Autobiography: literary books

7620 books were found.

Performing Flea

Performing Flea

Author: P.G. Wodehouse ,  P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781841591919
Format: Hardback
$24.99

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Diary 1954

Diary 1954

Author: Leopold Tyrmand ,  Anita Shelton
ISBN: 9780810129511
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on...  Read More >>

The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

Author: James Dempsey
ISBN: 9780813049267
Format: Hardback
$71.50

In The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer James Dempsey looks beyond the public figure best known for publishing the...  Read More >>

Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas

Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas

Author: Jeffrey B. Leak
ISBN: 9780820328706
Format: Hardback
$116.03

The long-awaited biography of an unsung literary legend who informed the major 1960s cultural and political movements:...  Read More >>

Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

Author: Czeslaw Milosz ,  Catherine S. Leach
ISBN: 9780141392288
Format: Paperback
$24.99

After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book,...  Read More >>

Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son

Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son

Author: Gary Scharnhorst
ISBN: 9780252038341
Format: Hardback
$80.99

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Ghost Image

Ghost Image

Author: Herve Guibert ,  Robert Bononno
ISBN: 9780226132341
Format: Paperback
$36.95

Features sixty-three short essays. Both a memoir and an exploration of the artistic process, this book not only...  Read More >>

Tourist in the Pure Land

Tourist in the Pure Land

Author: Kate Green
ISBN: 9780985981846
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Kate Green's much anticipated new collection, clear-sighted poems of love, loss, and feminist sensibility.  Read More >>

About Alice

About Alice

Author: Calvin Trillin
ISBN: 9781299076013
Format: Electronic book text
$118.40

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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the...

Author: Tiziano Terzani
ISBN: 9781299004696
Format: Electronic book text
$152.06

An account of the travels of Tiziano Terzani, a news correspondent who travelled only by rail, road and sea, having...  Read More >>

Lives of the Poets

Lives of the Poets

Author: Professor of Poetry Michael Schmidt (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781299209503
Format: Electronic book text
$166.32

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the...  Read More >>

Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater

Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater

Author: Seth Lerer
ISBN: 9780226142234
Format: Paperback
$27.95

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Nature and Walking

Nature and Walking

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson ,  Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9781299563001
Format: Electronic book text
$36.96

Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American...  Read More >>

Missing: A Memoir

Missing: A Memoir

Author: Lindsay Harrison
ISBN: 9781451611960
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays

Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays

Author: Megan Stielstra
ISBN: 9781940430102
Format: Electronic book text
$42.11

Insightful, compassionate, gutsy, and heartbreaking personal essays exploring the messy, maddening beauty of adulthood...  Read More >>

Something about the Author

Something about the Author

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781414491691
Format: Hardback
$377.78

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The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur

The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur

Author: Arthur Hoyle ,  James M. Decker
ISBN: 9781611458992
Format: Hardback
$47.99

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A Clip of Steel: A Picaresque Autobiography

A Clip of Steel: A Picaresque Autobiography

Author: Thomas Blackburn ,  Julia Blackburn
ISBN: 9781939140937
Format: Paperback
$31.02

'The poet Thomas Blackburn faced his inner darkness with a savage courage and wrote exquisite poetry exploring the...  Read More >>

You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body

You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body

Author: Peggy Shinner
ISBN: 9780226105277
Format: Hardback
$42.95

A collection of essays about the body: the author's own body, female and Jewish; those of her parents, the bodies...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781499149685
Format: Paperback
$18.45

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Choking in Fear: a memoir about the Hollandsburg murders

Choking in Fear: a memoir about the Hollandsburg murders...

Author: Mike McCarty
ISBN: 9781497522848
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Small-town Indiana seems the perfect place for a boy to grow up, and Mike McCarty loved his life in Waveland as...  Read More >>

Fielding

Fielding

Author: Austin Dobson
ISBN: 9781499125771
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Henry Fielding (1707–54), novelist and dramatist, is the subject of this biography by the poet Austin Dobson (1840–1921),...  Read More >>

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

Author: Edmund Gosse
ISBN: 9781499125719
Format: Paperback
$18.45

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Federal Plea Agreements in Spanish: A Soul to Keep

Federal Plea Agreements in Spanish: A Soul to Keep

Author: Daniel Storm
ISBN: 9780989974455
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This is the book for anyone who faces federal charges or prectices law in federal courts.  Read More >>

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography

Author: Jeffrey Meyers
ISBN: 9780062316950
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Meyers emphasizes Fitzgerald's alcoholism, Zelda's illnesses and her doctors, Fitzgerald's love affairs both before...  Read More >>

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