Literary Figures
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A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA “stunning” (Hanif Abdurraqib), “unputdownable” (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness, family, and desire.
How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? Ho- Author: Dunham, Cyrus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0316444979
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
$17.00 Add to cartAs uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world–now a major motion picture.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a deb- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0307405796
- Language: English
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Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
$30.99 Add to cartDuring her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of
- Author: De Veaux, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329356
- Language: English
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
$22.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings–the dazzling handiwork of the city’s skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159834
- Language: English
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Henry and June: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anais Nin
$18.99 Add to cartThe best-selling, uncensored diary of Ana? Nin during the year she spent with Henry Miller and his wife in Paris–a thrilling and passionate account of sexual awakening.
From the original, uncensored j… [more below]
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 281
- Publish Date: October 29 1990
- ISBN10: 015640057X
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
$27.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1416591311
- Language: English
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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
$17.00 Add to cart” Kurt Vonnegut] is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review
In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with b- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 1999
- ISBN10: 0385334265
- Language: English
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$14.99 Add to cart“Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”–The New Yorker
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0060854081
- Language: English
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
$35.00 Add to cartA magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time
Joseph Frank’s award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writ- Author: Frank, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 984
- Publish Date: August 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0691155992
- Language: English
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James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
$19.99 Read moreHow 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: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1538709708
- Language: English
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Ana? Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
$19.99 Add to cartA “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).
This exchange of letters between the two controversial writ… [more below]
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 22 1989
- ISBN10: 015652791X
- Language: English
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Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship
$19.95 Add to cartBoth Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are literary superstars, known around the world as the creators of Middle-earth and Narnia. But few of their readers and fans know about the important and complex friendshi… [more below]
- Author: Duriez, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 03 2003
- ISBN10: 1587680262
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$17.99 Add to cartThe iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more.
Some writers define a ge- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Melville House
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1685890113
- Language: English
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Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet
$28.00 Add to cart“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson.”
- Author: McDowell, Marta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1604698225
- Language: English
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Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
$8.99 Read moreFrom his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore… [more below]
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0553286528
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Add to cartNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin
“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.”- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1612194001
- Language: English
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La Distancia Entre Nosotros
$18.99 Add to cart“Una historia desgarradora sobre el otro lado de la experiencia del inmigrante a EEUU- la penuria y la desolación de los niños dejados atrás por sus padres.” –Sonia Nazario, ganadora del premio Pu… [more below]
- Series: Atria Espanol
- Author: Grande, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1476710406
- Language: Spanish
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
$31.00 Add to cartThis “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is filled with true stories from the booksellers and librarians–the superheroes of reading–as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Pa… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0316572829
- Language: English
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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartIn this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented nov
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0060505869
- Language: English
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award
What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever l
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060088745
- Language: English
