Literary Figures
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Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana? Nin, 1939-1947
$22.95 Add to cartMirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Ana? Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be “the O
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0804011656
- Language: English
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
$19.99 Add to cartThe Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the “contest era” of the 1950s and 1960s.
Stepping b- Author: Ryan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0743211235
- Language: English
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Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant
$24.99 Add to cartIn this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka’s heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. It was Dora Diamant, an independent… [more below]
- Author: Diamant, Kathi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: January 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0465015514
- Language: English
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I Could Tell You Stories
$21.99 Add to cartIn this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, “weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the… [more below]
- Author: Hampl, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: April 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0393320316
- Language: English
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Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartBetween 1948 and 1961, Earnest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together from New York to Paris to Spain, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. And ever… [more below]
- Author: Hotchner, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814277
- Language: English
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Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing, and Wisdom
$45.00 Read moreRom coms, meet cutes, mystery men, courageous women, and the happy endings of today draw a direct line to the words between the covers of Emilie Loring’s romance novels.
With a career spanning 40 year- Author: Bender, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1947951629
- Language: English
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Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of the Joy of Sex
$34.00 Read moreWe have so much more to learn about (the author of) The Joy of Sex!, this biography covers it all: the life of a young poet, pacifism, anarchist activism, academic life, the 60s counterculture, starti
- Author: Laursen, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1849354960
- Language: English
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartRenowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for i… [more below]
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1101910518
- Language: English
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Father and Son: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father’s experience in World War II, by a winner… [more below]
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593863151
- Language: English
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Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan – The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier
$14.99 Add to cart“A self-portrait devastating in its honesty…written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions.”–Donald Keene
Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an- Author: Seidensticker, Edward G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 4805316861
- Language: English
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Tony Hillerman: A Life
$29.95 Add to cart2022 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist
The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and u- Author: Morris, James McGrath
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0806175982
- Language: English
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G. K. Chesterton: The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton
$18.95 Add to cartHere is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170716
- Language: English
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The Worlds of Tomie dePaola: The Art and Stories of the Legendary Artist and Author
$29.99 Add to cartBarbara Elleman’s insightful biography on Tomie dePaola captures the essence of the beloved author-illustrator through engaging stories, childhood photos, countless illustrations, and thoughtful analy… [more below]
- Author: Elleman, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1534412263
- Language: English
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Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer
$28.95 Add to cartThis rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her… [more below]
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141161
- Language: English
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
$18.99 Add to cartThis unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need t… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0156586509
- Language: English
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Raising Demons
$24.00 Add to cartIn the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children
In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savage- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127292
- Language: English
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The Invention of Solitude
$17.00 Add to cartFrom Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel – his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood
This debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112228
- Language: English
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Rain of Gold
$25.95 Add to cartThis is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villasenor’s kin, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico,… [more below]
- Author: Villasenor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 551
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 1558850309
- Language: English
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Lives Other Than My Own
$19.00 Add to cartSELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
“You begin this memoir thinking it will be about one thing, and it turns into something else altogether–a book at onc- Author: Carrere, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013771
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
$22.99 Add to cartRecent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is “the most influential author of the century,” and The Lord of the Rings is “the book of the century.” In support of these claims, the pro… [more below]
- Author: Shippey, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0618257594
- Language: English
