Biography: literary books

23713 books were found.

Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers

Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers

Author: Rebecca McCarthy ,  Johanna Parker
ISBN: 9798874852412
Format: Audio
$105.57

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then...  Read More >>

Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers

Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers

Author: Rebecca McCarthy ,  Johanna Parker
ISBN: 9798874852429
Format: Audio
$121.31

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then...  Read More >>

Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries

Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries

Author: Sumana Roy
ISBN: 9780300266139
Format: Hardback
$34.95

An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world  Read More >>

Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York

Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom...

Author: Guy Trebay
ISBN: 9781524731977
Format: Hardback
$76.56

""This is a Borzoi book""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Lipton's, a Marijuana Journal: 1954-1955

Lipton's, a Marijuana Journal: 1954-1955

Author: Norman Mailer ,  J Michael Lennon
ISBN: 9781956763874
Format: Hardback
$87.09

The final previously unpublished work from two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting...

Author: Elizabeth Winkler
ISBN: 9781982171278
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A delightful romp through the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote...  Read More >>

Completely Kafka: A Comic Biography

Completely Kafka: A Comic Biography

Author: Nicolas Mahler ,  Nicolas Mahler
ISBN: 9781805331582
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing: at one time, he even said it satisfied him...  Read More >>

George Sand: True Genius, True Woman

George Sand: True Genius, True Woman

Author: Séverine Vidal ,  Kim Consigny
ISBN: 9781914224201
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A graphic biography of female novelist George Sand, whose life and work championed women’s rights, gender expression,...  Read More >>

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings...

Author: Jack Kerouac ,  Paul Marion
ISBN: 9798212234252
Format: Audio
$94.91

Gathers more than sixty previously unpublished stories and poems written by Kerouac between the ages of thirteen...  Read More >>

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings...

Author: Jack Kerouac ,  Paul Marion
ISBN: 9798212234245
Format: Audio
$105.47

Gathers more than sixty previously unpublished stories and poems written by Kerouac between the ages of thirteen...  Read More >>

Playboy: 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize-winning author of C+nto

Playboy: 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot...

Author: Constance Debré ,  Holly James
ISBN: 9781800819849
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In this prequel to the critical sensation Love Me Tender, Constance...  Read More >>

The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters

The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ,  Terence James Reed (Taylor Professor emeritus of the German language and literature, Taylor Professor emeritus of the German language and literature, Oxford University)
ISBN: 9780198901228
Format: Paperback
$14.95

This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's...  Read More >>

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

Author: Safiya Sinclair
ISBN: 9780008491321
Format: Paperback
$24.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book’...  Read More >>

C.S. Lewis and the Problem of God

C.S. Lewis and the Problem of God

Author: David Werther (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009283243
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element provides an understanding of C.S. Lewis's vocation, which is essential for reading his works well,...  Read More >>

George Orwell Studies Vol.8 No.2

George Orwell Studies Vol.8 No.2

Author: Richard Lance Keeble ,  Tim Crook
ISBN: 9781845498344
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Editorial Boom times for the Orwell Industry: A cause for celebration - by Richard Lance Keeble Papers George...  Read More >>

Uptown Local

Uptown Local

Author: Cory Leadbeater
ISBN: 9798874629328
Format: Audio
$176.85

A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his...  Read More >>

C.S. Lewis and the Problem of God

C.S. Lewis and the Problem of God

Author: David Werther (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009500395
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element provides an understanding of C.S. Lewis's vocation, which is essential for reading his works well,...  Read More >>

S�ren Kierkegaard: The biography of a Danish theologian and social critic

S�ren Kierkegaard: The biography of a Danish theologian...

Author: United Library
ISBN: 9789464903256
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Explore the life and philosophy of S�ren Kierkegaard, the pioneering Danish thinker whose ideas laid the groundwork...  Read More >>

Fyodor Dostoevsky: La biograf�a de un novelista ruso que escribi� sobre la clandestinidad, el crimen y el castigo

Fyodor Dostoevsky: La biograf�a de un novelista ruso...

Author: United Library
ISBN: 9789464903478
Format: Paperback
$31.65

"La vida de Fyodor Dostoevsky fue tan compleja y profunda como sus obras literarias. Nacido en 1821 en Rusia, enfrent�...  Read More >>

The Voyage of the Norman D.

The Voyage of the Norman D.

Author: Barbara Newhall Follett ,  Stefan Cooke
ISBN: 9780996243179
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Following the successful launch of her first book, The House Without Windows (Alfred A. Knopf, 1927), thirteen-year-old...  Read More >>

Written in Water: Keats's final Journey

Written in Water: Keats's final Journey

Author: Alessandro Gallenzi
ISBN: 9781846884719
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Now in paperback the first biography to provide a full and fresh account of Keat's journey to Naples and Rome until...  Read More >>

S�ren Kierkegaard: La biograf�a de un te�logo y cr�tico social dan�s

S�ren Kierkegaard: La biograf�a de un te�logo y cr�tico...

Author: United Library
ISBN: 9789464903263
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Descubre la vida y la filosof�a de S�ren Kierkegaard, el innovador pensador dan�s cuyas ideas sentaron las bases...  Read More >>

Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India

Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in...

Author: Anita Mathias
ISBN: 9781789434262
Format: Paperback
$36.93

A memoir of Mathias's rebellious Roman Catholic childhood in Jamshedpur, India. She escapes volatile fights with...  Read More >>

The Voyage of the Norman D.

The Voyage of the Norman D.

Author: Barbara Newhall Follett ,  Stefan Cooke
ISBN: 9780996243162
Format: Hardback
$60.59

Following the successful launch of her first book, The House Without Windows (Alfred A. Knopf, 1927), thirteen-year-old...  Read More >>

I Can Give You Anything But Love

I Can Give You Anything But Love

Author: Gary Indiana ,  Daniel Henning
ISBN: 9798874861209
Format: Audio
$105.57

The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature.  Read More >>

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