Autobiography: literary books

Explores the parallel worlds of a prolific master of science fiction  Read More >>

This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.  Read More >>

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the prize-winning poet Ruth Bidgood, a writer who is best known...  Read More >>

Pauline was her husband s best editor and critic, and her wealthy family provided moral and financial support, including...  Read More >>

A fascinating collection of first-hand accounts of life in the time of Jane Austen (1775-1817), showing how social...  Read More >>

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The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history...  Read More >>

The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during...  Read More >>

On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, the author was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced...  Read More >>

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Enigmatic and explosive, Irving Layton was indisputably one of this country's most controversial literary figures....  Read More >>

Alexander Masters tripped over his first book subject on a Cambridge sidewalk, and the result was the multi-award-winning...  Read More >>

Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English...  Read More >>

Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was...  Read More >>

In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, T. S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work....  Read More >>

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A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored...  Read More >>

Monica Wood's moving memoir of the season in 1963 Mexico, Maine, as she, her mother, and her three sistershealed...  Read More >>

Much the way Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond captured New England, Sky Time in Gray's River captures the essence...  Read More >>

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott...  Read More >>

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This is a fascinating, evocative account of 19th-century London, so well known from Charles Dickens' much-loved...  Read More >>

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These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and...  Read More >>

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