Autobiography: literary books

Who is your icon? Today's most fascinating writers reveal a private view on a public person.  Read More >>

In the spring of 1972, Joyce Maynard, a freshman at Yale, published a cover story in The New York Times Magazine...  Read More >>

Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest...  Read More >>

Heartfelt, affecting, and wise, the essay collection The Road to San Giovanni offers Italo Calvino's reflections...  Read More >>

In the Man Who Left Too Soon, top crime fiction journalist Barry Forshaw gives us a fascinating insight into the...  Read More >>

The Dan Brown Enigma is an insightful look into the world of Dan Brown that will not only enthral and entertain,...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored ManJames Weldon Johnson1912The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927)...  Read More >>

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

One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection....  Read More >>

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While debating literature's greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has...  Read More >>

Every autumn, Kenny Porpora would watch his heartbroken mother scribble messages on balloons and release them into...  Read More >>

Ann Birstein's account of her adventures in the New York male literary scene as a woman and as a female writer....  Read More >>

In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist....  Read More >>

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Excerpt from The Days of My Life: An Autobiography I was going home from the village, and it was an autumn evening,...  Read More >>

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"""This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling memoir, packed with stories of the formative years of...  Read More >>

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The True Story of My Life from Hans Christian Andersen. Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales...  Read More >>

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

Celebrates Marianne M. Moates's insightful and detailed account of Truman Capote's early childhood in Alabama as...  Read More >>