Literary Figures
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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
$27.00 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
$17.99 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
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North Toward Home
$21.00 Add to cartWith his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country’s finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0375724605
- Language: English
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Traversal
$36.00 Add to cartFrom the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful life.
In Traversal, her startling and moving new book, Maria Popova traverses the border- Author: Popova, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0374616418
- Language: English
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Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
$35.00 Add to cartAn unflinching, brilliantly written, darkly funny, lavishly illustrated memoir by the acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time A ringing testament about how one artist see… [more below]
- Author: Haddon, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0385551894
- Language: English
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Literary Gardens: The Imaginary Gardens of Writers and Poets
$26.00 Add to cartGardens both real and imagined have long captured our imaginations. They are places of mystery and magic, beauty and danger, romance and revelation; writers have used them to reflect longing and creat
- Author: Lawrence, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1836002203
- Language: English
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Hitch-22: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cart“If Hitchens didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be able to invent him.” ―Ian McEwan
A stylish new paperback edition of HITCH-22, the incendiary memoir of a brilliant contrarian and one of Hitchens’ most- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 03 2011
- ISBN10: 044654034X
- Language: English
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
$21.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
“Meticulously researched.” —The New York Times
“A first-rate biography.” —Washington Post
A lively and intimate biogr
- Author: Reading, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 006327857X
- Language: English
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson
$22.50 Add to cartThe year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write
- Author: Geltner, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970370
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$18.00 Add to cartAt her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English–but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0679766766
- Language: English
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An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year
$35.00 Add to cartCelebrate animals with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year.
From beloved pets to majestic wildlife, and even the first dog in space, animals have long been a source- Author: McMorland Hunter, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1837330018
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartWith the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the pa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Shields, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035169
- Language: English
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A Man Without a Country: 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThe last of the canonical Kurt Vonnegut books, A Man Without a Country spent eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, selling over a quarter-million copies
This 20th ann- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214881
- Language: English
