American - 20th century
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The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Writing a Woman’s Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond.
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun- Author: Heilbrun, Carolyn G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0345422953
- Language: English
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The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People
$19.95 Add to cartThis beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, … [more below]
- Author: Logan, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0299309045
- Language: English
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Incest: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana? Nin (1932-1934)
$25.99 Add to cartThe continuation of the story begun in Henry and June, exposing the shattering psychological drama that drove Nin to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. “It is Nin… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0156443007
- Language: English
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Robert Frost: A Life
$34.99 Add to cartThis fascinating reassessment of America’s most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends… [more below]
- Author: Parini, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805063412
- Language: English
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One Life at a Time, Please
$20.00 Add to cartFrom stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.
Autho… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: February 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805006036
- Language: English
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My Life and Hard Times
$15.99 Add to cart“Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” — New Republic
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks b
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060933089
- Language: English
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$19.99 Read more“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
–Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as… [more below]- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1612197795
- Language: English
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At Home in the World
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author of Labor Day
When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard’s memoir broke a silence concern- Author: Maynard, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250046440
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$17.95 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066075
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 067972463X
- Language: English
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Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
$24.00 Add to cartIn Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but br… [more below]
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140231587
- Language: English
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Generations: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartA moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa.
Buffalo, New York. A f- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375877
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
$24.95 Read morePoet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black … [more below]
- Series: Library of Black America
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1556522312
- Language: English
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The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
$42.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on P… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0679643257
- Language: English
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A Drinking Life: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThis bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is “a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction” (New York Times).
As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pe… [more below]- Author: Hamill, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0316341029
- Language: English
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1934-1939
$28.99 Add to cartBeginning with Nin’s arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the … [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #02
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 25 1970
- ISBN10: 0156260263
- Language: English
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Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
$19.99 Add to cart“It’s shocking to learn that this is McBride’s first book…Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more” –Los Angeles Times
The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneer- Author: McBride, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1982117036
- Language: English
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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
$19.95 Add to cartRon Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
- Author: Padgett, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1566891590
- Language: English
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A Chance Meeting: American Encounters
$19.95 Add to cartWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture–from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Nea… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378108
- Language: English
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Green Mountain Farm
$20.99 Add to cartIn 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, Elliott Merrick and his wife, Kate, bought a ramshackle farm on a Vermont hillside for $1,000. Merrick, a young writer with a healthy dose of idealism a… [more below]
- Author: Merrick, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0881504351
- Language: English
