Literary Figures
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Memoirs
$18.95 Read moreWhen Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams’ candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug u… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0811216691
- Language: English
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Robert Louis Stevenson
$22.00 Read moreR. L. Stevenson’s life and writing, which reflected a restless mind in a global age.
This concise biography offers a fresh portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trott- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Norquay, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391684
- Language: English
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The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting
$17.95 Add to cartA fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the obsessive world of collecting (and stamps) by maverick historian and cult writer Robert Irwin.
“[A] delightful mishmash of quotations, digressions, obs- Author: Irwin, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1805337769
- Language: English
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The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartA VULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony.” -Robert Jones, Jr. “White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human.” -John Irving I’m at an age when writers are suppo- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1639739319
- Language: English
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Before I Forget: A Memoir (and Then Some)
$20.00 Add to cart“A writer’s vivid recollection of an age when every day could be a dream.” Kirkus Reviews
From humble beginnings in a fractured family, Aram Saroyan, author of the most controversial one-word poem in h
- Author: Saroyan, Aram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1953103685
- Language: English
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Adrift in the South
$18.99 Read moreWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began a decade spent moving between the garment mills and electronics fac
- Author: Hai, Xiao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1738536262
- Language: English
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Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)
$19.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant book of recollection, one of America’s finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man’s sensibility. S… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0394759486
- Language: English
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Something to Declare
$19.99 Add to cartJulia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom. “Los Angeles Times” From… [more below]
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 161620558X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$25.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller – One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025- A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book – Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Ch… [more below]
- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0525561749
- Language: English
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The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cart“Inspiring, exquisitely researched, and deftly written. I loved it.” –Elizabeth Gilbert, author, Eat, Pray, Love
In this powerful new biography, the legendary fin-de-si?cle adventuress Isabelle Eberha
- Author: Jaouad, Hédi A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1953103723
- Language: English
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The Coalwood Way
$10.99 Add to cartIn this “irresistible” memoir “as compelling and rousing as a NASA liftoff” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys takes us deeper into the soul of… [more below]
- Series: Coalwood #2
- Author: Hickam, Homer
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0440237165
- Language: English
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Sky of Stone: A Memoir
$8.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys and The Coalwood Way transports us back to his West Virginia hometown and the summer that nearly destroyed the close-knit community in this “bea… [more below]
- Series: Coalwood #3
- Author: Hickam, Homer
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0440240921
- Language: English
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The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
$33.00 Read moreA biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of… [more below]
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 0593473655
- Language: English
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Dr Johnson and MR Savage
$9.99 Add to cartA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0007204558
- Language: English
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Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
$16.99 Add to cartSpiritual and autobiographical reflections on the author’s seminary days, early ministry, and writing career.–James Merrill, author of Changing Light at Sandover
- Author: Buechner, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 1991
- ISBN10: 0060611820
- Language: English
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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
$30.00 Add to cartIncisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser.
Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly bel- Author: Looser, Devoney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250361338
- Language: English
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Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.
Ninety c
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0008380163
- Language: English
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The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom
$30.00 Add to cartA selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired
Bringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0300283830
- Language: English
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Voices
$19.95 Add to cartJames Joyce, Viriginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and a multitude of other artistic titans are encountered and ventriloquized in this bitingly funny (and mostly fictitious) memoir by a nearly forgotten … [more below]
- Author: Prokosch, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896230120
- Language: English
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Baldwin: A Love Story
$23.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PEN/ JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025
AN ATLANTIC TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025
AN INSTA- Author: Boggs, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 125043775X
- Language: English
