Autobiography: literary books

7631 books were found.

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas...

Author: Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780812980318
Format: Paperback
$39.60

The noted writer-entertainer continues her autobiography, recounting her passage into adulthood and the white world,...  Read More >>

The Heart of a Woman

The Heart of a Woman

Author: Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780812980325
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Reissued, The Heart of a Woman is the 4th volume in the Maya Angelou autobiography. Here she is immersed in the...  Read More >>

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author: Maya Angelou ,  Oprah Winfrey
ISBN: 9780345514400
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in racially...  Read More >>

Conversations with Julian Barnes

Conversations with Julian Barnes

Author: Vanessa Guignery ,  Ryan Roberts
ISBN: 9781604732030
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Collects eighteen interviews, conducted over nearly three decades, by journalists and correspondents throughout...  Read More >>

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author: Maya Angelou, Dr.
ISBN: 9780808510574
Format: Hardback
$45.41

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Author: Anonymous ,  Frank Harris
ISBN: 9781441703323
Format: Downloadable audio file
$131.87

As editor of The Fortnightly Review , Harris published some of Wilde's greatest work and knew Wilde personally...  Read More >>

Heartaches and Blessings While Parenting My Mom

Heartaches and Blessings While Parenting My Mom

Author: Letty P Oveson
ISBN: 9781606938027
Format: Hardback
$59.40

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Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway

Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway

Author: James Plath
ISBN: 9781596525160
Format: Hardback
$105.47

When Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him “one of this epoch’s great...  Read More >>

Come Sit in My Garden

Come Sit in My Garden

Author: Marilynn Van Well
ISBN: 9781441506917
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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Beautiful People: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints

Beautiful People: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints...

Author: Simon Doonan
ISBN: 9780743267052
Format: Paperback
$39.60

In this subversively funny memoir, Doonan--bestselling author, style arbiter on national television, and window...  Read More >>

Thy Neighbor's Wife

Thy Neighbor's Wife

Author: Professor Gay Talese
ISBN: 9780061665431
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The provocative report on American sexuality that shocked the world when it was first published in 1981, Gay Talese's...  Read More >>

Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken

Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken

Author: William Manchester ,  Anthony Heald
ISBN: 9781433274763
Format: Mixed media product
$184.77

This fine biography of H. L. Mencken tells of how he rose to his unique position as comic genius and pre-eminent...  Read More >>

Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft ,  Tone Brekke (Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo)
ISBN: 9780199230631
Format: Paperback
$22.95

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book...  Read More >>

Turnings: Lyric Poems Along a Road

Turnings: Lyric Poems Along a Road

Author: Donald R Fletcher
ISBN: 9781432738495
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Turnings: Lyric Poems Along a Road

Turnings: Lyric Poems Along a Road

Author: Donald R Fletcher
ISBN: 9781432738501
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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Nothing to be Frightened Of

Nothing to be Frightened Of

Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780099523741
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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La Suma de Los Dias

La Suma de Los Dias

Author: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780061551888
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Es una historia de amor entre un hombre y una mujer maduros, que han salvado juntos muchos escollos, y de una familia...  Read More >>

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Author: Philip Gabriel ,  Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780099532538
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed...  Read More >>

Life On The Mississippi

Life On The Mississippi

Author: Mark Twain ,  Justin Kaplan (College of Holy Cross)
ISBN: 9780451531209
Format: Paperback
$12.99

At once a romantic history of a mighty river and an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, here...  Read More >>

Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

Author: Ferdinand Mount
ISBN: 9780747596479
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last...  Read More >>

In Other Words: Tales of Paris and Language

In Other Words: Tales of Paris and Language

Author: Laurie Graham
ISBN: 9781595713704
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781604506686
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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Goldsmith

Goldsmith

Author: William Black
ISBN: 9781604506747
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Innocently to amuse the imagination in this dream of life is wisdom. So wrote Oliver Goldsmith; and surely among...  Read More >>

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

Author: Linda Lear
ISBN: 9780547238234
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world...  Read More >>

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