Literary Figures
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cartNominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Priz… [more below]
- Author: Middlebrook, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 27 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741828
- Language: English
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Life in the Garden
$17.00 Read moreFrom the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life
Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions- Author: Lively, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 052555839X
- Language: English
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
$48.99 Add to cartIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393073467
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$19.00 Add to cartFashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0375759379
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived … [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0375500723
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume Five, 1936-1941
$32.50 Add to cartVirginia Woolf was fifty-four on January 25, 1936, some three weeks after this final volume of her diary opens. Its last page was written four days before she drowned herself on March 28, 1941. Edited… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #5
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0156260409
- Language: English
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and self-discovery by Sue Monk Kidd, the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor
Sue Monk Kid- Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117971
- Language: English
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The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece
$18.99 Add to cart“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to o
- Author: Weinman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0062661930
- Language: English
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The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
$17.99 Add to cartA journey into the imagination of C.S. Lewis explores the themes and life events that contributed to The Chronicles of Narnia, the most enduring classics of children’s literature
C.S. Lewis was one of
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0061448729
- Language: English
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Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
$32.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Both controversi
The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth century.- Author: Brennan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829682
- Language: English
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Unbridled Dreamer
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #1
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065274
- Language: English
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Ahora Imagino Cosas / Now I Imagine Things
$19.95 Read more« Herbert escribe memorias? Ensayos? Novelas? Sus libros son mash-ups de recuerdos, investigaci?n y ornamentaci?n ficcional, marcados por una c?lida falta de respeto por los g?neros –como es … [more below]
- Author: Herbert, Juli?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 8439737459
- Language: Spanish
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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Trip to Echo Spring
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2014
Olivia Laing’s widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of America
A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250063736
- Language: English
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Ian Fleming
$45.00 Add to cartWe all know who James Bond is, but how many of us know much about his creator, Ian Fleming, a master of espionage and thrillers? In this full-length biography, author Andrew Lycett tells the story of
- Author: Lycett, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037980
- Language: English
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, S
San Francisco Chronicle – Newsweek/The Daily Beast – The Seattle Times – The Economist – Kansas City Star – BookPage- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0812982606
- Language: English
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
$20.00 Add to cartA former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life–including Post O… [more below]
- Author: Sounes, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136974
- Language: English
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Joe Dimaggio: The Hero’s Life
$21.99 Add to cartJoe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.
In the hard-knuckled thirties, he was the immigrant boy who made it big–and spurred the New York Yankees to a new era- Author: Cramer, Richard Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0684865475
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$22.00 Add to cartIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
“A curiousl- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394486927
- Language: English
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Elegy for Iris
$23.00 Add to cartWith remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch–world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years–and poignantly describes the dim
- Author: Bayley, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312253826
- Language: English
