Literary Figures
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Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award.
“The masterpiece of the ‘I knew Susan’ minigenre” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times
A poignant, intimate memoir of one of America’s … [more below]- Author: Nunez, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1594633347
- Language: English
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The Liars’ Club: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart#4 on The New York Times‘ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a ge- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107798
- Language: English
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James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters
$24.99 Read moreIn Empire of Monsters, the award-winning biographer Bill Schelly digs beneath the hype and myth-making to tell the true story of James Warren, one of the 20th century’s most influential and independen… [more below]
- Author: Schelly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1683964179
- Language: English
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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
$9.95 Add to cartBest known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales’ mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twiligh… [more below]
- Series: Celtic, Irish
- Author: Yeats, W. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 117
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486436578
- Language: English
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The Dog Says How
$16.95 Add to cartCaptivating stories of growing up, traveling the world, and relying on the strangeness of others bring Kling fans to their feet and a fresh audience to its knees–bowled over by laughter.
- Author: Kling, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681341182
- Language: English
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Paula: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cart“Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”–Los Angeles Times
In this literary classic, New Yo
- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 006302179X
- Language: English
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Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Add to cart“Knowledge is what’s important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.” — TONI MORRISON
In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews — including her first and la- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Melville House
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1612198732
- Language: English
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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling me
- Series: John MacRae Books
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423624
- Language: English
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Roughing It
$6.95 Add to cartThe celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as “a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer.”… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0451531108
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Edgar Allan Poe: Wit and Wisdom from the Master of the Macabre
$8.95 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe, the original master of the macabre and dark Romantic writer of Gothic novels, detective stories, poetry, short stories and satires is synonymous with themes of premature burial, death
- Series: Little Book Of… #9
- Author: Hippo!, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1800691963
- Language: English
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Who Killed My Father
$14.95 Add to cartWho Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French politicians– at the minimum–of negligent homicide. The a… [more below]
- Author: Louis, Edouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0811235041
- Language: English
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Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism
$20.00 Add to cartKurt Vonnegut and humanism go hand in hand. In BEHAVING DECENTLY: KURT VONNEGUT’S HUMANISM, Wayne Laufert examines how Vonnegut revealed his moral philosophy through the themes and characters in his w
- Author: Laufert, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0931779863
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country
$36.33 Add to cartIn the 1930s, iconic American author Ernest Hemingway spent five summers at a ranch on the edge of Yellowstone National Park. Here he did some of his best writing, and his experiences in the mountains… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Christopher Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1606391143
- Language: English
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Life Among the Savages
$18.00 Add to cartIn a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children.
In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkne- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0143128043
- Language: English
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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
$26.00 Read moreAn intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist
“Concise and compelling.”–Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939-2018) was o- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250177
- Language: English
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Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
$19.95 Add to cart“Divine Invasions” is the first full-scale biography of Philip K. Dick, a brilliant writer who, working inside the science fiction field, created some of the most powerful and lasting visionary fictio
- Author: Sutin, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 19, 1991
- ISBN10: 0806512288
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired the World’s Great Authors
$40.00 Read moreSee inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book.
Discover the flower gardens, vegetable- Author: Bennett, Jackie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0711277168
- Language: English
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
$18.99 Add to cartIn a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.
Using an essay by the Germ- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0684870193
- Language: English
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Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction
$26.95 Read moreThere has never been a full-length biography of Mickey Spillane, the most popular and influential mystery writer of his era–until now.
Beginning in 1947 with I, the Jury, and continuing with his next
- Author: Collins, Max Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1613163797
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
$19.99 Add to cartThe authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascina… [more below]
- Author: Carpenter, Humphrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0618057021
- Language: English
