Literary Figures
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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartNearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, t… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0156007045
- Language: English
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Pessoa: A Biography
$30.00 Add to cartNearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted
- Author: Zenith, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092394
- Language: English
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
$22.00 Add to cart*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book*
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York T- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250354587
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently
$20.99 Add to cart“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond…”
Henry David Th… [more below]- Author: Buell, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0197684262
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$9.99 Read moreMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0345514408
- Language: English
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Education of a Felon: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartIn Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was–at seventeen–the
- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312280769
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: The Mother of the Cozy Mystery
$17.00 Read moreEmbark on a journey through the life behind the mother of cozy mysteries like Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None with this captivating literary biography and stunning celebratio… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Portraits
- Author: West, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1507225385
- Language: English
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Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides
$17.95 Read moreAward-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice–in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.
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- Series: Vanguard
- Author: Williams, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888905845
- Language: English
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
$29.95 Add to cart“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”–Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentiet- Author: Bailey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0691290172
- Language: English
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A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections
$12.95 Add to cartJames Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward’s two sisters, Anna Lefroy a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen-Leigh, James Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540772
- Language: English
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
$21.00 Add to cartLangston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance — a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What’s less well known about Hughes is t… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727078
- Language: English
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Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art
$29.95 Read moreWith Virginia Woolf as a guide, the stories of eight radical 20th century women–wanderers, rebels, explorers, mentors–who made a life for themselves in spite of everything.
Everything that changed i- Author: Fernald, Anne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 0807021334
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$18.99 Read moreA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063211831
- Language: English
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
$29.99 Read moreAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Es
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 006224857X
- Language: English
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Memoirs
$18.95 Read moreWhen Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams’ candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug u… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0811216691
- Language: English
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Robert Louis Stevenson
$22.00 Read moreR. L. Stevenson’s life and writing, which reflected a restless mind in a global age.
This concise biography offers a fresh portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trott- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Norquay, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391684
- Language: English
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Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)
$19.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant book of recollection, one of America’s finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man’s sensibility. S… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0394759486
- Language: English
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Something to Declare
$19.99 Add to cartJulia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom. “Los Angeles Times” From… [more below]
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 161620558X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$25.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller – One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025- A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book – Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Ch… [more below]
- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0525561749
- Language: English
