Autobiography: literary books

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms,...  Read More >>

Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty....  Read More >>

An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors  Read More >>

Alice Walker provides insights into her attitude to a range of contemporary issues in this set of essays. At the...  Read More >>

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

In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal...  Read More >>

Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources...  Read More >>

Fueled by a powerful curiosity and the need to see, feel, and hear firsthand and close up, bestselling author Michael...  Read More >>

Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, political activist, and mystic, died in 1943 at a sanatorium in Kent,...  Read More >>

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Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition;...  Read More >>

Nin continues her debate on the use of drugs versus the artist's imagination, portrays many famous people in the...  Read More >>

This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist,...  Read More >>

When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's novels are a solid part of the literary canon and have never been out print. They have been made into...  Read More >>

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Pearl S. Buck's groundbreaking memoir, hailed by James Michener as spiritually moving, about raising a child with...  Read More >>

The seventieth anniversary edition of the first feminist biography of Virginia Woolf presents an insightful portrait...  Read More >>

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Jane Rule novel Desert of the Heart ( ) was groundbreaking novel in diversity publishing. She remains a pioneering...  Read More >>

From a genuine American Dostoevsky ( The Washington Post ): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the...  Read More >>

Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul Krassner are back in an updated and expanded...  Read More >>

No one thought Ben Mattlin would live past childhood.But that didn t stop...  Read More >>

A mind-tickling romp through the formation, fermentation, and fruition of the author's career as a poet in a country...  Read More >>