Biography: literary books

For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday...  Read More >>

A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped...  Read More >>

Providing new angles and perspectives on the life of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated poets, Sylvia...  Read More >>

A unique and thought-provoking memoir detailing the fascinating career of a courtroom artist, allowing the reader...  Read More >>

Line Breaks: A Writing Life tells the story of George Galt's deeply religious childhood, the turmoil of his escape...  Read More >>

""A portrait of the fascinating, unusual and fruitful creative partnership between Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson""--...  Read More >>

A unique and thought-provoking memoir detailing the fascinating career of a courtroom artist, allowing the reader...  Read More >>

A close-up look at how J.D. Salinger's private life influenced his famous stories. J.D. Salinger remains one of...  Read More >>

I could dream in poetry, could summon words for spiritual experience, could name God in twelve ways and in ten times...  Read More >>

Not my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn't tell a friend. . . In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three,...  Read More >>

Fear is one of the most crippling emotion one can ever face. It stops you in your tracks; alters your way of thinking,...  Read More >>

I could dream in poetry, could summon words for spiritual experience, could name God in twelve ways and in ten times...  Read More >>

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An absorbing and innovative biography of Ireland’s national poet by a new literary talent.  Read More >>

This is the book that everyone knew, in Mark Twain's time, that he had to write. It is the story of his youth on...  Read More >>

"John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life...  Read More >>

While so many literary artists of earlier eras fall away, F. Scott Fitzgerald retains a hold on us. There is something...  Read More >>

De in 1940 in Utrecht geboren auteur, Anton Kruft, studeerde bedrijfskunde (Chicago) en geschiedenis (Utrecht)....  Read More >>

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER ""This book-abundant with love for both people and the land-is powerful medicine."" -Naomi...  Read More >>

From Alan Turing to Michelle Obama, Jeff Bezos to Sonia Sotomayor, Princeton Legends Alphabet presents the A to...  Read More >>

Horse Latitudes portrays Chris Wilson's descent into drug use, criminality, prostitution and prison. For the most...  Read More >>

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