Autobiography: literary books

With delectable wit and characteristic sensitivity, Smiley presents a fresh, illuminating take on the life of Charles...  Read More >>

Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2000.  Read More >>

Nancy Milford's portrait of the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda Fitzgerald.  Read More >>

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half...  Read More >>

Much of Zane and Dolly’s union was sustained largely by correspondence. Their letters—thousands of them—reveal the...  Read More >>

Through Margot Peters’s compelling biography, readers will discover Lorine Niedecker as a poet of spare and brilliant...  Read More >>

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The life and times of Rudolph von Bitter Rucker, original Cyberpunk, math and computer science professor, inventor...  Read More >>

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A memoir of the Golden Age of Hollywood and publishing by one of the leading American humorists.  Read More >>

With warmth, wit, and good cheer, Standiford shows how the unlikely success of ""A Christmas Carol"" revitalized...  Read More >>

A bio-bibliographic guide covering the lives and contributions of thirty-three journalists who endured physical...  Read More >>

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Biografias breves de las poetisas y escritoras cubanas mas conocidas en los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX nacional e internacionalmente....  Read More >>

This Collector Edition includes all new material, plus brief excerpts...  Read More >>

Published in Great Britain as Agatha Christie's murder in the making --T.p. verso.  Read More >>

His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and have sold millions of copies around the...  Read More >>

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.  Read More >>

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.  Read More >>

James Ferdinand Morton was one of H. P. Lovecraft's most learned and accomplished correspondents: the recipient...  Read More >>

Brian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" and ""Rip van Winkle""...  Read More >>

The larger-than-life life of an inimitable showbiz genius--singer, comedian, character actress, and bestselling...  Read More >>

At eighteen, the French poet Rimbaud proclaimed: ""My day is done; I'm leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my...  Read More >>

An expose of the controversial friendship between Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Fidel Castro....  Read More >>