Literary Figures
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
$17.95 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: An “exquisitely wrought memoir” about how “love can flourish even in the harshest climates”–for readers of The Liar’s Club and Running with Scissors (People).
“One of the b- Author: Scheeres, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092161
- Language: English
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Dante: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartAn insightful biography of Florence’s famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here w- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Lewis, R. W. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 014311641X
- Language: English
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After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal
$34.00 Add to cartWritten by Oscar Wilde’s only grandson, After Oscar recounts the gripping story of Wilde and his enduring legacy.
“Fascinating…A magnificent blend of scholarship and memoir and a vital contribution t
- Author: Holland, Merlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889661764
- Language: English
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Sydney Journals
$18.95 Add to cartA thirty-year diary that became a groundbreaking literary project.
Antigone Kefala has long been considered one of Australia’s best kept secrets. Born in Romania in 1931, she and her family were forced
- Author: Kefala, Antigone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893380255
- Language: English
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$20.00 Add to cartThirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she torm… [more below]
- Author: Milford, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760814
- Language: English
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The Journals of John Cheever
$21.00 Add to cartIn these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. – “A treasure-trove of riches.” —The New York… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cheever, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0307387259
- Language: English
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Ake: The Years of Childhood
$18.00 Add to cartA dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.
Ak? The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka’s boyhood before and d- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725407
- Language: English
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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, a Life
$33.99 Add to cartEmily Bront? (1818-1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It t
- Author: Lutz, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324037113
- Language: English
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
$17.99 Add to cartAccomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and
- Author: Weller, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060545844
- Language: English
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The Enchanted Places: A Childhood Memoir
$28.48 Add to cartChristopher Robin’s story in his own words.
- Author: Milne, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: July 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1509821899
- Language: English
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Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life
$30.00 Add to cartAn elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora
Growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marsha- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Washington, Mary Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0300253850
- Language: English
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
$45.00 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a who
- Author: Gordon, Lyndall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123230
- Language: English
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Jan Morris: A Life
$37.50 Add to cartA spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris.
When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was
- Author: Wheeler, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063304112
- Language: English
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Fire: From “A Journal of Love” the Unexpurgated Diary of Ana?s Nin, 1934-1937
$25.99 Add to cartIn this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-“that brilliant giant toy” –
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0156003902
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Political Life
$45.00 Add to cartA major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings
The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he- Author: Callanan, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691227977
- Language: English
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The Naked Civil Servant
$17.00 Add to cartA comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s
In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement–it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courag- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Crisp, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0141180536
- Language: English
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Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life
$32.00 Add to cartOne of the Best Memoirs and Biographies of 2025 at The Guardian A revealing look at the life and writing of the great modernist.
This biography explores the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one o- Author: Kimber, Gerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1836391625
- Language: English
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La Reina de Espadas / The Queen of Swords
$19.95 Add to cartPreseleccionado para National Book Award en la categoria de Literatura Traducida 2025
Una de las autoras m?s sugestivas de la literatura en espa?ol, ganadora del Premio Latin American Voices, recrea l- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 8426430775
- Language: Spanish
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Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
$32.50 Add to cartAn account of Woolf’s life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. “Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose…make this a most valuable and pleasurable book” (Publishers… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #03
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 14 1981
- ISBN10: 0156260387
- Language: English
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Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
$16.95 Add to cartAllen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Hanna Arendt, Norman Mailer, and Lillian Hellman -among the other things these writers and intellectuals all had in common is Norman Podhoretz. With them Pod… [more below]
- Author: Podhoretz, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554171
- Language: English
