Literary Figures
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartRenowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for i… [more below]
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1101910518
- Language: English
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Father and Son: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father’s experience in World War II, by a winner… [more below]
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593863151
- Language: English
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Biography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreHermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, L… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199533547
- Language: English
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
$70.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them–and their uncanny- Author: Sachs, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0691215413
- Language: English
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Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan – The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier
$14.99 Add to cart“A self-portrait devastating in its honesty…written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions.”–Donald Keene
Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an- Author: Seidensticker, Edward G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 4805316861
- Language: English
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Tony Hillerman: A Life
$29.95 Add to cart2022 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist
The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and u- Author: Morris, James McGrath
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0806175982
- Language: English
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G. K. Chesterton: The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton
$18.95 Read moreHere is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170716
- Language: English
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The Worlds of Tomie dePaola: The Art and Stories of the Legendary Artist and Author
$29.99 Add to cartBarbara Elleman’s insightful biography on Tomie dePaola captures the essence of the beloved author-illustrator through engaging stories, childhood photos, countless illustrations, and thoughtful analy… [more below]
- Author: Elleman, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1534412263
- Language: English
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Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer
$28.95 Add to cartThis rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her… [more below]
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141161
- Language: English
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
$22.00 Add to cartFrom critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth century–Zora Neale Hurston.
A woman of enormous talent and- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Boyd, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 527
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0743253299
- Language: English
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
$18.99 Add to cartThis unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need t… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0156586509
- Language: English
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Raising Demons
$24.00 Add to cartIn the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children
In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savage- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127292
- Language: English
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The Invention of Solitude
$17.00 Add to cartFrom Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel – his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood
This debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112228
- Language: English
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Tove Jansson: Work and Love
$36.99 Read moreTove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colorful and productive life, impacting significantly the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Finland. And while millions of children have grown… [more below]
- Author: Karjalainen, Tuula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0141978821
- Language: English
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The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid
$19.95 Add to cartFor nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the… [more below]
- Author: Wormser, Baron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1584657049
- Language: English
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Rain of Gold
$25.95 Add to cartThis is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villasenor’s kin, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico,… [more below]
- Author: Villasenor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 551
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 1558850309
- Language: English
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The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War
$14.00 Add to cartAn incisive demonstration of how Orwell’s body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.
Few English
- Author: Stansky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 150363549X
- Language: English
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Lives Other Than My Own
$19.00 Add to cartSELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
“You begin this memoir thinking it will be about one thing, and it turns into something else altogether–a book at onc- Author: Carrere, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013771
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
$22.99 Add to cartRecent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is “the most influential author of the century,” and The Lord of the Rings is “the book of the century.” In support of these claims, the pro… [more below]
- Author: Shippey, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0618257594
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 1, 1915-1919
$21.99 Add to cart“Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf…. This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her … [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #1
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0156260360
- Language: English
