Literary Figures
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Conundrum
$16.95 Add to cartOne of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek).
“A profound… [more below]- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 1590171896
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
$17.99 Add to cartBill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship–updated with a new i
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0062564625
- Language: English
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Sun and Steel
$28.99 Add to cartIn this fascinating document, one of Japan’s best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of wri
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: January 02 1970
- ISBN10: 6159424645
- Language: English
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
This “lively and important portrait of a true literary revolutionary” (Los Angeles Times) explores Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic–and co- Author: Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1668010917
- Language: English
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The Invention of Charlotte Bront?: A New Life
$29.95 Add to cartA profoundly moving, ground-breaking biography that challenges the established narrative to reveal the Bront? family as they’ve never been seen before.
Charlotte Bront? had a life as seemingly dramati- Author: Watson, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 163936935X
- Language: English
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Baldwin: A Love Story
$36.00 Add to cartDrawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relati
- Author: Boggs, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0374178712
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$29.99 Add to cartA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0063212072
- Language: English
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She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music
$29.95 Add to cartJane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books o… [more below]
- Author: Dooley, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1526170108
- Language: English
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
$18.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway’s dangerous secret life in espionage
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award
“IMPORTANT” (Wall Street
- Author: Reynolds, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062440144
- Language: English
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Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
$40.00 Read moreRobert E. Howard (1906-1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, more popularly referred to as Conan the Barbarian. However, he also wrote across a wide array of genres
- Author: Oliver, Willard M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419633
- Language: English
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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
$30.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created.
See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters t- Author: Conrad, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399409190
- Language: English
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Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
$16.00 Add to cartWhat Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgl… [more below]
- Author: Broyard, Anatole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 24 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781269
- Language: English
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Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
$18.95 Add to cartIn this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its G… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 168137921X
- Language: English
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be re… [more below]- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0525432949
- Language: English
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Jane Austen in 41 Objects
$40.00 Add to cartA new kind of biography on Jane Austen examining the objects she encountered during her life alongside newer memorabilia inspired by the life she lived.
More than two hundred years after Jane Austen’s
- Author: Sutherland, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246266
- Language: English
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Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century–an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce
- Author: Leader, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248392
- Language: English
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
$32.00 Add to cartDrawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard, is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bes
- Author: Kushins, C. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 63306867
- Language: English
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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O’Brien
$37.00 Add to cartThe first literary biography of Tim O’Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original int
- Author: Vernon, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250358493
- Language: English
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Malaparte: A Biography
$39.95 Add to cartA sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artist… [more below]
- Author: Serra, Maurizio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378701
- Language: English
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I Tell You Now (Second Edition): Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
$19.95 Add to cartI Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and … [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Krupat, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293143
- Language: English
