Literary Figures
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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartIn this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented nov
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0060505869
- Language: English
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award
What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever l
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060088745
- Language: English
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Finding Fish: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartBaby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physica… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Antwone Q.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0060007788
- Language: English
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A Very Easy Death: A Memoir
$15.00 Add to cartA Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied
- Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Series #0000
- Author: de Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0394728998
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman: A Life
$18.99 Add to cart“Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking–hugely human, enormously attractive.” —Newsweek
A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America’s greatest poet–his genius, his pas
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kaplan, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0060535113
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
$19.99 Read more‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER
Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer
A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021
Bar
- Author: Byrne, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0008322244
- Language: English
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Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing
$27.95 Read moreScribners tells the inside story of five generations–over 150 years–at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner’s Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York
- Author: Scribner III, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1493079972
- Language: English
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
$32.99 Read moreWinner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagg
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0008192421
- Language: English
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
$15.00 Add to cartVivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments–hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pages–has been selected by the publication’s book criti
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 1, 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529965
- Language: English
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The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
$29.95 Read moreA New York Times Critics’ Pick for 2023
“Like George Weidenfeld himself, Thomas Harding’s accomplishment is substantial, lively, and full of interest. The Maverick is a fine biography.” –Henry Kissin- Author: Harding, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364455
- Language: English
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Running with Scissors
$20.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusion- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242227X
- Language: English
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The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras
$28.95 Read moreA fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston’s life that reimagines her complicated legacy.
Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes
- Author: Green, Sharony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1421446669
- Language: English
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Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love
$19.95 Read moreBefore he was the world’s foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and cel… [more below]
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1618909622
- Language: English
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the acclaimed author of Signal Fires and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test, an explorati
- Author: Shapiro, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28, 2020
- ISBN10: 0525434038
- Language: English
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
$25.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths a… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: September 28, 2021
- ISBN10: 030795126X
- Language: English
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Toy Fights: A Boyhood
$27.95 Add to cartDon Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of “an infinite sensitivity to the world” (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent yo
- Author: Paterson, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093625
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$6.95 Add to cartAt once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain’s early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531205
- Language: English
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Vergil: The Poet’s Life
$26.00 Read moreA biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid
“Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy ‘ancient’ into our contemporary . . . p- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256612
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.
Bill… [more below]- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2007
- ISBN10: 0767919378
- Language: English
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Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart“A rare triumph” (The New York Times Book Review), this powerful memoir about the divergent paths taken by two brothers is a classic work from one of the greatest figures in American literature: a ref… [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1982148756
- Language: English
