Literary Figures
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My Fairy-Tale Life
$19.99 Read moreHans Christian Andersen had every right to think of his life as a fairy tale. He came from the lowest strata of society in the then little provincial town of Odense, went to Copenhagen at the age of 1… [more below]
- Series: Dark Masters
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1907650571
- Language: English
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The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartFarah Ahmedi recounts her heartbreaking journey from war-torn Kabul to America in her New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir.
Farah Ahmedi’s “poignant tale of survival” (Chicago Tribune) chro- Author: Ahmedi, Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 141691837X
- Language: English
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Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography
$27.95 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary chara- Author: Dennison, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363327
- Language: English
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Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’
$26.00 Add to cartYoung Eliot: From St. Louis to “The Waste Land” was hailed as “exceptional” and “assiduous” (The New York Times). Robert Crawford’s meticulous, incisive scholarship continues in Eliot After “The Waste
- Author: Crawford, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872812
- Language: English
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The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells
$30.00 Add to cartThe Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the “lost ladies” of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s.… [more below]
- Author: Barry, Rebecca Rego
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 163758850X
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$17.95 Add to cartIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066075
- Language: English
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Lorenzo in Taos: D. H. Lawrence and Mabel Dodge Luhan
$32.95 Add to cartIn September, 1922, the internationally known British writer D. H. Lawrence arrived with his wife, Frieda, at the railroad station in Lamy, New Mexico. They had traveled from Australia to San Francisc
- Series: Southwest Heritage
- Author: Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: August 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0865345945
- Language: English
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Arthur Rimbaud: A Biography
$25.95 Add to cartRimbaud–a mythic name–his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call “… [more below]
- Author: Starkie, Enid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: January 01 1962
- ISBN10: 081120197X
- Language: English
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Saint-Exupery: A Biography
$36.99 Add to cartFrom a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exup?y disappeared at age forty-four during a reco- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0805079130
- Language: English
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Off to the Side: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartSelected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Off to the Side is the tale of one of America’s most beloved writers. Jim Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the … [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0802140300
- Language: English
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William Blake
$63.00 Read moreAn authoritative look at William Blake’s life and enduring relevance as a prophetic artist, poet, and printmaker
William Blake (1757-1827) created some of the most iconic images in the history of art.- Author: Myrone, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691198314
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 067972463X
- Language: English
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Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
$24.00 Add to cartIn Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but br… [more below]
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140231587
- Language: English
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Generations: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartA moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa.
Buffalo, New York. A f- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375877
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
$24.95 Read morePoet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black … [more below]
- Series: Library of Black America
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1556522312
- Language: English
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Goodbye to All That: Introduction by Miranda Seymour
$30.00 Add to cartOn the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.
Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1101907983
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartStaceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio discussing issues of race and sexuality, but it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist–here, she sh… [more below]
- Author: Chin, Staceyann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 074329291X
- Language: English
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The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
$42.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on P… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0679643257
- Language: English
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1934-1939
$28.99 Add to cartBeginning with Nin’s arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the … [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #02
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 25 1970
- ISBN10: 0156260263
- Language: English
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
$15.95 Add to cartEarly one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. T… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1846682665
- Language: English
