Autobiography: literary books

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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully: An Edgar Award Winner

Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old...

Author: Allen Kurzweil
ISBN: 9780062269492
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Fact Crime The true account of one boy’s lifelong search for his boarding-school...  Read More >>

You Never Know

You Never Know

Author: Claire Lorrimer
ISBN: 9781473633988
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Author Claire Lorrimer's fascinating autobiography: a rich tapestry of a life and remarkable career that has spanned...  Read More >>

The Child Poet

The Child Poet

Author: Homero Aridjis ,  Chloe Aridjis
ISBN: 9780914671404
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The Child Poet is an evocative memoir of a child's dreams, in a stunning translation by the author's daughter. An...  Read More >>

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of...

Author: Jim Grimsley
ISBN: 9781616205348
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley looks back at the federally mandated racial integration of his school...  Read More >>

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933

Author: John Haffenden ,  T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780571316342
Format: Hardback
$110.00

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Postcards from Here

Postcards from Here

Author: Penny Guisinger
ISBN: 9781925417050
Format: Paperback
$25.85

"""Postcards from Here"" is a capturing of a community, a harsh and beautiful place, a family, and the internal...  Read More >>

What Comes Next and How to Like It

What Comes Next and How to Like It

Author: Abigail Thomas
ISBN: 9781594139406
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Visiting Tom

Visiting Tom

Author: Michael Perry
ISBN: 9780061894466
Format: Paperback
$39.57

""Somewhere between Garrison Keillor's idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis's...  Read More >>

Ordinary Light: A Memoir

Ordinary Light: A Memoir

Author: Tracy K. Smith
ISBN: 9780345804075
Format: Paperback
$50.16

""A New York times notable book""--Back cover.  Read More >>

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way...

Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN: 9781551526003
Format: Paperback
$18.95

A transformative memoir by a queer disabled brown femme and abuse survivor: an intersectional, tragicomic story...  Read More >>

Letters to Véra

Letters to Véra

Author: Vladimir Nabokov ,  Olga Voronina
ISBN: 9780141192246
Format: Paperback
$32.99

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. From their meeting in 1921,...  Read More >>

An Incredible Talent for Existing: A Writer's Story

An Incredible Talent for Existing: A Writer's Story...

Author: Pamela Jane
ISBN: 9781941799215
Format: Paperback
$42.11

It is 1965, the era of love, light-and revolution. While the romantic narrator imagines a bucolic future in an old...  Read More >>

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare...

Author: Peter Jay Fernandez ,  Peter Jay Fernandez
ISBN: 9781419309434
Format: Audio
$105.57

Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's...  Read More >>

Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975

Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975

Author: David Lodge
ISBN: 9781784700539
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Revised and Expanded Edition: The breakthrough programme for conquering anxiety, depression, anger and obsessiveness

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Revised and Expanded...

Author: Dr Daniel G. Amen
ISBN: 9780349413358
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Highly readable and practical book by pioneering psychiatrist Dr Daniel Amen. The book offers a unique perspective...  Read More >>

Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings

Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others...

Author: Henry James ,  Philip Horne
ISBN: 9781598534719
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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Reasons to Stay Alive

Reasons to Stay Alive

Author: Matt Haig
ISBN: 9780143128724
Format: Paperback
$44.88

""Matt Haig's ... memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live""--...  Read More >>

My Father as I Recall Him

My Father as I Recall Him

Author: Mamie Dickens
ISBN: 9781530162598
Format: Paperback
$17.13

This loving account of Charles Dickens (1812-70) as a father, written by his favourite daughter Mamie, was published...  Read More >>

The Life of John Sterling

The Life of John Sterling

Author: Thomas Carlyle
ISBN: 9781530133550
Format: Paperback
$68.38

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

My 1964 The Year of Sex and Fiction

My 1964 The Year of Sex and Fiction

Author: Stephen Leon White
ISBN: 9781530131891
Format: Paperback
$34.19

I finished your book in two glorious hours...I truly loved it...know that I think it is a quite beautifully crafted...  Read More >>

Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget

Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget

Author: Sarah Hepola
ISBN: 9781473616103
Format: Paperback
$22.99

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER. A raw, honest, vivid memoir of one woman's struggle with addiction and recovery, for...  Read More >>

Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995

Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995...

Author: Iris Murdoch ,  Avril Horner
ISBN: 9780691170565
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Liar: A Memoir

Liar: A Memoir

Author: Rob Roberge
ISBN: 9780553448061
Format: Hardback
$68.64

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The Iceberg: A Memoir

The Iceberg: A Memoir

Author: Marion Coutts
ISBN: 9780802124609
Format: Paperback
$42.24

""First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.""  Read More >>

Fish Gotta Swim

Fish Gotta Swim

Author: Larry Kearney
ISBN: 9781941550670
Format: Paperback
$31.05

Fish Gotta Swim: A book equal to anything in the craft of American writing-Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage,...  Read More >>

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