Autobiography: literary books

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver chronicles her family's relocation to a community of organic food growers...  Read More >>

- A revealing self-portrait: In addition to his novels and short stories, John Cheever wrote a prodigious number...  Read More >>

Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges work is both timeless and touching,...  Read More >>

Samuel Becketts work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it pretentious...  Read More >>

D. H. Lawrences works were an attempt to revive some vivid, instinctual part of the human spirit that he felt had...  Read More >>

Through his art, James Joyce sought to reveal the radiance and meaning that lurks in the everyday world. Strathern...  Read More >>

Although best known as the wife of C.S. Lewis, Joy Davidman was an accomplished writer in her own right, with several...  Read More >>

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An award-winning poet highlights the vibrant history of his generation in a farewell to Vietnam, the chaotic sixties,...  Read More >>

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In this work of extraordinary charm and good humor, McMurtry recounts his life as both a reader and a writer, how...  Read More >>

When writer Margaret Rowswell made a life-changing decision to live in a different country and different culture,...  Read More >>

Darts through the author's memories of his childhood in Cork, his working life in London and the life he leads in...  Read More >>

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The long street rising and falling and rising again until its farthest crest high in the east seemed to brush the...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Hawes's passionate pursuit of Camus began with her college thesis. A biography-memoir, Camus, a Romance...  Read More >>

In this sequel to At the End of Darwin Road, Fiona Kidman takes us through the writing of over twenty more books,...  Read More >>

Published posthumously in 1964, ""A Moveable Feast"" remains one of Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic...  Read More >>

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With Authors & Artists for Young Adults teens have a source where they can discover fascinating and entertaining...  Read More >>

The final work from the brilliant and bestselling playwright and memoirist of The Smoking Diaries.  Read More >>

Helen Keller’s tenacious struggle to overcome being born blind and deaf — with the help of her inspired and inspiring...  Read More >>

Letters written 1979-1986. Biographical information and stories. Henry Miller wrote to Mrabet: ""The fact that you...  Read More >>