Autobiography: literary books

Charles Ritchie, one of Canada's most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his...  Read More >>

The celebrated author of The Mosquito Coast and Riding the Iron Rooster spins a masterful, comic novel that explores...  Read More >>

H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good...  Read More >>

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Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he...  Read More >>

This New York Times bestseller chronicles a beautiful and bygone era in the history of the world's most alluring...  Read More >>

A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.  Read More >>

Half my life ago, I killed a girl . So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his...  Read More >>

The author of China Boy describes the coming together of his parents- -his mother, the daughter of a forward-thinking...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fictionA Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006) National Post Best...  Read More >>

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One of Mr. Saramago's last books, and one of his most touching, ( New York Times ), this posthumous memoir of his...  Read More >>

For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most admired writers, penned letters to each...  Read More >>

Preserved in typed and hand-written notes and journal entries, letters and story sketches, Philip K. Dick's Exegesis...  Read More >>

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Packed with insightful interviews with Rankin, plotlines, story analysis, and a complete collector's guide, this...  Read More >>

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[Nabokov] has fleshed the bare bones of historical data with hilarious anecdotes and with a felicity of style that...  Read More >>

Seeing these horrors at first hand had a profound and lasting effect upon her, and made her determined to train...  Read More >>

Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"" and ""Anna Karenina"" are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. This title...  Read More >>

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A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate, and sometimes-painful story of how two brilliant freethinkers,...  Read More >>

A host of recollections - of Nabokov's comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father,...  Read More >>