Literary Figures
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Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
$18.95 Add to cartIn this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its G… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 168137921X
- Language: English
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
$21.00 Add to cart
A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be re… [more below]- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0525432949
- Language: English
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Jane Austen in 41 Objects
$40.00 Add to cartA new kind of biography on Jane Austen examining the objects she encountered during her life alongside newer memorabilia inspired by the life she lived.
More than two hundred years after Jane Austen’s
- Author: Sutherland, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246266
- Language: English
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Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century–an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce
- Author: Leader, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248392
- Language: English
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
$32.00 Add to cartDrawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard, is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bes
- Author: Kushins, C. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 63306867
- Language: English
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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O’Brien
$37.00 Add to cartThe first literary biography of Tim O’Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original int
- Author: Vernon, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250358493
- Language: English
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Malaparte: A Biography
$39.95 Add to cartA sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artist… [more below]
- Author: Serra, Maurizio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378701
- Language: English
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I Tell You Now (Second Edition): Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
$19.95 Add to cartI Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and … [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Krupat, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293143
- Language: English
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Sculptor’s Daughter
$19.99 Add to cartTove Jansson s memoirs of her early years, filled with joy, exuberance, and the satisfaction of being with an abundance of photographic illustrations.
The excitement of being alive and savoring the goo
- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 08 2020
- ISBN10: 006233462X
- Language: English
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After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
$29.99 Add to cartA moving and penetrating memoir of a life in biography from the Pulitzer Prize winner and “gifted storyteller” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker).
Megan Marshall’s innovative books, including The Peabody
- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0618684182
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$45.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
Before he was Mark Twai- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 525561722
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Life Album
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of th- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300262205
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
$21.99 Add to cartThis “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) from New York Times bestselling author James Patterson is a collection of riveting stories celebrating the heroic efforts of the people who are on the… [more below]
- Series: Heroes Among Us #4
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538758989
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi.
Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is exp- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140390502
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography
$29.95 Read moreA comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author
“There never was a good biography of a novelist,” F. Sco
- Author: Salmose, Niklas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915856
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
$49.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking exploration of one of America’s most iconic and misunderstood authors
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinati- Author: Kopley, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0813952239
- Language: English
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The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories
$16.99 Add to cart“Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras.” –Andrew Martin, The New York Times
Best-known- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 4805318341
- Language: English
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Hakim Bey Real and Unreal
$17.95 Add to cartFor a man made of words, it is perversely perfect that none can capture the essence of Hakim Bey. Anarcho-Sufi wiseman, scholar of the unknowable, miraculous monologist, psychedelic shaman: all of thi
- Author: Metzger, Th
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1944651276
- Language: English
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
$28.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0861542932
- Language: English
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A Man of Modern Letters
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #2
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065282
- Language: English
