Literary Figures
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
$20.00 Add to cartA former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life–including Post O… [more below]
- Author: Sounes, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136974
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$22.00 Read moreIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
“A curiousl- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394486927
- Language: English
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Elegy for Iris
$23.00 Add to cartWith remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch–world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years–and poignantly describes the dim
- Author: Bayley, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312253826
- Language: English
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
$23.99 Add to cartWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets sh
- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 019983248X
- Language: English
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Bad Blood
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain–and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three genera… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sage, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0062080245
- Language: English
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Cracks in My Foundation: Bags, Trips, Make-Up Tips, Charity, Glory, and the Darker Side of the Story: Essays and Stories by Marian Keyes
$14.99 Add to cartGo further under the covers and stay in bed a little longer with Marian Keyes in this winning follow-up to her smash essay collection, Under the Duvet. Written in the witty, forthright style that has
- Author: Keyes, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0060787031
- Language: English
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
$25.00 Add to cartA LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster’s comprehensive, landmark biography of the great Americ
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250848547
- Language: English
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Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
$30.99 Add to cartDelmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined.
Delmore Schwartz was only tw- Author: Atlas, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539146
- Language: English
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
$15.99 Read more‘JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK’ CATHY RENTZENBRINK
‘A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND’ STYLIST, 50 UNMI- Author: Fowler, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1786484900
- Language: English
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Men We Reaped
$27.99 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 160819521X
- Language: English
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Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
$18.99 Add to cartA “compassionate, unflinching memoir” (David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas) by a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her i… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 145167659X
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$26.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254761
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
$14.95 Read more254 pages, 4 3/4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series
- Series: South Dakota Biography
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097779556X
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: Living in Fire
$22.95 Read more‘A scrupulous biography’ — Publishers Weekly
‘Fresh, incisive, and uplifting’ — Kirkus ‘If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read’ — Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Mon- Series: Revolutionary Lives
- Author: Mullen, Bill V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745338534
- Language: English
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Return to Paris: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartParis, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenag… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743439686
- Language: English
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Three Weeks with My Brother
$35.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.
As moving as his bestselling works of fi- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0446500100
- Language: English
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Tolstoy: A Biography
$35.99 Add to cartIn this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer’s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his litera
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393321223
- Language: English
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The Young Hemingway
$24.99 Add to cartMichael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America’s greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway’s persona: his father’s self-destructive battl
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0393317765
- Language: English
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
$23.99 Add to cartWorlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut
In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenect- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536538
- Language: English
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Pentimento
$21.99 Add to cartThe second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author.
In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unf- Series: Back Bay Books
- Author: Hellman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0316352888
- Language: English
