Literary Figures
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
$35.00 Add to cartA Time Must-Read Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year
Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the l- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0374603278
- Language: English
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Writers Who Changed History
$40.00 Add to cartThis visual celebration of the world’s most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.
Writers Who Changed History places well-known writers in their histor- Series: DK History Changers
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0744096952
- Language: English
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Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers
$29.95 Add to cartThe first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after
- Author: McCarthy, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752483
- Language: English
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic–and controversial–young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me,- Author: Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668010909
- Language: English
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Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words
$29.95 Add to cartAn in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United States
Tove Jansson achieved fame as the creator of the Moomins, beloved by gene
- Author: Westin, Boel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1517917298
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
$22.00 Read moreA New York Times notable book of 2023 A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize
“[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstrei- Author: Waldstreicher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321735
- Language: English
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
$32.00 Add to cartA scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created the… [more below]
- Author: Smyth, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605640
- Language: English
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own child… [more below]- Author: Jones, Brian Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1524742791
- Language: English
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Boccaccio: A Biography
$37.50 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.
Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” o- Author: Santagata, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226820947
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
$27.95 Add to cartThe first book in the ‘Biography of a novel’ series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece.
The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist maste- Series: Biography of a Novel
- Author: Hussey, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526176815
- Language: English
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E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America’s Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author
$32.95 Read moreUncover the legacy of E.D.E.N. Southworth, the trailblazing novelist whose daring heroines and progressive ideals captivated a generation, only to be forgotten by history–until now
E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: Neal, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089137
- Language: English
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My Lives: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“This is Edmund White’s best book by far, and a classic of emotional intelligence and generosity. . . . My Lives subsumes and concentrates all his other work.”–Daily Telegraph (London)
No one has been
- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0060937963
- Language: English
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February House
$21.99 Add to cartFebruary House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers — and the country’s best-known burlesque performer — in a hous
- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2006
- ISBN10: 061871197X
- Language: English
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
$30.00 Add to cartA raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and fo… [more below]
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668094711
- Language: English
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
$16.00 Add to cartBastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Thi… [more below]
- Author: Allison, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0452273404
- Language: English
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Goethe: His Faustian Life – The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem That Made Our World
$35.00 Read more** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR **
‘Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.‘ – Frances Wilson, The Telegraph
‘Exuberant and wide-ranging’ – Literary Review
‘Passion- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1472994868
- Language: English
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Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between m… [more below]
- Author: McFadden, Bernice L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184971
- Language: English
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Origins of a Story: 202 True Inspirations Behind the World’s Greatest Literature
$24.95 Add to cartFor readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world’s greatest literature!
Did you know Lennie from Of Mice an
- Author: Grogan, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1604337516
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$28.00 Add to cartA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator a… [more below]
- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602790
- Language: English
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Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
$49.95 Add to cartThe incredible story of the first director of the Morgan Library: a visionary Black woman who walked confidently in an early 20th-century man’s world of wealth and privilege
When J.P. Morgan’s personal
- Author: Da Costa Greene, Belle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811353
- Language: English
