Literary Figures
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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
$24.00 Add to cart“Fiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
J.M. Coetzee’s lat- Series: Scenes from Provincial Life #1
- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014026566X
- Language: English
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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation
$35.00 Add to cartNo writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth?a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine tha
- Author: Drout, Michael DC
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324093889
- Language: English
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Selected Letters of John Updike
$55.00 Add to cartThe arc of literary giant John Updike’s life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers–a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness … [more below]
- Author: Updike, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801547
- Language: English
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Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
$23.00 Add to cartA chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked … [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0345467345
- Language: English
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Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
$40.00 Add to cartTroublemaker tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist, famous for expos?s like The American Way of De
- Author: Kaplan, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0061578940
- Language: English
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Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard
$31.00 Add to cartA revelatory, magisterial biography of Sam Shepard–the dark, rugged genius of modern American theater and film, “the poet laureate of America’s emotional badlands” (Jack Kroll).
Sam Shepard was a tru- Author: Dowling, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1501195735
- Language: English
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
$35.00 Add to cartA delightful and majestic reckoning with the ascent of American fiction in the twentieth century through the prism of the under-known man who had an astonishing amount to do with it
Malcolm Cowley is- Author: Howard, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0525522050
- Language: English
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A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices
$24.00 Add to cartBringing together voices from across Turtle Island, a groundbreaking collection of letters from Indigenous writers, activists, and thinkers–to their ancestors, to future generations, and to themselve… [more below]
- Author: Sinclair, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0735250367
- Language: English
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The Durrells: The Story of a Family
$32.00 Add to cartA variously tragic tale of escapism and assimilation, Richard Bradford’s The Durrells explores the truth behind the image.
The Durrells are probably the most celebrated literary family of the 20th ce- Author: Bradford, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1448218098
- Language: English
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black work… [more below]
- Author: McCall, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0679740708
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father of Modern Fantasy
$17.00 Add to cartExplore the extraordinary life of J.R.R. Tolkien, the legendary creator of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, in this captivating literary biography that celebrates the father of modern fantasy and… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Portraits
- Author: Marshall, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1507224176
- Language: English
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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
$31.00 Add to cartDrawing on never-before-seen interviews, a richly researched, sweeping examination of one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century and her partner’s emergence from… [more below]
- Author: Wade, Francesca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982186011
- Language: English
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Becoming Earth
$18.95 Add to cartIn this posthumous collection of essays, Eva Saulitis meditates on mortality, the art of living fully, and her advancing illness and nearing death, confronting the waiting question without fear or sen
- Author: Saulitis, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597099112
- Language: English
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Philip Roth: Stung by Life
$28.00 Add to cartA landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life
In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Phili- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Zipperstein, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300251556
- Language: English
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Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
$29.00 Add to cartThe son of renowned author Joe McGinniss–celebrated for works like The Selling of the President and true crime blockbusters Fatal Vision and Cruel Doubt–delivers a raw and deeply moving memoir that … [more below]
- Author: McGinniss, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668004852
- Language: English
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Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and the National Portrait Gallery, London
$35.00 Add to cartA magnificent collection of portraits combined with selections from the archives of great writers
Telling the stories of the best-loved writers in English literature, Writers Revealed investigates thei
- Author: Ault, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1855145995
- Language: English
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The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford
$29.95 Add to cart“The full-throated biography fans have been yearning for.”
“McWilliams does a remarkable job connecting Stanford’s poetry with his personal life, particularly his l
–Kirkus Starred Review, April 2025- Author: McWilliams, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 686
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1682262790
- Language: English
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True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
$40.00 Add to cartThe first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern environmental movement, by a… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1524748315
- Language: English
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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel
$35.00 Add to cartThe award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth century.
“Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is,” said- Author: Wilson, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0374613206
- Language: English
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When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever
$30.00 Add to cartA sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.
The Stories of John Cheev- Author: Cheever, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0374600996
- Language: English
