Literary Figures
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Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing
$34.50 Read more#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben offers a look behind the curtain at his own writing process in an inspiring, candid memoir filled with indispensable insights and techniques.
“For aspi
- Author: Coben, Harlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1538786524
- Language: English
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Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing
$32.50 Read more#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben offers a look behind the curtain at his own writing process in an inspiring, candid memoir filled with indispensable insights and techniques.
“For aspi
- Author: Coben, Harlan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1538784629
- Language: English
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
$29.95 Add to cart“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”–Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentiet- Author: Bailey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0691290172
- Language: English
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A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections
$12.95 Add to cartJames Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward’s two sisters, Anna Lefroy a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen-Leigh, James Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540772
- Language: English
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
$21.00 Add to cartLangston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance — a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What’s less well known about Hughes is t… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727078
- Language: English
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Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art
$29.95 Read moreWith Virginia Woolf as a guide, the stories of eight radical 20th century women–wanderers, rebels, explorers, mentors–who made a life for themselves in spite of everything.
Everything that changed i- Author: Fernald, Anne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 0807021334
- Language: English
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Jane. Una Biograf?a Literaria de Jane Austen / Jane. a Literary Biography of Jane Austen
$25.95 Add to cartEn el 250. aniversario de Jane Austen, Cristina O?oro y Ana Jar?n nos descubren a la autora como nunca la hab?amos conocido: un viaje por la vida y obra de una autora fascinante.
Jane nace en la rect- Author: Oñoro, Cristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 8426431925
- Language: Spanish
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$18.99 Read moreA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063211831
- Language: English
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
$29.99 Read moreAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Es
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 006224857X
- Language: English
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Memoirs
$18.95 Read moreWhen Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams’ candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug u… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0811216691
- Language: English
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Robert Louis Stevenson
$22.00 Read moreR. L. Stevenson’s life and writing, which reflected a restless mind in a global age.
This concise biography offers a fresh portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trott- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Norquay, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391684
- Language: English
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The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting
$17.95 Add to cartA fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the obsessive world of collecting (and stamps) by maverick historian and cult writer Robert Irwin.
“[A] delightful mishmash of quotations, digressions, obs- Author: Irwin, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1805337769
- Language: English
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The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartA VULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony.” -Robert Jones, Jr. “White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human.” -John Irving I’m at an age when writers are suppo- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1639739319
- Language: English
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Before I Forget: A Memoir (and Then Some)
$20.00 Add to cart“A writer’s vivid recollection of an age when every day could be a dream.” Kirkus Reviews
From humble beginnings in a fractured family, Aram Saroyan, author of the most controversial one-word poem in h
- Author: Saroyan, Aram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1953103685
- Language: English
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Adrift in the South
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began a decade spent moving between the garment mills and electronics fac
- Author: Hai, Xiao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1738536262
- Language: English
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Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)
$19.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant book of recollection, one of America’s finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man’s sensibility. S… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0394759486
- Language: English
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Something to Declare
$19.99 Add to cartJulia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom. “Los Angeles Times” From… [more below]
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 161620558X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$25.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller – One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025- A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book – Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Ch… [more below]
- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0525561749
- Language: English
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The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cart“Inspiring, exquisitely researched, and deftly written. I loved it.” –Elizabeth Gilbert, author, Eat, Pray, Love
In this powerful new biography, the legendary fin-de-si?cle adventuress Isabelle Eberha
- Author: Jaouad, Hédi A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1953103723
- Language: English
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The Coalwood Way
$10.99 Add to cartIn this “irresistible” memoir “as compelling and rousing as a NASA liftoff” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys takes us deeper into the soul of… [more below]
- Series: Coalwood #2
- Author: Hickam, Homer
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0440237165
- Language: English
