Literary Figures
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Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey
$19.00 Add to cartIn a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independe… [more below]
- Author: Kuusisto, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1451689802
- Language: English
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
$19.99 Add to cartIn this inspiring memoir–that Jane Fonda raves “will make you braver…want to live your life better and make a difference”–the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks Like Cra… [more below]
- Author: Cleage, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1451664702
- Language: English
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At Home in the World
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author of Labor Day
When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard’s memoir broke a silence concern- Author: Maynard, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250046440
- Language: English
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
$35.00 Add to cartCyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been … [more below]
- Author: Connolly, Cyril
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 27 2005
- ISBN10: 089255410X
- Language: English
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Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of th
- Author: Prentiss, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0826355919
- Language: English
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Savage Gods
$15.95 Read more* Chicago Tribune “Fall literary preview: books you need to read now”
* Vulture “The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall”
* The Guardian “A best book of 2019”
After moving with his wife and two chil- Author: Kingsnorth, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1937512851
- Language: English
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My Fairy-Tale Life
$19.99 Add to cartHans 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 Read more- 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
$27.00 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 Read moreA 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
