Autobiography: literary books

In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. Accompanied only...  Read More >>

Catherine Reef has crafted a compelling biography that is an accessible introduction to the work of one of our most...  Read More >>

Albert Camus is best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings...  Read More >>

This autobiography stands out for its sincerity and its charm. Dario, father of modernism, is almost colloquial,...  Read More >>

Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university...  Read More >>

Robert Heinlein is generally considered one of the greatest American science fiction writers of the 20th century....  Read More >>

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

A beautiful new edition collecting together Gray's two early diaries published by Faber.  Read More >>

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The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary...  Read More >>

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Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876 and in his youth was a boundlessly energetic...  Read More >>

The long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling ‘The Liars’ Club’ and ‘Cherry’ – a memoir about a self-professed...  Read More >>

A comprehensive exploration of Dr. Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil, and those who dared to tell his...  Read More >>

A captivating biography of the eccentric author, filmmaker, and innovator L. Frank Baum, this work takes readers...  Read More >>

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In the tradition of ""The Professor and the Madman"" comes the charming, intriguing story of one man's obsessive...  Read More >>

Find biographical information on more than 130,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists...  Read More >>

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

An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological...  Read More >>

An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological...  Read More >>

An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological...  Read More >>

The highly acclaimed memoir of growing up with Dylan Thomas  Read More >>

This collection includes compelling conversations between acclaimed writer Walker and other significant literary...  Read More >>

A biography of the 18th-Century Irish writer, poet and playwright written for Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers...  Read More >>