Literary Figures
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Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
$30.99 Add to cartDelmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined.
Delmore Schwartz was only tw- Author: Atlas, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539146
- Language: English
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
$15.99 Add to cart‘JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK’ CATHY RENTZENBRINK
‘A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND’ STYLIST, 50 UNMI- Author: Fowler, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1786484900
- Language: English
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Men We Reaped
$27.99 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 160819521X
- Language: English
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Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life
$24.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary New York Times bestselling masterpiece from “one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Kathleen Norris had written several m- Author: Norris, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1594484384
- Language: English
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Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
$18.99 Add to cartA “compassionate, unflinching memoir” (David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas) by a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her i… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 145167659X
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartA memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
” Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of … [more below]- Author: Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1400080460
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254761
- Language: English
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Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw
$21.99 Add to cart“[A] gorgeously-written . . . brave and generous memoir” about growing up in a family with conflicting ideas about being Jewish and finding your own path (Dani Shapiro, New York Times-bestselling auth… [more below]
- Author: Altman, Elissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1504093569
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
$14.95 Read more254 pages, 4 3/4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series
- Series: South Dakota Biography
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097779556X
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: Living in Fire
$22.95 Add to cart‘A scrupulous biography’ — Publishers Weekly
‘Fresh, incisive, and uplifting’ — Kirkus ‘If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read’ — Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Mon- Series: Revolutionary Lives
- Author: Mullen, Bill V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745338534
- Language: English
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Return to Paris: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartParis, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenag… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743439686
- Language: English
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945
$35.99 Add to cartThis true account of spycraft in the UK during World War II is “spellbinding…a compelling insider’s view to the shadow war: intrigue and treachery, double-dealing and deception, hope and despair, tr… [more below]
- Author: Marks, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 068486780X
- Language: English
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Three Weeks with My Brother
$35.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.
As moving as his bestselling works of fi- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0446500100
- Language: English
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Tolstoy: A Biography
$35.99 Add to cartIn this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer’s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his litera
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393321223
- Language: English
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The Young Hemingway
$24.99 Add to cartMichael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America’s greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway’s persona: his father’s self-destructive battl
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0393317765
- Language: English
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
$23.99 Add to cartWorlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut
In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenect- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536538
- Language: English
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Pentimento
$21.99 Add to cartThe second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author.
In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unf- Series: Back Bay Books
- Author: Hellman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0316352888
- Language: English
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
$22.99 Add to cartFew American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into s… [more below]
- Author: Wenner, Jann S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316005282
- Language: English
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Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop
$20.00 Add to cartThe profoundly moving family history of one of America’s greatest newspapermen.
As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld- Author: Lelyveld, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425104
- Language: English
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Wait for Me!
$26.99 Add to cartThe autobiography of one of Britain’s most beloved figures, last of the Mitford sisters, renowned writer and social figure.
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously wi- Author: Mitford, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610645
- Language: English
