 Add to cartMary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American C… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 1993
- ISBN10: 0156447878
- Language: English
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Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King
$23.99 Add to cartOne of the most prolific and popular authors in the world today, Stephen King has become part of pop culture history. His best-selling novels such as Carrie, It, Christine, and many others have captur
- Author: Rogak, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603509
- Language: English
