American - 20th century
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Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
$11.99 Read moreNewbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his best-selling fiction. And don’t miss the author’s highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wed… [more below]
- Author: Spinelli, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0679887911
- Language: English
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$32.00 Read moreCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0374126658
- Language: English
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Arthur Miller: American Witness
$26.00 Read moreA great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights
“Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not reduce- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Lahr, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0300234929
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$26.95 Read moreIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882047
- Language: English
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition
$24.95 Read moreA revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life.
UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1681375834
- Language: English
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction – From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: “This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Ho… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345807170
- Language: English
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
$18.95 Add to cartCharles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifet
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0872864928
- Language: English
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A Man of Much Importance: The Art and Life of Terrence McNally
$36.95 Read moreFor nearly sixty years, playwright Terrence McNally has been a force in American theater. His work, encompassing plays, musicals, teleplays, and opera, has been performed around the world. McNally is
- Author: Byrne, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493053779
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- Language: English
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Who Is R. L. Stine?
$6.99 Read moreReader beware! The biography of R. L. Stine, author of the hugely popular Goosebumps series, is a scary-good time!
R. L. Stine began writing stories at the age of nine, after finding a typewriter in- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Payne, M. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 039953959X
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
$25.00 Read moreBecoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpubli… [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Butler, Virginia McGee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844742
- Language: English
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A Story Is to Share: How Ruth Krauss Found Another Way to Tell a Tale
$19.99 Read moreA picture book from award-winning storytellers, author Carter Higgins and illustrator Isabelle Arsenault, A Story Is to Share is the extraordinarily told, one-of-a-kind story of legendary author and c… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Carter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749935
- Language: English
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Starflower: The Making of a Poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay
$18.99 Read moreJ. M. Farkas and Emily Vizzo’s Starflower is a lyrical picture book biography about Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s childhood and the two sisters who inspired her.
Good things c- Author: Farkas, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1951836510
- Language: English
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Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While Dying
$25.00 Add to cartAn uplifting journey of truly seeing and appreciating what makes life worth living in the year following a terminal diagnosis
For fans of Ann Patchett’s These Precious Days and Joan Didion’s The Year- Author: Monninger, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1586423606
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a Writer
$23.95 Read moreThe first and only YA biography of the great American novelist and humanist comes out on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat’s- Author: Wakefield, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211904
- Language: English
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Rascal
$8.99 Read moreA Newbery Honor Book
Celebrating 50 years of a beloved classic! Nothing’s surprising in the North household, not even Sterling’s new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, b- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: North, Sterling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: April 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0140344454
- Language: English
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Brother, I’m Dying: National Book Award Finalist
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think
A National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 1400034302
- Language: English
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Why Didn’t You Tell Me? ¿Por Qué No Me Lo Dijiste? (Spanish Edition)
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Wong, Carmen Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063209993
- Language: Spanish
