Literary Figures
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You Can’t Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk about Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
$14.99 Read moreWhat happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus probes the experience of thirteen leading authors of books for … [more below]
- Author: Marcus, Leonard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1536232971
- Language: English
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Ordinary Light: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own un… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0345804074
- Language: English
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass
$19.00 Add to cartSet in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen’s years in Africa–together with Shadows on the Grass.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724753
- Language: English
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Mythbusting Hemingway: Debunking Hemingway Myths and Celebrating the Extraordinary Stories of His Life
$34.75 Add to cartDid Ernest Hemingway kill 122 Nazis during World War II? Did he really fight champion Gene Tunney? Did he have very particular thoughts about hair? Mythbusting Hemingway answers these longstanding que
- Author: Bevilacqua, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064053
- Language: English
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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
$30.00 Read moreFor readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës.
Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or- Author: Looser, Devoney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 163557529X
- Language: English
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He, Leo: The Life and Poetry of Lew Welch
$29.95 Read moreLargely remembered for his mysterious disappearance in May 1971, Lew Welch was an important voice of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. He spoke of key issues that America was facing i… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712470
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles
$19.95 Read moreThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain’s journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts… [more below]
- Series: Notebook
- Author: de Vito, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1579129978
- Language: English
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This Little Art
$20.00 Read moreAn essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading,
- Author: Briggs, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1910695459
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartThe Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210415
- Language: English
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A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
$24.99 Read moreWhat role did Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Christian faith play in her life and writing?
The beloved Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold over 60 million copies since their publication in- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Fry, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0802876285
- Language: English
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On Being Ill: With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
$16.00 Add to cartWith magnificent language, Virginia Woolf explores the ways that illness transforms our perceptions
This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mothe… [more below]
- Series: Paris Press
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1930464134
- Language: English
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
$25.00 Read moreBecoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpubli… [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Butler, Virginia McGee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844742
- Language: English
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The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
$14.95 Read moreA wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade–now in paperback
When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982,- Author: Goodman, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1517916615
- Language: English
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth
$65.00 Add to cartThe range of J. R. R. Tolkien’s talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but als… [more below]
- Author: McIlwaine, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1851244859
- Language: English
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Autoportrait
$20.00 Read moreNominated for the Chicago Review of Books Award
A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday joy from one of America’s best contemporary novelists- Author: Ball, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221389
- Language: English
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Instead of a Letter
$16.95 Read moreWhen Diana Athill, nearly forty-three and far from a household name, sat down to write Instead of a Letter, the first in her series of trailblazing memoirs, she was looking for an answer to the questi… [more below]
- Author: Athill, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168137613X
- Language: English
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Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet
$29.95 Read moreDemystifying the “Poet Laureate of Depression”
Pleasure-loving, sarcastic, stubborn, determined, erotic, deeply sad–Jane Kenyon’s complexity and contradictions found expression in luminous poems that
- Author: Greene, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0252045386
- Language: English
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This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing
$16.95 Read moreA 2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical/Biographical
“Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in c- Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1641292946
- Language: English
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Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat
$23.99 Read more‘An inspired and original tale … Jeoffry is the greatest cat in the English language’ Hilary Mantel‘Simply unforgettable … one of the most beautiful and haunting books of recent times’ Alexander M… [more below]
- Author: Soden, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0750999314
- Language: English
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Translating Myself and Others
$36.58 Read moreLuminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitz- Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0691231168
- Language: English
