Literary Figures
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Come to Dinner: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion
$14.99 Read more“An icon, unmasked. A friendship, unforgettable.”
A rare, revelatory portrait of Joan Didion–told not thr
Didion, like you’ve never seen her–this memoir could have easily been titled EAT. PRAY. JOAN.- Author: Davidson, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798998722387
- Language: English
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Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
$35.00 Read moreBy his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback
- Author: Streitfeld, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063234882
- Language: English
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Light and Thread
$20.00 Read moreFrom Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English–a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.
In this light-filled and multi-facete- Author: Kang, Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217155033
- Language: English
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
$19.00 Add to cartAn expansive, illuminating, and “welcome addition to understand” (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood–from the author… [more below]
- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982185805
- Language: English
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Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartIn her most innovative book yet, Molly Gaudry embarks on a search for belonging amid loss, framing her memoir around a fictional narrative featuring the tea house woman–a character who appeared first
- Author: Gaudry, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1941628370
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced Eu… [more below]
- Author: Di Robilant, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0307743845
- Language: English
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Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938
$15.99 Add to cartMary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American C… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 1993
- ISBN10: 0156447878
- Language: English
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Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King
$23.99 Add to cartOne of the most prolific and popular authors in the world today, Stephen King has become part of pop culture history. His best-selling novels such as Carrie, It, Christine, and many others have captur
- Author: Rogak, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603509
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
$21.00 Add to cartFrom rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author’s favorite authors” (Today)–the women who inspired Jane Austen–that… [more below]
- Author: Romney, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1982190256
- Language: English
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Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway
$39.95 Add to cartThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers’s magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach ha… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185094
- Language: English
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Joe Gould’s Secret
$19.00 Add to cartJoseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared. What Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally, was
- Author: Mitchell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375708049
- Language: English
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First Comes Love: A Memoir
$26.83 Read moreA heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by longtime All Things Considered commentator and author of The Glen Rock Book of the Dead charts the trajectory of a marriage so impossible that it became inevita… [more below]
- Author: Winik, Marion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0679765557
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartWith the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of cl… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119923
- Language: English
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Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
$20.00 Add to cartThe adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed “the lost generation”, are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Cr… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Cowley, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187766
- Language: English
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Judy Blume: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted.
To know the name Judy Blume is to know- Author: Oppenheimer, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 059371444X
- Language: English
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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
$22.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE – “A beautiful and deeply moving book.”–Sally Rooney, author of Normal People
An engrossing group portrait of five women wri… [more below]- Author: Wade, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0451497805
- Language: English
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Wartime Writings 1939-1944
$22.00 Add to cartThis volume includes the aviator’s letters to friends, autobiographical fragments, and meditations. Translated by Norah Purcell; Introduction by Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Index.
- Author: de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027534
- Language: English
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The Years with Ross
$18.99 Add to cartFrom iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross
“Extremely ent
- Series: Perennial Classics #285
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0060959711
- Language: English
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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
$18.99 Add to cart“Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John
- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0061490199
- Language: English
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The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Curran, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0008679886
- Language: English
