Literary Figures
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Sculptor’s Daughter
$19.99 Add to cartTove Jansson s memoirs of her early years, filled with joy, exuberance, and the satisfaction of being with an abundance of photographic illustrations.
The excitement of being alive and savoring the goo
- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 08 2020
- ISBN10: 006233462X
- Language: English
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Life and Art: Essays
$28.00 Add to cartA marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody’s Fool and The Destiny Thief
Life and Art–these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s twelve masterfu- Author: Russo, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 593802160
- Language: English
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Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel
$29.95 Add to cartDelve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the depths of despair to the celebration of life, Wiesel’s fifteen novels offer a poignan… [more below]
- Author: Rosmarin, L?onard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 24 2024
- ISBN10: 177161756X
- Language: English
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After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
$29.99 Add to cartA moving and penetrating memoir of a life in biography from the Pulitzer Prize winner and “gifted storyteller” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker).
Megan Marshall’s innovative books, including The Peabody
- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0618684182
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$45.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
Before he was Mark Twai- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 525561722
- Language: English
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Notes to John
$32.00 Add to cartA new book coming from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593803671
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Life Album
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of th- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300262205
- Language: English
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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998
$40.00 Add to cartFor the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner, inviting readers into the world behind the novels and nonfiction of a literary force.
The name Helen Garne- Author: Garner, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0553387499
- Language: English
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In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf
$27.00 Add to cartFor readers of Also a Poet, Orwell’s Roses, and My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers–as well as the legions of Virginia Woolf fanatics–the acclaimed poet and author of The Crying Book crafts a deepl… [more below]
- Author: Christle, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1643755927
- Language: English
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The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography
$28.00 Add to cartA brilliant collaboration between internationally acclaimed Jane Austen expert, Janine Barchas, and New York Times bestselling graphic novelist, Isabel Greenberg.
The Novel Life of Jane Austen is a o- Author: Barchas, Janine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489375
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
$21.99 Add to cartThis “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) from New York Times bestselling author James Patterson is a collection of riveting stories celebrating the heroic efforts of the people who are on the… [more below]
- Series: Heroes Among Us #4
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538758989
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi.
Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is exp- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140390502
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author
“There never was a good biography of a novelist,” F. Sco
- Author: Salmose, Niklas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915856
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$24.00 Add to cart“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, ” is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait o… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970314
- Language: English
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Alphabetical Diaries
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a Recommended Read of the Year by The New Yorker and a New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year
One of The Los Angeles Times‘s 15 Best Books of the Year
One of The New Statesman‘s 20 Best Books- Author: Heti, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371732
- Language: English
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
$16.95 Read moreFour “pitch-perfect” (Oprah Daily) essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look into the origins of her literary prowess. S
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1609458249
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
$49.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking exploration of one of America’s most iconic and misunderstood authors
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinati- Author: Kopley, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0813952239
- Language: English
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we le
- Author: Lerner, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0062354477
- Language: English
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Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
$17.95 Add to cartOn an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf
- Author: Shattuck, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030825
- Language: English
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The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories
$16.99 Add to cart“Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras.” –Andrew Martin, The New York Times
Best-known- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 4805318341
- Language: English
