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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James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Add to cartNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin
“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.”- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1612194001
- Language: English
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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
$23.00 Add to cart“bell hooks’s brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence.” –Gloria Steinem
With her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell ho- Series: Wounds of Passion #1
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 1, 1999
- ISBN10: 0805057226
- 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 Add to cartMaya 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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de Profundis
$9.95 Add to cart- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 8411723291
- Language: Spanish
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Ambivalence: An Education
$18.95 Read moreA coming-of-age memoir set in late-twentieth-century Dublin, recounting writer and critic Brian Dillon’s first encounters with pivotal writers in his life–Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benja… [more below]
- Author: Dillon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896231103
- Language: English
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Margaret Wise Brown
$19.99 Add to cart“Leonard S. Marcus… has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throroughly enchanted.”–Eric Carle
The authoritative and ench
- Author: Marcus, Leonard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0688171885
- Language: English
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Anita Brookner: Art and Life
$45.00 Read moreOne of our most brilliant biographers illuminates the life and work of an incomparable, extraordinary and fascinating novelist.
“Hermione Lee is a literary life-writer par excellence.” —The Atlantic- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0593321502
- Language: English
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Lionette: The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1914-1920
$40.00 Add to cartA charming and amusing view of Nin’s early life, from age eleven to seventeen; the self-portrait of an innocent girl who is transformed, through her own insights, into an enlightened young woman. “An … [more below]
- Series: Early Diary of Anais Nin #I
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: March 19 1980
- ISBN10: 0156523868
- Language: English
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The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 4 1944-1947: Vol. 4 (1944-1947)
$20.99 Add to cartThe author’s experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establishment, and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. “[Nin is] one of the … [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #04
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 1972
- ISBN10: 015626028X
- Language: English
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Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover
$27.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking reassessment of the relationship between Federico Garc?a Lorca and American poet Philip Cummings and its impact on the poems in Lorca’s landmark collection, Poet in New York.
In Augus- Author: Billingsley, Patricia A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369359
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
$21.99 Add to cart“A shapely experiment, mixing memoir with biography . . . [Elizabeth Bishop] fuses sympathy with intelligence, sending us back to Bishop’s marvelous poems.” — Wall Street Journal
Since her death in- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745635
- Language: English
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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
$27.00 Add to cartNamed one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award “Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century . . . a rive- Author: Johnson, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140283579
- Language: English
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Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited
$35.00 Read moreA biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Cormac McCarthy, from Tracy Daugherty, the New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist biography Larry McMurtry: A L
- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1250348722
- Language: English
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Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartIn a beautifully written–at times heartbreaking–memoir, Kittredge tells stories of his grandfather and father and recounts his own struggle as he progressed from farmer to writer. An honest reckonin… [more below]
- Author: Kittredge, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0679740066
- Language: English
