Literary Figures
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Earl Hamner: From Walton’s Mountain to Tomorrow
$19.99 Add to cartAn authorized biography of prolific author and screen-writer Earl Hamner. Covers his career from earliest newspaper writing, to Hollywood, the Twilight Zone and The Waltons.
- Author: Person, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: July 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1620454092
- Language: English
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Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature
In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Cond vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering- Author: Conde, Maryse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1569473471
- Language: English
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Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
$19.99 Add to cart“It’s shocking to learn that this is McBride’s first book…Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more” –Los Angeles Times
The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneer- Author: McBride, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1982117036
- Language: English
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Sacajawea
$14.95 Read moreMyth, Mystery, and legend surround Sacajawea, one of the few American Indian women whose name and singular significance have not been lost to history. Without Sacajawea’s knowledge and assistance, the… [more below]
- Author: Moulton, Candy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1941813380
- Language: English
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John Joseph Mathews, 69: Life of an Osage Writer
$21.95 Add to cartJohn Joseph Mathews (1894-1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies #69
- Author: Snyder, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160527
- Language: English
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
$18.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried
“One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam.”
—Minneapolis Star and- Author: O’Brien, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0767904435
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 11
$56.25 Add to cartMark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author’s death, as he requested. Published to rave revie… [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #11
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: October 05 2013
- ISBN10: 520272781
- Language: English
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Thinking of Home: William Faulkner’s Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925
$21.99 Add to cart“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home,” says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. How much Faulkner himself is speaking may be suggested by this moving … [more below]
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0393321231
- Language: English
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Let Me Finish
$19.99 Add to cartWidely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiogra… [more below]
- Author: Angell, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2007
- ISBN10: 015603218X
- Language: English
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The Romance of American Communism
$34.95 Add to cartWriter and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life
“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1788735501
- Language: English
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The Durrells of Corfu
$14.95 Add to cartThe Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first plac
- Author: Haag, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1781257884
- Language: English
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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
$19.95 Add to cartRon Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
- Author: Padgett, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1566891590
- Language: English
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult
$18.99 Add to cartAn irresistible, nostalgic, insightful–and “consistently intelligent and funny” (The New York Times Book Review)–ramble through classic children’s literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (an… [more below]
- Author: Handy, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1451609965
- Language: English
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Books: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartLarry McMurtry’s fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books is “a necessary and marvelous gift” (San Antonio Expres… [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1416583351
- Language: English
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A Chance Meeting: American Encounters
$19.95 Add to cartWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture–from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Nea… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378108
- Language: English
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Green Mountain Farm
$20.99 Add to cartIn 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, Elliott Merrick and his wife, Kate, bought a ramshackle farm on a Vermont hillside for $1,000. Merrick, a young writer with a healthy dose of idealism a… [more below]
- Author: Merrick, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0881504351
- Language: English
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Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy
$26.95 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his lit
- Author: Seitz, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0820356859
- Language: English
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
$20.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES
This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughte- Author: Gordon, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0812980476
- Language: English
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son
$29.95 Add to cartBorn and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885–1942) was brought face to face with the
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Percy, William Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0807100722
- Language: English
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
$22.00 Add to cartDamned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett… [more below]
- Author: Knowlson, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141250
- Language: English
