Literary Figures
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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life
$26.95 Read moreOpen the pages of so many children’s classics and get a glimpse into the life of Garth Williams, the artist that sparked the imagination of generations.
Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, The Rescuers, a- Author: Wallace, Elizabeth K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0825307953
- Language: English
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Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith
$21.95 Add to cartFlannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually succeeded in becomi… [more below]
- Series: People of God
- Author: O’Donnell, Angela Ailamo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0814637019
- Language: English
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
$21.00 Add to cartEdith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York s- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0684847558
- Language: English
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The Hemingway Women
$33.99 Add to cartMany books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated — his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wive… [more below]
- Author: Kert, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: May 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0393318354
- Language: English
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In My Father’s Court
$19.00 Add to cartLike Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0374505926
- Language: English
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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
$25.00 Add to cart“In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.”
The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, Reborn (1947-1963) reveals o- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428502
- Language: English
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City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara
$21.99 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Frank O’Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York’s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s
- Author: Gooch, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0062303414
- Language: English
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
$21.00 Add to cartJudith Thurman’s brilliant, National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen–now with a new foreword by the author
A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biog- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250857090
- Language: English
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Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides
$35.00 Add to cart“No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career–from travel to history to her own transition–she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty.” —Stua
- Author: Clements, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 195035492X
- Language: English
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Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California
$17.95 Add to cartIn 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol, s
- Author: Specktor, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1951142624
- Language: English
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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
$20.99 Add to cartThe Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.
In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky A
- Author: Davis, Linda H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1684426898
- Language: English
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Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties
$18.95 Add to cartMany readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Cl
- Author: Kunin, Madeleine May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1732854084
- Language: English
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Crazy Loco Love
$24.99 Add to cartGrowing up on his parents’ ranch in North San Diego County, Victor Villase?or’s teenage years were marked by a painful quest to find a place for himself in a world he did not fit into. Discriminated d… [more below]
- Author: Villasenor, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1582702721
- Language: English
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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
$18.00 Add to cartTHE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS
The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins–perfect for fans of the movie Mary Poppins Returns and the original Disney clas- Author: Lawson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1476762929
- Language: English
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Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
$19.99 Add to cartReese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine’s April 2018 book pick
A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.- Author: Harpham, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1250301149
- Language: English
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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
$36.99 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of 2012
From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to the eve of the 1980 election, As Conscious- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024129
- Language: English
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$19.00 Add to cartTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible caus- Author: Dawidziak, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250792517
- Language: English
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El Pez En El Agua / A Fish in Water: A Memoir
$31.95 Read moreEDICI?N ESPECIAL 30. ANIVERSARIO
El libro m?s autobiogr?fico de Vargas Llosa: la memoria del surgimiento de sus vocaciones literaria y pol?tica.
«La escritura de Mario Vargas Llosa ha dado form… [more below]- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 8420475424
- Language: Spanish
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Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life
$29.99 Add to cartA rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years.
An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies–thos- Author: Epstein, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668009633
- Language: English
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Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History
$21.95 Add to cartAWARD-WINNING CREATIVE NONFICTION BIOGRAPHY
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW” 2018
1885-1914. Mary Fields, a fifty-three-year-old second-generation slave, emancipated and residing in Tole
- Author: Metcalf McConnell, Miantae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 0997877006
- Language: English
