American - 20th century
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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 Read moreWeaving 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
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
$17.00 Add to cart“Generous and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for “Best Memoir & Autobiography” by Goodreads- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1476723427
- Language: English
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My Losing Season: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball–and life itself–by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
During o… [more below]- Author: Conroy, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0553381903
- Language: English
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
$19.00 Add to cartIn this vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century–Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton–“the friendship and rivalry that the pair shared–not to mention the t… [more below]
- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982138424
- Language: English
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
$36.95 Add to cartNo one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country’s most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic
- Series: Environmental History and the American South
- Author: Davis, Jack E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 810
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 082033779X
- Language: English
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Onions in the Stew
$22.95 Add to cart“For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used t
- Author: MacDonald, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0295999802
- Language: English
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Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
$38.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 PLUTARCH AWARD – An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm.
“Clam… [more below]- Author: Spiegelman, Willard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0525658262
- Language: English
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston’s imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent … [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0062004832
- Language: English
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Bard, Kinetic
$19.95 Add to cartThe expansive, countercultural, and wildly prolific life of celebrated poet Anne Waldman, in her own words.
In Bard, Kinetic, Anne Waldman assembles a multifaceted portrait of her life and praxis as a- Author: Waldman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 156689669X
- Language: English
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My Exaggerated Life: Pat Conroy
$29.99 Read moreAn oral biography that reveals the Southern author’s true voice
Pat Conroy’s memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn’t revealed to readers–un
- Author: Clark, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1611179076
- Language: English
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Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile
$19.95 Add to cartFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.
- Author: Shrayer, Maxim D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1644699982
- Language: English
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In the Great Green Room
$23.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown.
Margaret’s books have- Author: Gary, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160626
- Language: English
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Treasury of American Pen-And-Ink Illustration 1881 to 1938: 236 Drawings by 103 Artists
$16.95 Read moreLooking for a good book? Treasury of American Pen & Ink Illustration 1881-1938 is a coffee-table-style book of outstanding black and white art that is magnificent to look through and should be in ever
- Series: Dover Books on Fine Art
- Author: Johnson, Fridolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0486242803
- Language: English
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
$17.95 Read moreNick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he’d received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing t… [more below]
- Author: Flynn, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393329402
- Language: English
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Heart Earth
$17.99 Add to cartIvan Doig’s companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky–inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II–is “a lyrical evocation of the Doigs’ gallantly hardscrabble existence … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501156055
- Language: English
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The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine
$16.95 Read moreA compelling blend of biography and memoir, The Field House recounts the life of writer Rachel Field-whose works for adults and children were once wildly successful but are now largely forgotten-and h… [more below]
- Author: Wood, Robin Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1647420458
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$19.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writer… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980328
- Language: English
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Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana? Nin, 1939-1947
$22.95 Add to cartMirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Ana? Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be “the O
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0804011656
- Language: English
