Autobiography: literary books

7665 books were found.

Desolation Peak: Collected Writings

Desolation Peak: Collected Writings

Author: Jack Kerouac ,  Charles Shuttleworth
ISBN: 9781644282861
Format: Hardback
$49.99

'Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it.' In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked...  Read More >>

Govt Cheese a memoir

Govt Cheese a memoir

Author: Steven Pressfield
ISBN: 9798986164397
Format: Hardback
$76.53

"People who have read my books, particularly ""The War of Art"" and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey...  Read More >>

The Critic's Daughter Lib/E: A Memoir

The Critic's Daughter Lib/E: A Memoir

Author: Priscilla Gilman ,  Priscilla Gilman
ISBN: 9798212450393
Format: Audio
$52.77

An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of family and identity....  Read More >>

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

Author: Priscilla Gilman ,  Priscilla Gilman
ISBN: 9798212450409
Format: Audio
$52.77

“Beautiful: honest, raw, careful, soulful, brave, and incredibly readable.” —Nick Hornby An exquisitely rendered...  Read More >>

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

Author: Priscilla Gilman ,  Priscilla Gilman
ISBN: 9798212450416
Format: Audio
$52.77

“Beautiful: honest, raw, careful, soulful, brave, and incredibly readable.” —Nick Hornby An exquisitely rendered...  Read More >>

We Danced On Our Desks: Brilliance and backstabbing at the Sixties' most influential magazine

We Danced On Our Desks: Brilliance and backstabbing...

Author: Philip Norman
ISBN: 9781912914463
Format: Paperback
$43.96

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Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism

Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism...

Author: Joshua Logan Wall (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781421443799
Format: Paperback
$75.99

"""Focusing on five poets of the New York literary scene in the period between 1910 and 1940, the author shows that...  Read More >>

Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism

Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism...

Author: Joshua Logan Wall (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781421443782
Format: Hardback
$210.00

"""Focusing on five poets of the New York literary scene in the period between 1910 and 1940, the author shows that...  Read More >>

Lucky Mud and Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship

Lucky Mud and Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's...

Author: Christina Jarvis
ISBN: 9781644212257
Format: Hardback
$55.00

"A fascinating deep dive into Kurt Vonnegut's oeuvre and legacy, illuminating his unique perspective on environmental...  Read More >>

Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women’s Auto/Biographical and Testimonial Acts

Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women’s Auto/Biographical...

Author: Naïma Hachad
ISBN: 9781802077438
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women’s auto/biography in the last...  Read More >>

Memoirs of the Foreign Legion

Memoirs of the Foreign Legion

Author: Maurice Magnus ,  D H Lawrence
ISBN: 9781609622763
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Maurice Magnus was 39 years old when he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion to join the fight against Germany...  Read More >>

To The One I Love The Best

To The One I Love The Best

Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
ISBN: 9781782277934
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails....  Read More >>

Bedtime Story

Bedtime Story

Author: Chloe Hooper ,  Anna Walker
ISBN: 9781761106767
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction  Longlisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin...  Read More >>

Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an...

Author: Margaret Sullivan
ISBN: 9781250281906
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A trusted champion and critic of American journalism delivers the story of her lifetime.  Read More >>

Blood Too Bright: Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay

Blood Too Bright: Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent...

Author: Jerri Dell
ISBN: 9781958808061
Format: Paperback
$57.95

One hundred years ago, Bohemian author, Floyd Dell, began a passionate affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay. Both...  Read More >>

Souvenirs d'Egotisme: autobiographie et lettres inedites

Souvenirs d'Egotisme: autobiographie et lettres inedites...

Author: Stendhal
ISBN: 9782385087814
Format: Paperback
$50.16

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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

Author: Robert Pinsky (Boston University)
ISBN: 9780393882049
Format: Hardback
$44.95

An alternatingly funny and poignant memoir from “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (The New...  Read More >>

Her Finest Hour: One Teen's Personal War with Hitler's Germany

Her Finest Hour: One Teen's Personal War with Hitler's...

Author: Stephen Doster
ISBN: 9781504078221
Format: Paperback
$50.13

In this WWII memoir, a woman recounts her struggle to survive and serve her country in the Women’s Auxiliary Air...  Read More >>

Initiated: Memoir of a Witch

Initiated: Memoir of a Witch

Author: Amanda Yates Garcia
ISBN: 9781538763063
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this haunting, mystical memoir about finding meaning,...  Read More >>

Govt Cheese a memoir

Govt Cheese a memoir

Author: Steven Pressfield
ISBN: 9798986164366
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"People who have read my books, particularly ""The War of Art"" and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey...  Read More >>

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred...

Author: Elaine Showalter ,  English Showalter
ISBN: 9780349012292
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of...  Read More >>

One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995

One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995

Author: Helen Garner
ISBN: 9781922458933
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In this second volume of diaries from one of Australia's greatest writers, we see Garner in love; asking herself...  Read More >>

How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998

How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998

Author: Helen Garner
ISBN: 9781922458940
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of...  Read More >>

A Story Teller's Story

A Story Teller's Story

Author: Sherwood Anderson ,  Keith Szarabajka
ISBN: 9798212338660
Format: Audio
$84.35

"""These notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions,...  Read More >>

A Story Teller's Story

A Story Teller's Story

Author: Sherwood Anderson ,  Keith Szarabajka
ISBN: 9798212338653
Format: Audio
$110.75

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