American - 20th century - Biography
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Q’s Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
$15.00 Read moreThis memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a… [more below]
- Author: Hanff, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140089365
- Language: English
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The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father
$20.00 Add to cartDuke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman — a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of … [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 19 1990
- ISBN10: 0679727523
- Language: English
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A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir
$8.99 Add to cartTold in her own words, A Girl from Yamhill is Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary’s heartfelt and relatable memoir.
For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, an
- Author: Cleary, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0062453319
- Language: English
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cartNominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Priz… [more below]
- Author: Middlebrook, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 27 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741828
- Language: English
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Elia Kazan: A Life
$32.95 Add to cartElia Kazan’s varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Art… [more below]
- Author: Kazan, Elia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 860
- Publish Date: August 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0306808048
- Language: English
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Cross Creek
$21.00 Add to cartCross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings–author of The Yearling–in the Florida backcountry.
Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a cla- Author: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 20 1996
- ISBN10: 684818795
- Language: English
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Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
$17.00 Add to cartNatalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method of writing that can take you beyond craft to the true source of creative power: The mind that is “raw, full of ener… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0553347756
- Language: English
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The Writing Life
$15.99 Add to cart“For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleag
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: 12-Nov-13
- ISBN10: 0060919884
- Language: English
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Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
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New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex we- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593328108
- Language: English
