Literary Figures
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Travels with Agatha Christie
$28.00 Add to cartIn Travels With Agatha Christie, the celebrated Poirot actor replicates an international expedition which Agatha Chirstie undertook herself in the 1920s. Travelling to the stunning landscapes of Canad… [more below]
- Author: Suchet, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1408723921
- Language: English
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Tradecraft: Writers on John Le Carr?
$45.00 Add to cartOriginal insights on John le Carr? by the people who worked with him, illuminating the storied writer’s working methods.
John le Carr? is one of the most significant political novelists in the English
- Author: Varese, Federico
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246487
- Language: English
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Small Town Author
$26.95 Add to cartMore than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited t
- Series: Voice in the American West
- Author: Erickson, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832546
- Language: English
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
$27.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed New York Times-bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
In the first biography of the iconic David Fo- Author: Max, D. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0147509726
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$32.00 Add to cartAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. … [more below]
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122053
- Language: English
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?mile Zola: A Determined Life
$38.00 Add to cartNuanced and insightful, a comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and times of the celebrated French literary polymath.
?mile Zola is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest writers, who- Author: Lethbridge, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390173
- Language: English
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The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain
$28.00 Add to cartThe arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos
Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak- Author: Jensen, Morten Høi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300233744
- Language: English
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Edgar Allen Poe: His Life and Legacy
$22.95 Add to cartThis biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American Literature who invented both the horror and detective genre, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant bu underpaid author, a t… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0815410387
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300285574
- Language: English
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The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
$16.99 Add to cartA tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method
Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0060565543
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Murder
$19.99 Add to cartThe new and updated 10 year anniversary edition
Winner of the Edgar, Agatha, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating crime-writing awards, this definitive account of the secretive Detection Club and its trail-bla
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0008708940
- Language: English
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Unmasking The Humourist: Alexander Gordon’s Lost Essays of Colonial Charleston, South Carolina
$27.95 Add to cartColonial America’s Greatest Literary Mystery Solved at Last
Unmasking The Humourist is a groundbreaking literary investigation that solves one of Colonial America’s greatest mysteries: Who wrote The Hu
- Series: The Wired Researcher
- Author: Kendrick, Brent L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886799156
- Language: English
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The Queen of Swords
$24.00 Add to cartIn what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera’s deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex l… [more below]
- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1949641872
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe: The Master of the Macabre
$17.00 Add to cartStep into the fascinating and gothic world of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of macabre, with this compelling literary biography that unravels his dark genius, iconic works, and enduring influence on got… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Portraits
- Author: Leland, Levi Lionel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1507224133
- Language: English
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson
$27.00 Add to cartThe country’s most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. … [more below]
- Author: Benfey, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115081
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: The Original Romance Novelist
$17.00 Add to cartTake a trip back in time to the Regency-era life of Jane Austen, one of literature’s most beloved novelists, with this captivating exploration of her works and the timeless themes of romance, family, … [more below]
- Series: Pocket Portraits
- Author: Saidi, Janet Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 150722415X
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Chiyo-Ni: The Life and Art of Japan’s Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master
$19.99 Add to cart“Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi are to be deeply thanked for having given us with such articulate care a poetry major in any language and in any place or time.” –Robert Creeley, poet
The Poetr- Author: Donegan, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 480531866X
- Language: English
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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
$27.00 Add to cart“Fiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
J.M. Coetzee’s lat- Series: Scenes from Provincial Life #1
- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014026566X
- Language: English
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Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
$23.00 Add to cartA chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked … [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0345467345
- Language: English
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Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard
$31.00 Add to cartA revelatory, magisterial biography of Sam Shepard–the dark, rugged genius of modern American theater and film, “the poet laureate of America’s emotional badlands” (Jack Kroll).
Sam Shepard was a tru- Author: Dowling, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1501195735
- Language: English
