Literary Figures
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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
$31.00 Add to cartDrawing on never-before-seen interviews, a richly researched, sweeping examination of one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century and her partner’s emergence from… [more below]
- Author: Wade, Francesca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982186011
- Language: English
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Becoming Earth
$18.95 Add to cartIn this posthumous collection of essays, Eva Saulitis meditates on mortality, the art of living fully, and her advancing illness and nearing death, confronting the waiting question without fear or sen
- Author: Saulitis, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597099112
- Language: English
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Philip Roth: Stung by Life
$28.00 Add to cartA landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life
In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Phili- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Zipperstein, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300251556
- Language: English
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Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
$29.00 Add to cartThe son of renowned author Joe McGinniss–celebrated for works like The Selling of the President and true crime blockbusters Fatal Vision and Cruel Doubt–delivers a raw and deeply moving memoir that … [more below]
- Author: McGinniss, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668004852
- Language: English
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Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and the National Portrait Gallery, London
$35.00 Add to cartA magnificent collection of portraits combined with selections from the archives of great writers
Telling the stories of the best-loved writers in English literature, Writers Revealed investigates thei
- Author: Ault, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1855145995
- Language: English
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The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford
$29.95 Add to cart“The full-throated biography fans have been yearning for.”
“McWilliams does a remarkable job connecting Stanford’s poetry with his personal life, particularly his l
–Kirkus Starred Review, April 2025- Author: McWilliams, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 686
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1682262790
- Language: English
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True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
$40.00 Add to cartThe first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern environmental movement, by a… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1524748315
- Language: English
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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel
$35.00 Add to cartThe award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth century.
“Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is,” said- Author: Wilson, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0374613206
- Language: English
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When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever
$30.00 Add to cartA sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.
The Stories of John Cheev- Author: Cheever, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0374600996
- Language: English
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Before Night Falls: A Memoir
$27.00 Add to cart“Any attempt to reckon with Cuba’s torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas’s monumental work … an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience.” –… [more below]
- Author: Arenas, Reinaldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140157654
- Language: English
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The Places of Marguerite Duras
$25.00 Add to cartThe first English translation of an important and evocative interview-turned-book project in Marguerite Duras’ illustrious oeuvre
“I could talk for hours about this house, this garden. I know it all, I
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1738901343
- Language: English
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
$28.00 Add to cartA biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines
“Peter Stothard is a master of modern writing about ancient Rome, of vividl- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Stothard, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300256582
- Language: English
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The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
$22.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
The prizewinning memoir of one of the world’s great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice i- Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 014312997X
- Language: English
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
$37.00 Add to cartHow does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cult… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217170111
- Language: English
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Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life
$29.99 Add to cartDevouring Time is the definitive biography of Jim Harrison–one of America’s most beloved writers–and a penetrating deep dive into the life of the talent behind Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and True N
- Author: Goddard, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1799902366
- Language: English
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
$40.00 Add to cartA long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.
In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends.- Author: Jusdanis, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0374610428
- Language: English
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
$35.00 Add to cartHow does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cult… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 038554751X
- Language: English
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Making Toast: A Family Story
$15.99 Add to cart“A painfully beautiful memoir….Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.”
–E. L. Doctorow
A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner,
- Author: Rosenblatt, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0061825956
- Language: English
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The Figure Going Imaginary: Life Drawing, Poetry, the Cadaver Lab; A Year in Pieces
$23.00 Add to cartExploring drawing, fate, and the mysterious human body, Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary.
Marianne Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going
- Author: Boruch, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1556596944
- Language: English
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A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler
$40.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.
Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like A- Author: Kernan, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374281173
- Language: English
