Literary Figures
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February House
$21.99 Add to cartFebruary House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers — and the country’s best-known burlesque performer — in a hous
- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2006
- ISBN10: 061871197X
- Language: English
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
$30.00 Add to cartA raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and fo… [more below]
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668094711
- Language: English
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
$16.00 Add to cartBastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Thi… [more below]
- Author: Allison, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0452273404
- Language: English
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Goethe: His Faustian Life – The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem That Made Our World
$35.00 Add to cart** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR **
‘Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.‘ – Frances Wilson, The Telegraph
‘Exuberant and wide-ranging’ – Literary Review
‘Passion- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1472994868
- Language: English
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Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between m… [more below]
- Author: McFadden, Bernice L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184971
- Language: English
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Origins of a Story: 202 True Inspirations Behind the World’s Greatest Literature
$24.95 Add to cartFor readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world’s greatest literature!
Did you know Lennie from Of Mice an
- Author: Grogan, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1604337516
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$28.00 Add to cartA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator a… [more below]
- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602790
- Language: English
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Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
$49.95 Add to cartThe incredible story of the first director of the Morgan Library: a visionary Black woman who walked confidently in an early 20th-century man’s world of wealth and privilege
When J.P. Morgan’s personal
- Author: Da Costa Greene, Belle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811353
- Language: English
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Conundrum
$16.95 Read moreOne of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek).
“A profound… [more below]- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 1590171896
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
$17.99 Add to cartBill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship–updated with a new i
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0062564625
- Language: English
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Sun and Steel
$38.65 Add to cartIn this fascinating document, one of Japan’s best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of wri
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: January 02 1970
- ISBN10: 6159424645
- Language: English
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
This “lively and important portrait of a true literary revolutionary” (Los Angeles Times) explores Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic–and co- Author: Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1668010917
- Language: English
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The Invention of Charlotte Bront?: A New Life
$29.95 Add to cartA profoundly moving, ground-breaking biography that challenges the established narrative to reveal the Bront? family as they’ve never been seen before.
Charlotte Bront? had a life as seemingly dramati- Author: Watson, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 163936935X
- Language: English
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Baldwin: A Love Story
$36.00 Add to cartDrawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relati
- Author: Boggs, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0374178712
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$29.99 Add to cartA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0063212072
- Language: English
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She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music
$29.95 Add to cartJane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books o… [more below]
- Author: Dooley, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1526170108
- Language: English
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
$18.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway’s dangerous secret life in espionage
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award
“IMPORTANT” (Wall Street
- Author: Reynolds, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062440144
- Language: English
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Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
$40.00 Read moreRobert E. Howard (1906-1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, more popularly referred to as Conan the Barbarian. However, he also wrote across a wide array of genres
- Author: Oliver, Willard M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419633
- Language: English
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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
$30.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created.
See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters t- Author: Conrad, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399409190
- Language: English
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Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
$16.00 Read moreWhat Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgl… [more below]
- Author: Broyard, Anatole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 24 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781269
- Language: English
