Autobiography: literary books

Covering a career that spanned almost 60 years and many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book...  Read More >>

One of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time,Manchild in the Promised Landis a thinly fictionalized account...  Read More >>

One of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time,Manchild in the Promised Landis a thinly fictionalized account...  Read More >>

Using previously unpublished material on the murky relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, this sometimes...  Read More >>

A true story that chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a stalker.  Read More >>

A true story that chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a stalker.  Read More >>

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available...  Read More >>

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The story of how two fractious cousins reshaped the modern detective novel --Cover.  Read More >>

Captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America's most important aestheticians, critical theorists,...  Read More >>

Examines writers from a wide range of different countries, including Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges, China's Ha Jin,...  Read More >>

Authors covered include Sherman Alexie, Saul Bellow, Benjamin Franklin, Dashiell Hammett, Herman Melville, Dorothy...  Read More >>

Includes Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Alice Munro, and Roald...  Read More >>

First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by Short Books --T.p. verso.  Read More >>

Among twentieth century authors, P. L. Travers was by far the most productive and famous to hail from the British...  Read More >>

Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges frequent theme of a world where time,...  Read More >>

From one of our most astute observers, a haunting and unexpected investigation of the many voices he carries inside...  Read More >>

"""For those of us who have gone their own way, counter-culturally, [Patchen] may be, directly or indirectly, the...  Read More >>

""For copyright reasons, any images not belonging to the orginal author have been removed from this book. The text...  Read More >>

We have in the portfolio of du Maurier the epic of the drawing-room. Many of the Victorians, including the Queen,...  Read More >>

An exploration of the paradoxes and pleasures of masculinity. It takes us through the author's transition into identifying...  Read More >>

After Pusan, first published in 1995, is the third panel (alongside Blindfold Games and Coastwise Lights, also in...  Read More >>

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In this new, revised and updated edition of his comprehensive biography of Rider Haggard, D.S. Higgins uses both...  Read More >>

Here is a rare and fascinating collection of personal letters written by 18 of the thousands of British emigrants...  Read More >>