Literary Figures
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Lo Que Yo VI / What I Saw
$19.95 Read moreMemorias de la reconocida autora mexicana, salpicadas de nostalgia por el tiempo pasado y de reflexiones sobre la consciencia del presente.
Desde la casa donde naci?, los juegos de calle durante su n- Author: Esquivel, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1644736640
- Language: Spanish
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Pessoa: A Biography
$30.00 Read moreNearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted
- Author: Zenith, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092394
- Language: English
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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartNearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, t… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0156007045
- Language: English
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A Circle of Quiet
$21.99 Add to cartThe beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals.
Every so often I need OUT. . . . My speci- Series: Crosswicks Journals #1
- Author: L’Engle, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1504064461
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson.
Brazen, incisive, and outra- Series: Gonzo Letters #02
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0684873168
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$9.99 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0345514408
- Language: English
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Reasons to Stay Alive
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
“Destined to become a modern classic.” —Entertainment Weekly WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? At the age of 24, Matt Haig’- Author: Haig, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128728
- Language: English
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Education of a Felon: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartIn Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was–at seventeen–the
- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312280769
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
$45.00 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a who
- Author: Gordon, Lyndall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123230
- Language: English
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Jan Morris: A Life
$37.50 Add to cartA spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris.
When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was
- Author: Wheeler, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063304112
- Language: English
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Fire: From “A Journal of Love” the Unexpurgated Diary of Ana?s Nin, 1934-1937
$25.99 Add to cartIn this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-“that brilliant giant toy” –
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0156003902
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Political Life
$45.00 Read moreA major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings
The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he- Author: Callanan, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691227977
- Language: English
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A Room in Bombay: A Memoir
$29.99 Read moreIndian American author Manil Suri grew up in a large crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai) which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three Muslim families. Their single room, at times a refu
- Author: Suri, Manil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106387
- Language: English
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
$29.00 Read moreA fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King–all conducted by the first scholar to be given … [more below]
- Author: Bicks, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593736729
- Language: English
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Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir
$28.00 Read moreA luminous memoir in essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, who reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory.
“The painful thing about adolescence is that everything seems absolute, a- Author: Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593804937
- Language: English
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The Naked Civil Servant
$17.00 Add to cartA comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s
In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement–it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courag- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Crisp, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0141180536
- Language: English
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Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life
$32.00 Add to cartOne of the Best Memoirs and Biographies of 2025 at The Guardian A revealing look at the life and writing of the great modernist.
This biography explores the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one o- Author: Kimber, Gerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1836391625
- Language: English
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Mrs. Orwell
$29.99 Read moreEileen Blair, wife and partner of George Orwell, is brought out of her husband’s shadow in this riveting graphic novel, which follows the couples’ tireless campaign to expose difficult political truth
- Author: Chalupa, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1250877857
- Language: English
