Literary Figures
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The Places of Marguerite Duras
$25.00 Add to cartThe first English translation of an important and evocative interview-turned-book project in Marguerite Duras’ illustrious oeuvre
“I could talk for hours about this house, this garden. I know it all, I
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1738901343
- Language: English
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
$28.00 Add to cartA biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines
“Peter Stothard is a master of modern writing about ancient Rome, of vividl- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Stothard, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300256582
- Language: English
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Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life
$29.99 Add to cartDevouring Time is the definitive biography of Jim Harrison–one of America’s most beloved writers–and a penetrating deep dive into the life of the talent behind Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and True N
- Author: Goddard, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1799902366
- Language: English
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
$40.00 Add to cartA long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.
In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends.- Author: Jusdanis, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0374610428
- Language: English
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
$22.00 Add to cart*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book*
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York T- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250354587
- Language: English
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A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler
$40.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.
Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like A- Author: Kernan, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374281173
- Language: English
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The Key to Everything: May Swenson, a Writer’s Life
$29.95 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poet
May Swenson (1913-1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of t- Author: Brucia, Margaret a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0691247234
- Language: English
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The World According to Joan Didion
$18.99 Add to cart**INDIE BESTSELLER**
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions – B&N Best Books of 2023 – “Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace … McDonnell’s portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive,
- Author: McDonnell, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0063419157
- Language: English
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Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
$35.00 Add to cartFrom a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction
“This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevens- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300268629
- Language: English
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The Cat Inside
$16.00 Add to cartBest known for the wild, phantasmagoric satire of works like Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs reveals another, gentler side in The Cat Inside. Originally published as a limited-edition volume, this m… [more below]
- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0142000256
- Language: English
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Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Bird Box and Incidents Around the House, an impassioned book about a night that changed the author’s life and put into perspective the writing life–and how you too can … [more below]
- Author: Malerman, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593983270
- Language: English
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Patrimony: A True Story (National Book Critics Circle Award Winner)
$22.17 Read moreWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD – “A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir” (San Francisco Chronicle) about a son watching his elderly father battle with the brain tumor that will … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Roth, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0679752935
- Language: English
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Into the Weeds
$20.00 Add to cartAn illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis
When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her unc- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279744
- Language: English
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In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig
$34.95 Add to cartA refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
In the Future of Yesterday delves into Stefan Zweig’s considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Je- Author: Görner, Rüdiger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1914979109
- Language: English
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
$20.00 Read moreAnna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature
Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Aus- Author: Beer, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0861546849
- Language: English
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A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt
$32.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
“Chakkalakal asks the reader to see the ‘First Negro Novelist’ as he saw himself: a writer and student of American letters at a time when the literary marketplace stru- Author: Chakkalakal, Tess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250287634
- Language: English
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Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me
$24.95 Add to cartA moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism.
Since James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his writing – including The Fi- Author: Field, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526175177
- Language: English
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Life Span
$19.95 Add to cartLIFE SPAN, a memoir in flash form, is the first book of nonfiction from award-winning fiction writer Molly Giles. A life-long resident of the Bay Area, Giles has crossed and recrossed the Golden Gate
- Author: Giles, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987719756
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
$21.00 Add to cartAn “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (Andr? Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became a… [more below]
- Author: Winkler, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982171278
- Language: English
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The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
$16.99 Add to cart“In this vibrant memoir, Obama-inaugural poet Richard Blanco tenderly, exhilaratingly chronicles his Miami childhood amid a colorful, if suffocating, family of Cuban exiles, as well as his quest to fi
- Author: Blanco, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0062313770
- Language: English
