Literary Figures
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Into the Weeds
$20.00 Add to cartAn illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis
When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her unc- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279744
- Language: English
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In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig
$34.95 Add to cartA refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
In the Future of Yesterday delves into Stefan Zweig’s considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Je- Author: Görner, Rüdiger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1914979109
- Language: English
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
$20.00 Read moreAnna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature
Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Aus- Author: Beer, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0861546849
- Language: English
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A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt
$32.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
“Chakkalakal asks the reader to see the ‘First Negro Novelist’ as he saw himself: a writer and student of American letters at a time when the literary marketplace stru- Author: Chakkalakal, Tess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250287634
- Language: English
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Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me
$24.95 Add to cartA moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism.
Since James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his writing – including The Fi- Author: Field, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526175177
- Language: English
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Life Span
$19.95 Add to cartLIFE SPAN, a memoir in flash form, is the first book of nonfiction from award-winning fiction writer Molly Giles. A life-long resident of the Bay Area, Giles has crossed and recrossed the Golden Gate
- Author: Giles, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987719756
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
$21.00 Add to cartAn “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (Andr? Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became a… [more below]
- Author: Winkler, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982171278
- Language: English
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The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
$16.99 Add to cart“In this vibrant memoir, Obama-inaugural poet Richard Blanco tenderly, exhilaratingly chronicles his Miami childhood amid a colorful, if suffocating, family of Cuban exiles, as well as his quest to fi
- Author: Blanco, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0062313770
- Language: English
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
$35.00 Add to cartA Time Must-Read Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year
Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the l- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0374603278
- Language: English
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Writers Who Changed History
$40.00 Add to cartThis visual celebration of the world’s most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.
Writers Who Changed History places well-known writers in their histor- Series: DK History Changers
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0744096952
- Language: English
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Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers
$29.95 Add to cartThe first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after
- Author: McCarthy, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752483
- Language: English
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic–and controversial–young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me,- Author: Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668010909
- Language: English
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Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words
$29.95 Read moreAn in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United States
Tove Jansson achieved fame as the creator of the Moomins, beloved by gene
- Author: Westin, Boel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1517917298
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
$22.00 Read moreA New York Times notable book of 2023 A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize
“[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstrei- Author: Waldstreicher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321735
- Language: English
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
$32.00 Add to cartA scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created the… [more below]
- Author: Smyth, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605640
- Language: English
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own child… [more below]- Author: Jones, Brian Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1524742791
- Language: English
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Boccaccio: A Biography
$37.50 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.
Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” o- Author: Santagata, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226820947
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
$27.95 Add to cartThe first book in the ‘Biography of a novel’ series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece.
The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist maste- Series: Biography of a Novel
- Author: Hussey, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526176815
- Language: English
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E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America’s Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author
$32.95 Read moreUncover the legacy of E.D.E.N. Southworth, the trailblazing novelist whose daring heroines and progressive ideals captivated a generation, only to be forgotten by history–until now
E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: Neal, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089137
- Language: English
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My Lives: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“This is Edmund White’s best book by far, and a classic of emotional intelligence and generosity. . . . My Lives subsumes and concentrates all his other work.”–Daily Telegraph (London)
No one has been
- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0060937963
- Language: English
